Monday blues

I respect stay at home moms. Really, I do. They have sacrificed weekends. I work full time, but as consolation I get that juicy concept of weekends to look forward to at the end of my 5 days of often mundane slogging. If you are a full time mom, I'd imagine that weekends no longer pack much punch. Your work is now 24/7, with little change in routine across the 7 days, except hopefully having your partner help you out on the weekends.

There is one aspect though, that I think stay at home moms loose that is a good thing. Along with weekends, the concept of Monday is also gone. I'm open for correction here, I am neither stay at home nor a mom, so it's possible I'm talking complete rubbish.

Mondays seldom bring me much joy and with my job in it's present situation I have approached this day with a dread that started on Sunday afternoon. What a waste of good weekend time.

And it was a good weekend. Yesterday I did my first real bike trip since my Hunny and I went out to Nelspruit in December. We rode roughly 350 km's yesterday. Not a lot for some, but quite a bit for me, and I shattered my previous 'personal land speed record on a bike' of 150 km/h by travelling nearly 170 km/h ... I'm quite proud of me for that. Not that I intend becoming a speed daemon and racing about the roads all the time, but it's good for me to push myself and do a couple of things that make me nervous.

The biggest nerve inducing moment of the day was when I popped out from behind a truck with the intention of overtaking, only to spot a car in the way. I remained remarkably calm I think. Applied brakes, moved closer to the truck, and closed my eyes when the car passed. Oh, and I stuck my left leg out. Not sure about that one, like what did I think I could do? put my foot down? at 100 km/h? Might have been a balance thing, I'm not sure, but I did think that was a strange way for my body to react to the oncoming danger.

I did learn an important lesson though, just because the biker in front of you just passed the truck doesn't mean it's still clear for you to do so. I'm glad I learnt it in such a non harmful way.

So here's my Monday post, 1 down and 2 more due for the week. I'm feeling strong!