and sticky. i've been working like crazy. pretty much everyday. if i'm not at both jobs i'm at at least one of them. on top of all of the house/dog sitting we've been doing... on top of my covering a couple of extra shifts at ikea for people on top of the 9 hours i spent at jury duty the other day.... it's never ending. plus my list of 'things to do' just keeps growing and i dont' seem to be crossing anything off. i'm exhausted.

anyhow. if i could forget about all of it and just get back on my bike right now - headed for who knows where - i would.

i sat down with all of our bike maps and state maps and an atlas and looked at the routes we took and got an exact count for all of the miles we rode each day. it turned out to be a total of 1140 miles that mike and i biked (and for 325 of those nick was also with us).

i had a pretty pleasant surprise when i got home... apparently my family (mom, ray and grandma) each decided to pledge 10 cents for each mile i biked, but didn't tell me about it until i made it back home. sneeky. but it couldn't have come at a better time, since mike and i went a bit over our budget and didn't quite have enough money left over for rent by the time the trip was over.

it was nice to know that they all were really that proud of me. and that they were all that interested in what i was doing. i have the greatest family.

mike and i are shopping for some used cardio machines. it sucks... i was just starting to tone up and now i'm all flabby again. damn. i month just wasn't long enough.