21st Century Mom

It may be that it's not 'has had' but it most certainly is 'is having'.

(video removed to preserve everyone's sanity)

Everyone else has had more sex than me.
Everyone else has had more sex than me.

Everyone else has had more sex than me.
Does anyone else get that feeling?
Teenagers naked,
Couple in threes
Grandparents swing from the ceiling.

Everyone else has had more sex than me.
Everyone else has had more sex than me.

Corporate chambers and office amore.
Shenanigans outdoor and in.
Resist and then later your find out there's more
Regret in not doing the sin.

Our lives have to die
Of that there's no help
My favourite way to end them
Is the orb-weaver spider's whose pedipalp
Enters the female pudendum.

Then dies on the spot
His corpse there still stuck,
Left for his rivals to curse at.
He would rather die than not get to f^ck
Personally I reckon it's worth it.

Everyone else has had more sex than me.
Does anyone else get that feeling?

Everyone else has had more sex than me.
Does everybody else get that feeling?

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Does everyone think...

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In other news - I have so many things to write about but I keep getting busy and forgetting about them. I have been more than a little upset by the South Dakota vote to ban all abortions even in the case of rape and incest. I even wrote a letter to the governor asking him to envision the life of a teenager raped and pregnant who might actually have to endure her rapists insistence on visiting her child after he got out of jail. It could happen, folks - they haven't amended family law to automatically terminate parental rights in the case of rape. As far as l know they haven't even thought of it.

In other news - we had a little health scare around here and let me tell you something. It doesn't matter how old your kids are when they say, "Mom, I think I have a problem" and it sounds bad. You just lose your heart somewhere deep in your body cavity and then you want to throw up. Fortunately it was a false scare and all is well - phew!

And with that nonsense post I'm off to bed because I need to make the 5:30 AM swim tomorrow.

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I'm in tears. I'm not sure what can be done but I expecct Planned Parenthood will initiate a lawsuit to stop this brutal and unfair law in its tracks. One can only hope.

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It's been lovely out here on the Left Coast. The mornings are cold but then it warms up to sunny, spring days with the temperature in the mid 60s. In the morning there is frost on the roof and ice coating the car windows and I think "brrrrr..... I couldn't possibly go out there and run" and then, when I finally haul my lazy butt out of bed or later in the morning after I've gone swimming I start blog surfing I find that people in frostier climes go running in the snow and the freezing cold. My hat is off to you people. In other words, better you than me. Even though the pool is outdoors and it is a bit nippy on the deck, once you get in the 80 degree water it’s quite nice. The other day the air was so cold that my face felt like I was up on a mountain when I was waiting for instructions between sets but once we got going it was fine. This is different than running and having the sweat freeze up on your jacket. You people are amazing.

I am still in training for my 65 mile bike ride at the end of March. I can't even believe I'm doing this. I have to confess – I don't really like it that much. It's nice and scenic and all that and I do feel a sense of accomplishment when I ride my bike 35 miles (the longest I have gone to date) but I'm just not loving it. On the plus side, the more I ride more anxious I am to get back to running. April 1 I will start training in earnest for the SF Marathon.

Speaking of which, I'd like to thank Jon for my new favorite running term – marathon splat. He used that in reference to how David felt after he completed his marathon and that term exactly describes how I felt after my first marathon in 1999. I didn't care if I never ran another mile. It didn't help that just after that race the temperature started to climb so that running as early as 8 AM meant running in high heat. I don't like running in the heat much more than I like running in the cold and oops - do we see a problem here? I'm a wimp - that's the problem. Truth be told, if I could sit on my butt all day reading and writing and not blow up like Marshmallow Peep that's been put in the microwave, I'd do it. Unfortunately, if I allowed myself go like that I'd feel just about like that pathetic little Peep after it blew up and imploded and thus I must swim and bike and run and the only way to get myself to do it regularly is to register for some big event and struggle through the training. Just call me Sisyphus.

Speaking of Peeps - do you think I could substitute Peeps for Gu on the long runs and rides? If Jelly Belly can create Sports Beans why can’t Just Born make Sports Peeps? Of course knowing Peeps as I do (guilty indulgence alert!) Just Born would probably make them so they look like runners and then instead of hanging out with peeps in the clubhouse we'd be eating each other alive. I think I’ll just leave that behavior to other bloggers with less noble intentions (note the lack of links –ha ha! I'm not about to lead you off to blog wars, but they do exist).

And on that note - happy training, peeps!

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Anyhow, I first saw this when I was working for an internet company that specialized in streaming media. We spent lots of "totally justified" time watching film clips on the internet. One of our favorite sites was AdCritic.com where, at that time, advertisements could be watched for free. I'm not sure the site had any other purpose at that time but today it is a clearinghouse for keeping abreast of what is happening in the world of advertising and it costs money. This comes as a huge relief to me because watching all those films would take up precious blog reading time - or eating and sleeping time, who knows?

Stay tuned for a post on running - it's coming soon. Really.

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Anyhow, Grace has such a great blog she is up for an award for best writing. Please go check her out and maybe vote for her. And also - don't miss this post about her wedding to Mr. 3rd Time because it is too funny.

