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!
Monday, February 26, 2007
Friday, February 23, 2007
New Month resolution
So I missed the new year. And February. But my resolution for March is to post at least 3 blog entries a week.
Those who know me well will agree that I am someone who does most things out of necessity, not out of routine. Routine and me, we were never good friends. I washed clothes when there were no more clean ones (until we got a maid in once a week), cut my hair when it's really out of shape and annoying me, and before I married my strong-on-routine husband, serviced my car when it started making a funny noise.
So blogging on routine will not be something that I will find easy, but it's gotta be done. Since discovering this blogging thing, I've grown addicted to reading a couple of blogs. My two favorites are Peggy, as she is and Blog that Mommy! , both regular bloggers, especially Neila at Blog that Mommy, who runs a minimum of one post a day.
Now my blog has few readers so far (I got my first comment (from Peggy) that wasn't my hubby on my last post, you'd think that would inspire me), but the anguish I feel when I go to my favourite blogs and there are no updates is acute, and I'd hate to do that to my regular readers, assuming I got any. So I really have to up my game here.
Plus, I'm never gonna get any regular readers if there is nothing to read, am I?
I also need to do something about the lack of gadgets on my blog. Anyone know a site / blog that gives tips on improving your blog? I now get some of my blogs by email. I gotta figure out how to do that to my blog!
To get a heard start in on March, I'll post my next entry by Monday. I put it in writing so I'd better stick to it.
Cheers!
Those who know me well will agree that I am someone who does most things out of necessity, not out of routine. Routine and me, we were never good friends. I washed clothes when there were no more clean ones (until we got a maid in once a week), cut my hair when it's really out of shape and annoying me, and before I married my strong-on-routine husband, serviced my car when it started making a funny noise.
So blogging on routine will not be something that I will find easy, but it's gotta be done. Since discovering this blogging thing, I've grown addicted to reading a couple of blogs. My two favorites are Peggy, as she is and Blog that Mommy! , both regular bloggers, especially Neila at Blog that Mommy, who runs a minimum of one post a day.
Now my blog has few readers so far (I got my first comment (from Peggy) that wasn't my hubby on my last post, you'd think that would inspire me), but the anguish I feel when I go to my favourite blogs and there are no updates is acute, and I'd hate to do that to my regular readers, assuming I got any. So I really have to up my game here.
Plus, I'm never gonna get any regular readers if there is nothing to read, am I?
I also need to do something about the lack of gadgets on my blog. Anyone know a site / blog that gives tips on improving your blog? I now get some of my blogs by email. I gotta figure out how to do that to my blog!
To get a heard start in on March, I'll post my next entry by Monday. I put it in writing so I'd better stick to it.
Cheers!
Three things I learnt in traffic this morning
1. Asshole road users do not respect Toyota Corolla's (hubby's car which I was driving this morning) as much as they do my Mitsubishi Colt double cab
2. All BMW drivers are still assholes
3. It's possible for a woman driver to stall an Audi 5 times in succession across 2 light changes.
Actually, I felt quite bad for her, the more people hooted, the more uptight she got, the more she stalled. I almost got out my car, taped on her window and said "Make sure it's actually in first gear", but the BMW eejit had aggravated me enough that I just wanted to get to work and forget about traffic.
2. All BMW drivers are still assholes
3. It's possible for a woman driver to stall an Audi 5 times in succession across 2 light changes.
Actually, I felt quite bad for her, the more people hooted, the more uptight she got, the more she stalled. I almost got out my car, taped on her window and said "Make sure it's actually in first gear", but the BMW eejit had aggravated me enough that I just wanted to get to work and forget about traffic.
Thursday, February 1, 2007
Sometimes you just have to wonder ...
Roadblocks are not that common in and around joburg where I live. But when the metro (traffic) police get off their arses and do something, boy do they go all out! About half of the staff at the company where I work took over an hour longer than usual to get to the office. Makes for a bad day all round.
And the reason? A roadblock. Closing two of the three lanes of road directly off a major national highway offramp. The purpose? Catching some folk who haven't paid their traffic fines, and pulling of a couple of unroadworthy taxis ... Now the taxi's I can understand, but not in peak hour traffic at one of the busiest offramps in the province!
I wish someone would hurry up that commercial teleporting technology! Would make for many much happier employees.
And the reason? A roadblock. Closing two of the three lanes of road directly off a major national highway offramp. The purpose? Catching some folk who haven't paid their traffic fines, and pulling of a couple of unroadworthy taxis ... Now the taxi's I can understand, but not in peak hour traffic at one of the busiest offramps in the province!
I wish someone would hurry up that commercial teleporting technology! Would make for many much happier employees.
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