Well, last week I spent most of my energy working the emergency issue with another program I got asked to work for my dept. Short story was that I got things done, tested, documented, reported to the dept and impounded into the database by COB on friday. It was tough work but I did good, IMHO, and I think the dept and the program is happy. We did a lot in a very short amount of time. So by Friday I was exhausted. All I wanted on friday night was a good night's sleep.

Thursday we had the news that Dorinda passed away. That pretty much dampened my enthusiasm for anything projecty which is exactly opposite on how I'm sure she would want things to be. She was a bright star in the sky for us. A smile that could light up a room and one of the best huggers ever. I'm sad for her, her family and sad with myself for not remembering when I saw her last. I just don't remember and that sucks.

So wearily we went to bed on friday night after I'm not sure what. Seriously I'm so brain fried I don't even know what we had for dinner. We slept in...well, Mel slept in till 8. I got up with Benton about 7 and that was good. He was hungry and we had to pack for MEF. We got on the road about 45 mins later than we planned but we made it in time to get checked in, change clothes and get to circle. Unfortunately, that didn't involve lunch so we starved through court and left after I made my announcement for the QPAS and then back to our room to eat the wonderful burritos that public_shaylan had gotten us. Seriously, best burrito since the one I had right after Benton was born.

Got back down to the hall to find out that they were setting up for the feast. Oh, well, I was still kinda hungry. So, I got the QPAS running and then got plates out and had the feast. It was really well done by the hotel. The food was fresh, hot and savory. Plenty of it to go around and the fact that they got two sets of serving lines was fabulous. The meat balls were heaven. Things were weird with our timing all day. I had to leave to head back up and feed benton, the knights circle ran at a weird time and over long and I didn't get to dance until well after things were done.

Course when I was up with Benton getting dressed to go dance and mel was in Knight's circle. My son got adventurous. He decided to test gravity and fell off the bed. I was going back and forth between the room and the bathroom and I heard him playing with the bag of wipes and as I ran out I heard a very sickening thunk and he started wailing. I have to say I felt like the worst mom in the world. I picked him up from where he was all turtled up on the floor. He was screaming and I didn't see any blood but I grabbed the hotel key and ran downstairs with him to find Tym or Finneas. Found Finneas and after an examination deemed him shook up but just fine. I think I was more hurt and upset than the boy was. I got him snuggled up with dverning and got myself calmed down more and got my veils back on and back down to the hall. Man I felt awful and just waited until mel got out of circle to tell him. I'm pretty sure if there had been blood I would have barged in on the circle for Sir Alfred. But it was okay. I wasn't really okay for a while but I finally calmed down, got reassured by lots of people and finally got the boy back up to the room with daddy and fed for bed.

Thanks to Patrick the Butcher we had drummers come back out at 10pm and I danced hard for 45 mins before just sitting down. My body wasn't happy with me and I knew it and pushing through it was not in my best interest. I had a wonderful time chatting with visiting Calontiry who happen to be my niece's roommates. (its a very, very small world at times). I also owe a guy from Mons a special thank you for buying me a margarita...I needed it and didn't have any cash and the bar that would charge to the room was closed. I danced and I need to practice more. I was very inspired by one of the gals there and Ari and I's commentary about how awesome she was which involved the phrase "damn that is hot" made Bredan stop drumming since we distracted him. She was awesome with the best isolations I have seen in a very, very long time. Things to aspire to.

Ari and I headed back to my room and the hrafn boys plus the Bran boys were having a very lively discussion on many topics over mead and beer and fun. The Benton was passed out and sleeping very nicely and could care less about the room full of Vikings. All good though. We all stayed up way to late talking. I slept okay...I was worried that Benton was going to roll off the bed...but we had him blocked in on all sides. I just worried as I do. Benton let us sleep in until 8am and then it was packing and working out what we wanted to do. Mel was very worse for wear and needed food so all decisions were on hold until we got him caffeinated and fed. We headed out to Cupz and Crepes in Awahtukee and had a really nice breakfast there. Then it was decided that a quick trip to Sweden and then home. We had been invited to a few BBQ's but all of us were pretty tired. Got home and relaxed with naps. I got my bike running and went for a quick sprint to get things back into memory (like clipping in/out and shifting).