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That was then, though and now is now. Jeanne recently posted about the addition of an iPod shuffle to her running gear. I also run with a Shuffle (double entendre alert!). I listen to books when I run but occasionally I shuffle over to some tunes just to pick things up and that brings me to a question.

How many of you listen to music while you run? Do you have a favorite mix? Is it available as a podcast? What other podcasts do you know of that are good to listen to (either while running or about running or just about anything)? In other words - what is on your iPod?

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Try this Tonya - "I'm deeply sorry for the horrible thing I did and I thank God every day that Nancy was able to heal and go on with her career". Yeah - like that.

Color me mystified.

Then color my heart red

Your Heart Is Red

You're a passionate lover - you always have a huge fire in your heart. Too bad it's hard for you to be passionate about just one person! Your flirting style: Outgoing and sexy Your lucky first date: Drinks and dancing Your dream lover: Is both stable and intense What you bring to relationships: Honesty

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This is how she describes herself :
We can add “she already has three kids, two with severe special needs, and she’s taking in a fourth” to the list of why she’s crazy. Hey, I told you, I have a bleeding heart.

This especially makes her a woman after my own heart as I am a CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocate) for a child in the foster care system. Kids who get taken out of their homes for any reason have such a hard time and whatever help they can get on their journey is so important. Please step on over to The Pajama Mama's blog and read some posts.

Back to Brown.. He told the White House that New Orleans was in trouble and then.....
And then he went back to worrying about his wardrobe. Remember that whole thing about the email thread regarding his awesome shirt from Norstrom? I guess when he didn't get any response from the White House he just sort of gave up - right. The only thing notable about this claim is that is sort of an anti-Bush brown nosing maneuver. Does that mean anything?

And back to me - I ran again today. Madam Garmina was a little flaky but did serve to incent me to hurry it up. For example, it showed crazy slow paces (14+ minute miles) and, when the little widow came up and said 'Lap 3' I stopped running because I was almost home and I really wanted to just run 3 miles. The time said: 31:40 so I was thrilled! Then I looked again and the total miles said 2.94. WTS (what the shizzle!??). I turned the thing back on and ran another .25 mile but as it turns out I really did make that first 3 miles i 31:40 for an average of 10:32/mi. Not bad. I don't know what the deal is with the screen read out. The software seems to work fine. I'll have to call Garmin tech support.

In a nutshell, things at the White House are still unbelievable in the truest sense of the word but there are still good things happening. And that's Madonna-thon 2006 Day 1.

ps- Apologies for changing this whole post after publishing it. Sometimes these things happen

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I am already training for a 65 mile bike ride at the end of March and I'm registered to run the San Francisco Marathon at the end of July and I like to swim so there's no question that I'll be getting lots of exercise over the next 6 months. I eat pretty well but I am going to impose a white-out on my diet which means no white food. No white rice (I prefer brown so no problem), no white pasta (I love whole wheat and soba so no problem), no white bread (I always eat whole wheat anyhow so no problem), and no white sugar. It takes me about 6 months to consume a 5 lb bag around here so all I have to do is swear off ice cream and cookies. Ouch.

Anyhow, what I really want to know is how do people insert those tidy data tables in the side bar of their blogs? You know, the ones that record exercise and diet. I am horrible with HTML tables so I hope there is a blog widget for doing that. At the very least do people use Front Page or Word to generate the table and then cut and paste the results into the template? Please do tell. I will need to make daily confessions to stay on track.

ps - Anyone care to join me? Misery reall does love company, you know.

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I'm so tired of being slow. I guess I'll have to wait until my bike ride is over to start really logging the miles and getting my pace in order, annoying and frustrating as that is.

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Last summer my siblings and I took a vacation in the San Juan Islands - the ones off of Washington State. We rented bikes and biked all over the place and it was really, really fun. Who could have imagined what having another 11 gears could do for the sport? I was a much better biker than I had remembered and I was able to manage my fear of cars reasonably well.

When I got back I discovered that a couple of friends I swim with also really like to bike and a biker chick was born. I even took an upgrade on my bike about a month ago and went from my utterly ridiculous Schwinn 10 speed that I bought for 10 bucks 17 years ago to a nice Trek 7300 hybrid bike. I love it. My friends and I have gone out for a couple of nice long rides together.

Recently friend C called me up to ask if I would join her on a road ride in March called the Cinderella Classic. Sure I said, tell me about it. She started reading the brochure, "The Cinderella Classic covers 65 scenic miles..."
"WHAT???!! Did you say 65 miles??"
"Sure - you can do that"
"I can?"
"Sure - it's just a ride. It isn't a race"
"Well, okay. sure"

And thus it has come to pass that on March 25 I am going to ride my pretty new bike 65 miles in a row with a couple of stops for food. What the hell a ride that length has to do with Cinderella is beyond me. I mean really, shouldn't it be called the WonderWoman Classic?

Today was beautiful so I went out and took a 15 mile ride and it wasn't any big deal. I guess that means I can handle 65 miles. I hope it does.

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