Weekend

Had a fantastic weekend. Went to see the opening day of bike racing at NHMS. Got a little bit of sun so I'm a tad bit pink but it's ok. All was worth it to spend a great day with my man and a bunch of great riders.
There is no helmet law in New Hampshire, this is a problem for me.  We ride street bikes and we always wear full gear no matter the weather. I'd rather be sweating in gear than crash and die. We saw a few crashes on the track and to think of how they would have gone had the riders not had gear on, it would have been tragic. Two or three went off the track in ambulances. Crashes off the track are way worse. First, there is no medical response waiting and there are no safety barriers to pad your crash, only other vehicles or walls. I like my brain in my head and I like my skin on my body. Broken bones you'll get no matter what but they heal.   I met a girl who burned her leg on the exhaust of a bike, and yet still rides around with sneakers, capri sweats and a wife beater tank top. Unreal!!

End of the week

It's Friday already. Not too impressed though. I'm glad my work week is over but I get a day alone tomorrow and I wasn't expecting it so I have nothing planned. I may end up cleaning the yard but I know for sure that cleaning the inside will be done.  I pick my child up from her father's on Sunday and I'm very excited about that. Most moms are happy to see their kids after being away for a while. I know she's going to be happy to see me too. She's been so unhappy this past week. She's been getting grounded a lot and most of it is stupid stuff that I would just yell at her for.

I put a counter on my blog, wanted to see how many people out there actually look at these things. Seems no one does. I have three hits and it's cause I wanted to see how my blog looked, so the three are my own. How lame is that.

But a dream

I love this poem. People see it differently. How I interpret it:   First he talks about being in a dream. I see life as a dream. Not that of my own but of another. Could we be but a dream.  The sand is our time, we should hold on to it tight and for as long as we can for it won't always be there. Enjoy it and embrace it.
I like this poem because life has always been a puzzle to me. How we came to be and how we will end. Why do we rush so much to get no where?  The only destiny I believe is that one day, that sand will run out. We can hold tighter or let loose, it's our choice. 

A Dream Within a Dream
by Edgar Allan Poe
Take this kiss upon the brow! And, in parting from you now, Thus much let me avow: You are not wrong who deem That my days have been a dream; Yet if hope has flown away In a night, or in a day, In a vision, or in none, Is it therefore the less gone? All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream. I stand amid the roar Of a surf-tormented shore, And I hold within my hand Grains of the golden sand-- How few! yet how they creep Through my fingers to the deep, While I weep--while I weep! O God! can I not grasp Them with a tighter clasp? O God! can I not save One from the pitiless wave? Is all that we see or seem But a dream within a dream?

50 Parental Quotes

How many of these have you said to your kids?  I know I've said a few to mine. Then I think to myself that I sound like my mom did.

Just another day

It's just another day in the world. Got up for work, played with the cats and was off. No one annoyed me on the highway and I made it on time even after stopping for gas and breakfast. 

I'm the only one here today. This means no lunch or I have it delivered cause I ran out of time to stop at the supermarket to grab something. I don't like being alone on a nice day. It means that at lunch I can't step outside and grab a breath of nice spring fresh air. I hate being stuck inside all day. By the time I get out and get home, it feels like my whole day is gone. Winter time is the worst for that because I'm out the door before the sun and it's gone when I walk out the door here. Total winter blues.

I have summer plans though. Take a week off and go away with the family. We are going to try to enjoy every ounce of nice this year. We are going to go rock climbing and hiking and kayaking. Maybe a couple camping trips and ocean trips. 

But for right now, it's just work. I'll look out my window, little as it is, and watch the kids play and cars go by.

New Hampshire

This has to be one of the best videos I have ever seen.

A little about me

I decided to start this blog to vent now and then. To get my thoughts out and see if anyone agrees or disagrees. To see other peoples point of view.
I am not the kind of person who cares what others think. We all have our own opinions and our own thoughts. I can't change yours, and you most certainly can't change mine.

I hate stupidity and ignorance and I see a lot of this on a day to day basis.  Today for instance, I was driving to work on the highway and there was a truck in the left lane yet no one in the right lane. He didn't feel like moving over and I've been told not to pass a rig on it's right. It's harder for them to see you on the right and you risk getting hit. This guy was not moving and he was going the speed limit so I moved to the right lane and increased my speed just a bit and stayed in my lane. He then looked in his side mirror and saw a line of cars behind him and moved behind me in the right lane. Why can't people who want to drive slow just stay in the right lane. You aren't going to get anywhere any faster in the left one and you are only going to piss those of us off that want to get by you.