Slowed Down, Finally

So it's Saturday and the busy week is behind me for a couple days, of course with the chance of another busy week looming in the foreground. No worries though, nothing I can do about that now so I plan to enjoy the weekend time away from work and with my family.

Cold

So kiddo was finally over both her fever and her diaper rash from a couple weeks back only to start getting a little bit of one again Wednesday. Nothing too severe at this point, more annoying and a little stingy I think when we clean her up after a diaper change. Otherwise the ointment and keeping it clean is doing the most good. Not to mention soaking in the bath, she loves her bath time!

She has had a bit of a cold that has spiked up over the past couple days as well. We were worried it might be croup because of the way it started out and the cough she had/has. Thankfully it's mostly in her sinuses and a tad in her chest so she should be in the clear as far as anything other than the common cold is concerned, whew!

More than likely she will start feeling better just in time for it to be Monday, her go back to school and be well for a couple days only to pick up something else from one of the other kids and we will start the routine of healing her up once again. From what other parents tell us as well as doctors and the daycare teachers - it's basically the way it goes for many years.

I think we need to be happy that we are healthy and are able to take care of her when she feels crappy. If we were catching the bugs as well that would really suck. Although I would take those colds from her in a heartbeat if I could. Not sure about the diaper rash, that does not sound like much fun. Okay, yes I would take that from her as well.

Cycling

So it's super windy out but I was still able to go for a nice bike ride. I basically just kinda wandered around for almost an hour total and rode just over 20 miles.

Tonight it's supposed to rain or sometime tomorrow according to the local weather guessers. As windy as it is outside I think they may be on to something, rain clouds might be blowing in.

I love the rain, but at the same time it really sucks because I still have not accomplished my 80 mile, or further, ride this month as planned and I am running out of time. I have to either get it done tomorrow or next weekend at the latest. Otherwise I am screwed for this month and will have to try again next month which will be a bitch with the weather getting colder and it getting dark out so much earlier.

So yea, I have three days to do it otherwise there is no-way I can get the miles needed for the September challenge. That will suck because I really want to be able to order the achievement t-shirt. It was so cool accomplishing the challenge last month and being eligible to order the special jersey for the month of August.

Oh well, all I can do is try my best and see if I can manage to get the miles in. The biggest thing is that I need to get up and actually get my ass out of the house rather then farting around in the morning going through email or surfing the internet for crap that I can do after my ride - the internet is not going anywhere.

So tomorrow I need to remember this Little tidbit and see what I can do. The only thing I can really stop me tomorrow that is out of my control is the weather so we will see. More on that tomorrow.

Photo: When we went to visit my step-mom on Wednesday at the hospital after her surgery we made a quick pit-stop at the bathrooms. While waiting for Cicely I snapped a photo of this sign because I knew it would come in handy one day when I did not have a photo for the day.