We’re headed out to a wedding this morning, and this really sucks. It’s still raining non stop, and we’ve got to drive 2 hours downstate for it. What really sucks is the Bride and Groom were planning on leaving out on the Groom’s Harley. I really hope they came up with a backup plan because it’s supposed to pour rain all day.

I had a feeling it’d end up raining like this today. When I watched the news last night with my Grandparents they were saying the rain would move out over night. My Grandma told me she knew better than that. She pulled out her magnetic bracelets because her arthritis in her wrists was killing her because of the rain. She knew today would be another bad day. When I woke up this morning and checked the weather, she was totally right. 70% chance all day doesn’t sound like it moved out to me!

We’re supposed to go for a ride with friends this afternoon, but I don’t know if I’ll be able to.  Clumsiness that is me fell hard this morning, and I’ll probably be too sore to ride. See we’ve got this couch bed in my office.  I pulled it out yesterday because I already had this room warm, but the bedroom was freezing.  It was super easy to get out as usual, and all was well.

Then Hubby came home and sat on the edge of it.  270lbs on a concentrated area of the bar wasn’t good at all, and he bent the thing.  He bent it out the best he could, but he just couldn’t get it completely straight.  Last night one of my friends drove up for my birthday.  It was late, so we pulled the couch bed back out for him so he didn’t have to drive 2 hours home at midnight.

This morning Hubby came stumbling through half asleep and plopped down on the same bar he bent yesterday!  This time it bent even worse, but he was running late, so he didn’t have time to fix it before work.  He was out the door before I could get it folded back up, so I folded it up and tried to put it back in the couch myself.  Everything was fine until I went to give it that last shove down into the hole.  It didn’t want to budge, so I put all my body weight into it, pushed as hard as I could, and found myself flat on my face against the bottom of the bed.  It was in place, but I smacked my lower stomach on the very uncushioned wooden frame of the couch on my way down.

Now I’m in some serious pain, and I’m already turning black and blue.  I bruise so easily my whole stomach will probably be one huge bruise in a couple hours.  I’ll keep an eye on it, and if it starts to look too rough I’ll hit up Urgent Care.

What is it with me an furniture? The last time I seriously hurt myself I fell on one of the chairs my aunt bought for her home theater seating. I already have an invisible bullseye on my forehead. I guess I need to paint one on my entire body.

I seriously can’t believe all this nice weather we’re having right now! It’s going to be around 77 today, and it’ll be a beautiful day to ride. Too bad I feel like absolute total crap, and Hubby’s working late tonight. It’ll be well past dark when he gets home, so no riding for us.

Before Hubby left for work we talked about taking a ride anyway when he gets home, but I already feel like I’m on the verge of pneumonia. I can just imagine what I’d feel like after riding around with the cold air hitting my face. Even with my chin guard on my helmet and wearing my balaclava it still hits me pretty rough when my body’s already low. I think I’ll just stay off the bike until I’m feeling better.

I have other things to do anyway. I’m going to try to knock out some more Christmas shopping this morning, especially if I get paid early today. That would be a really nice surprise. I still haven’t ordered any of Hubby’s presents yet. I keep making a list of all the things I want to get him, and he keeps changing his mind. I almost ordered him a set of boots, but I’m glad I didn’t.

Last night he proposed that we yet again don’t buy presents for each other this year. We haven’t bought each other gifts in 5 years because we’re always spending more than we should on everyone else, not leaving any of the Christmas budget for us. We’d made a pact that this year we would definitely buy each other presents, but I’m kind of liking Hubby’s new idea.

We’ve both got a list of places we want to go on vacation. He wants to visit Germany, Holland, and Spain while I definitely want a big trip to Ireland as well as many other places. His idea is that we start searching for a big vacation package, then we throw all the money we’d spend on each other into a vacation savings account. We do that for every birthday and holiday until we can afford to go. Honestly, the cash that other people give us at Christmas and Birthdays combined with the cash we wouldn’t be spending on each other, we might actually be able to take a nice vacation in the next year or two.

His only stipulation?

No matter where we go, he has to be able to rent a bike and travel around the country. I guess that means European cruises are out of the question.

I absolutely LOVE to shop online. I admit I hate going to the brick & mortar when I need something, but give me a computer and a credit card, and I’m ready to shop ’til I drop!

I bet you can guess what kind of stuff gets me every time! Yep, it’s the motorcycle gear. I spend hours just searching around the internet looking at all these awesome jackets and helmets and boots and gloves and…the list just goes on! I’ve never been much of a girlie girl, and I’ve never really had a passion for shopping for anything until it came time to pick out my gear. I’m never happy with having just 1 riding jacket or 1 helmet or whatever. I always want more! I want to have options. I don’t care how many actual daily wear outfits I have in my closet as long as I can pick my riding “outfit”. I don’t want to wear the same old jacket and helmet every single time. This girl needs options!

I recently found out about a contest eBillme has going on, and man it’s such an awesome contest. it’s one of those things that would not only allow me to shop for anything my little heart desires, but I could totally buy everything on all those Christmas wish lists I have to fulfill. Yep, it’s time to do that dreaded holiday shopping, and eBillme is giving away $33,000 in prizes that could help us all get a little of that shopping out of the way!

So, how in the world can you enter this awesome contest? Well it’s pretty simple actually. First you need to register for the contest at Shop and Confess to sign up. When it asks you for a URL it’d really appreciate if you would add my blogs url (http://motomadness.buddybrick.com) so they will know I referred you. In no way will that help or hurt either of our chances of winning, but it will allow Ebillme to know that I referred you to their contest. Also, the referral URL must match one of the bloggers chosen to refer you to this contest, so using your own link won’t work!

Then there’s only one more step, and it’s super simple. All you have to do is write out your shopping confession. If you’re not camera shy you can also record your confession and upload it! That’s it! You’re entered for a chance to win!

Ebillme has also put together a video to give you more information on the contest, so please check it out!

I tried to go to sleep last night but I couldn’t. I guess sleeping ’til 5pm will do that to you! I decided at 6am that there’s no way I’m going to be sleepy before daybreak, so I’m going to wake Hubby up to see if he wants to take a ride this morning. I pulled out the liner for my jacket and my under armor. I’m ready to go!

I really did expect to be sleepy by now considering time changed and all of you are getting an extra hour of sleep right now. I sat here watching a movie thinking man it should really be later than this! I feel like time is moving so slowly tonight. Then I smacked myself in the forehead and said “Duh! Time changed an hour ago!”

I finished my movie and spent a few hours going back and forth between surfing around the net looking at random stuff, cleaning up junk in my office, and cleaning up tons of old mail in my inbox. I have a bad habit of not deleting stuff after I read it, so I had all kind of junk in there like coupon codes to use during B&BW sales that ended 6 months ago, old forwards I never wanted to look at in the first place, and junk emails from places trying to get me to do stuff like renting las vegas suites or buy ink. At least I got all that cleaned out.

Now I’m just killing time waiting for about another hour so I can wake Hubby up and say let’s ride! Maybe he’ll be in a good mood and I can bribe him out of bed with riding and breakfast!