This week. This week started out not so great but ended on a pretty good note. I started the week with a yucky little cold. No fever so I had to go to school but it was not fun. I came home from school on Monday and crashed. I slept for an hour and a half and then hit the hay by 7:30. I was down and out Monday and Tuesday but that also means I got out of swim practice and religion class so it wasn't all bad!
Things started to perk up mid week. I got my belated Christmas present from Aunt Erin and Uncle Adam. My own custom made dragon jacket! My friends, Max and Claire, each have one like this so I'm feeling pretty cool now.
We made it through the week and no one else seems to have caught my cold so we got to party like rock stars on Friday. Not really but mom did head out to meet some friends from work at a paint your own/wine bar place. It is a fun concept where everyone paints the same picture with help from the instructor AND you get to drink wine while you do it. I think it makes the painting part more tolerable.
There were about 10 people from mom's work that went and they all had a great time. There are even a few with unrealized artistic talent in the bunch.
But as you can see, mom is not one of them. Good thing she likes her day job. Now we just have to decide what to do with this thing. One suggestion was to give it to our moms because every mom likes a painting from their kid, no matter how old the kid is. I'm sure Nana will love having this hanging over her fireplace.
On Saturday, we packed up the RV and met our friends for a quick one night camping trip. My dad, Madeline's dad, Mr. Walker and three others of questionable mental clarity have signed up to ride "24 Hours in the Old Pueblo". It is a mountain bike race that starts at noon on Saturday, February 15 and goes until noon the following day. You can sign up as individuals or as a team from as little as two people to as many as you want. You then ride as many laps as you can in those 24 hours so there is some day time riding, some sunset riding, some night riding and some dawn riding.
The team, with the exception of Mr. Walker who was do some individual training in Albuquerque, camped at the race course so everyone could get some practice in. It was a beautiful weekend with lots of sunshine. While the team was out riding their laps, the kids with mom and Ms. Audrey in tow did lots of rock climbing and bike riding of our own.
We only had one mishap for the weekend when I took a drink from dad's water bottle, not realizing he had eaten a peanut butter power bar a few hours earlier and drank from the same water bottle. It didn't take too long for my lip to swell and go numb. I got two doses of Benedryl and thankfully, it didn't get any worse because there is nothing like being 30 miles and a nasty, washboarded dirt road away from the nearest hospital. Aside from being a little scared, I handled it well and pretty much forgot about it by dinner time.
Mom and I are off on Monday for Martin Luther King Jr. day so we need to figure out how to spend our time. Hope everyone has a wonderful week!
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