Big bike ride tomorrow

I’ve took a long hard look at the summer coming up and realised that I will not get too many opportunities to do any serious biking. A decision was then made to bike to school at least once a week. I’ve biked to downtown and back before so it should not be too bad, but I’ve never done it “on the clock” in both directions.

Tomorrow is the first day, I got my bike ready and I washed my biking clothes. I still need to get the panniers filled with all the stuff and get my lunch and school clothes prepared. I am nervous, wish me luck!

Crocus

This weekend was nice enough, it was the first instance of summer weather. I got my sandals and skirts out. I actually got a lot done without too much rushing. I went wedding dress shopping with Maria, got my bike ready for the road, went for a nice walk with my boys, tidied up the front yard, got groceries, helped Chris catch his plane on time, visited Alex, played with Trevor etc. What a gorgeous start of a summer!

Snowed in

Snow

There is so much snow out there it is a home weekend for us. Chris’ plans are to copy 10 records.

Records

My plan is to tidy and play with the boy. The two are mutually exclusive and at cross purposes. I will be busy the whole weekend and still feel like I got nothing done.

Duck!

Ever since Trev started daycare and Chris went back to work, life has been crazy. I don’t think I made it to any spinning classes in two months, I go to gym once a week at work if I can compass it. I do make it to school more often than not though my goal of submitting a paper for June would be much assisted by more free time of which I have none. To top it all I am going to Toronto for a week again. The hotel has a sorry excuse for a gym, so I just might get a workout.

Hi-ho, hi-ho off to work we go!

This was my first week back to school (day) and work. My first full school day was fun. I had a chat with my advisor and I learned about the Visitor pattern. I feel like I am getting my money’s worth of education after two years of nothing much. Even if this doesn’t make much of a difference in my career, I am really glad to have made the decision to continue my education. I just have to make sure I put aside enough time to do a good job.

Work was strange. Apart from the fact that the factory has moved to Toronto and our lab from 6th to 3rd floor, it felt that I have only been gone for a particularly long weekend and returned with a bad hangover. I generally just took up from where I left off. The hardest part was remembering where everything was. Fortunately for me, I expect to forget most details so I take good notes. It was somewhat nice to be back without huge changes to deal with.

Chris seems to be doing really well with Trev. I have come home for lunch and Trev was not interested in food while I was away so I still did all the feedings. I don’t know what they did today but Trev fell asleep at 6:30.

Film – Knocked Up

I remember thinking that 40 Year Old Virgin was a really funny movie. Knocked Up wasn’t very funny. It was brutally realistic though. Once I decided that the film is not supposed to be funny, I ended up enjoying it.

In other news I’ve gotten back into my school work. Yeah! And we’re going on vacation in a couple of days. Double yeah!

Outdoor living
Making crepes in the backyard