Empty Nest

Time is ticking by so slowly tonight. I'm home alone for the first time in 18 years. Janet and Bert are in Calgary for a weekend volleyball tournament. I really wanted to go to that, but Jill needs me here. But not tonight. She's out with friends and promises to be home by one or two. Its ten thirty. Worse is yet to come. In a few months Jill will have moved into residence. UGH.

Well there's lots of things I've put on the shelf, so now I can start to work on them. But not tonight. I'd rather wallow in my misery, and sense of impending doom.

The UBBT7, is actually helping me with this terrible transition though. Some of the goals I picked, are pointing me towards the things that I had left sitting on the shelf until I was finished parenting. My cycling interest is going awesomely well. (I keep on meaning to update that on the tracker.) Today, my legs ache in places they haven't in a long time. I might just develop those lean shapely cyclists legs yet! We've been doing lots of hills, and it reminds me of the all the hills I used to cycle in West Vancouver. My brother and I used to cycle the hills and winding narrow roads from Ambleside to Horshoe Bay just for fun. I cycled the Salt Spring Islands with my college buddies. And I cycled to work every day in the summer, from West Vancouver to North Vancouver - feeling my legs get stronger and stronger as the summer of tackling ridiculous inclines progressed. But back to the future. Jill and I cycled the fifth meridian last week, and its very nice now that the wide shoulders are there. We are planning a much longer trip on Monday (which will supposedly be dry with sunny periods). Oh, there's trips galore to be cycled this summer. And!!! This is the surprise; I almost took a job as a bike assembler but it was part time and I really wanted 'bike mechanic'. But, I spoke to a fellow at River Valley Cycle who's been a bike mechanic all his life - and he will be doing a couple of courses this summer. And Bert might let me quit my job, and then go to the States for a week at a highly reputable bicycle mechanic school.

Hey, and Lance Armstrong is coming to town. Topic: ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE! Tickets are $200. Maybe I'll keep that job a bit longer.