I mean seriously?
What makes us all so darn impatient? Why is our time more important than someone elses? What makes us drive so quickly, that it puts other peoples lives at risk? When was it suddenly ok to drive through red lights and good not to indicate?
Who changed the road rules without telling me????
You see a couple of weeks ago my sister (Hi Von) asked me if I wanted to do a duathlon with her and a friend or two. I was so excited. I haven't done any events for what feels like forever and it gives me something to aim towards. So last Friday I got on my bike for the first time. It felt GOOD. And when I got home I said to Andy I only 'nearly got hit' about 2 times, but they weren't serious. LOL. How sad is that when you nearly get hit twice and think its been a good ride???????????
So today with Abby here for half a day I was all excited again. I'd walked yesterday and the day before and today was my bike day. So off I went. When not more than 15 minutes into my cycle, a great big brand new shiny black Range Rover decides to pull directly in front of me without indicating. I wasn't doing anything wrong. In fact in that traffic, was being very careful. Yet, he decided not to look, and I was literally an inch from being knocked off my bike. I SCREAMED and managed to swerve around him, goodness knows how? I still don't know how I managed not to go over his bonnet? And when I looked back to wave my arm at him he was giving me the finger. HUH?! Whats with that?!
I mean this was the closest I've come to being knocked off my bike since I actually was in 1999. I was so angry. The road is for EVERYONE.
So to that horrible man in the black range rover - you scared me. You could have left 3 children motherless. Look next time.
And to the nice man who was getting out of his car at the dairy and saw me and shut his door again. Thank you.
To the nice person who waited as I went around the road works that left the road narrow. Thank you.
And to everyone else out there driving away, please look. Its scary being a cyclist on the Auckland roads nowadays.
Ok, gripe over. Down off my soapbox. If you got this far, its much nicer.
Today is Dan's 3 month anniversary and another bear photo was taken.....
At the risk of sounding cliched.........I can't believe how quickly this time has gone and how much he has grown and developed?!!!!!
Yesterday while we were out he rolled over three times. I was so the proud Mum! He's also now trying from his back to his front, but not quite getting there. He flicks all the bottom half over, but his head is just too big and heavy. LOL. He'll get it soon enough.
And while trapsing the shops today we went into a wonderful Xmas shop. You know the ones, where they only sell the most gorgeous Xmas ornaments? Yep, well, we start walking around and oooooing and ahhhing over all the pretty colours when Sarah pipes up with 'This is where Santa lives'. What a sweetie. Mum and I nearly start crying in the shop it was so cute.
And on the scrapping front, last night I finished a page which used some Chatterbox papers. Yay. I was discussing CBX papers with Lucy and realised I had a heap of them. I love them so keep buying them, but then never get round to using them. So I finally did.
Heres the end result. The journalling is very private so is hidden under Sarah's photo and there are additional private photos under the family photo. This LO is about my miscarriage last year. It feels good to have it all documented.
Cause the teddy is so big and fluffy, its made everything skew funny. IRL its all perfectly straight and matching.
Til then.