I stopped off at one of the BBQ's on the way home to just say hi and that was good. Got home before the wind really picked up. My legs felt okay and the bike was comfortable which was good since I had a ride scheduled with the Simpleview team the next AM. We all went to bed early and I got up at 5am to get ready for my pickup by Ed at 520.

I was nervous about riding with a group of much fitter people and well, I did not too bad. I sucked it on the climb to the monument but a lot of that was getting used to riding and the fact that my quads were very tight from dancing. But I managed and even though I was slow I did it without too much trouble...course I had a good coach in Ed behind me the whole time. We couldn't ride the monument due to a running race so we did a loop from escalante back to broadway/houghton. By the end I was feeling pretty good though my legs were tired and my sit bones were telling me they didn't like me. I was okay with the fact we didn't get to do the monument. Next time though will be good.

Got home and grabbed the boys and we met Ed, Candace and Holly for breakfast at Joes. Had a really nice time. Benton grabbed a glass and knocked it over. Lol. After breakfast we headed to Ace Hardware for me to pick up supplies for my regalia piece. Got home and had a grumpy boy would just wanted to be held. It wasn't very conducive to me getting things done but by the end of the day I managed to watch almost all of Torchwood: Miracle Day, work on practicing the regalia piece construction, washed some dishes, did some laundry, cleaned out the freezer of breast milk (wow, there was a lot in there..now have only a month supply), watched a movie we hadn't seen (Secretariat) and spent some time with the family. I still felt kinda useless and burned out. I think that was the lack of sleep talking. I did plenty I shouldn't complain but I wasn't up for people or anything else but bed by the time we got Benton in bed. Missed the girls at Scribble but just time to relax and hit the sack early was good.

Oh, well, its Tuesday which is really Monday and Wednesday this week since we only have a 3 day work week. Time to push the paperwork.

Well, work was work. Nuff said. Trying to take Tuesday/Wednesday off next week...we shall see how that goes.

Got home, got changed and we headed out for the our house to houghton to golflinks route. Did great until the big hill and my asthma decided my lungs didn't need to work. I had to stop to take the inhaler to get breathing going and then of course I had to walk up the hill which is demoralizing. Then I was very, very cold the rest of the ride and I never warmed up. I was under a afghan all night after I got dinner made. reynier got our bikes tuned up and I fed him dinner. Good chicken and green beans. Nummy.

Then I attempted to work on a crochet hat for FIL and failed. Seems any time I try a new pattern I misread and make hat for cats in size. I need to frog back and tray again. I'm usually one to like FPDC but not into SC which is a bitch IMHO. Its really hard to see the stitches.

We hit bed early and I kept having to get up to hit the bathroom. Well, at least I'm hydrated.

I'm rather annoyed with Mapmyride right now. First, it only recorded my time yesterday for my ride, second the website REFUSES to let me save my route after I spent way to much time plotting it with their inferior non-google mapping stuff. I put a comment on the message board but man, I might actually have to pay for the pro version to get it to work...what a gyp. Not happy.

Well, yesterday was faboo in that I got my house cleaned in 3 hours including scrubbing the master bath shower on my hands and knees. All of the kitchen and the bathrooms got a good deep cleaning. Then only thing I didn't get to was dusting and vacuuming but I think monday will be good for that. Then I headed to happy hour and we had a potluck. My Cherry Coke Jello Salad went over well and I had a nice time. The baby blanket was getting done. Got home and was happy to sit and work on the blanket. Andrew and meowandbark brought over Papa Murphy's so I let them play with the oven. The game didn't involve much dice rolling but can we saw that a 2 hour tsunami will be a very fitting end to the bad guys? Yeah, good planning. Went to be after hitting the 3rd side of the last row of edging. I was tired and planned on getting up and biking.

I got up later (3 alarms) than I planned but I got on my bike and did a hard ride. In style with todays tour which was kinda cool. I increased my mileage and sucked on parts of it but 14.43 miles at 15.1 mph (MMR says 14.5 but it counts total time versus actual wheel movement like my computer). Anyhoo, I was tuckered when I got in and STARVING!!! So, got breakfast and made coffee and sat down to watch Lance do AWESOME and come in 3rd. Go ASTANA!!! Woot!

I finished the blanket and got it into the wash, ran errands and got things ready for the baby shower. I'm going to leave in a bit and have my personal afghan as handwork. yeah, I can't sit still now without something in my hands. Gah. Oh, well. So, good day so far.