It’s been a slow week around here that hasn’t involved any riding. The rain has been coming down steady practically all week, and it’s not supposed to let up until later tonight. The temps would have been great, though, if we hadn’t had all the rain. It was 68 today. Freakin’ January!

I did get a bit of a bike fix this evening by watching a couple reruns of Superbikes!, but that was about it. Hubby came home talking about how he wants to take some new photos of the bike now that it actually looks like a bike again. I said no problem, but I’m not doing what he wants. He’s trying to convince me to put on some sexy lingerie and pose.

Nope. No way. Not gonna happen!

He forgets I’m the type of person who won’t let anybody take pics of me in my undies for any reason. Heck, I hate taking my swimsuit cover up off at the beach. He forgets it’s been half a decade since I had that perfect little teenager body. If he wants a chick to pose on his bike, he’ll have to find someone else to do it, but I’d prefer no one did it.

Hey man I redid my bike so now I need a half naked chick on it.

It’s just too cliché.

With the cold weather upon us and threads showing on the back tire I’m having serious riding withdrawals.  It’s warm enough to ride today, but without a back tire what are you to do?  I’ve turned to video games for my fix.  I played a little Tourist Trophy then I sat down for awhile and decided to buy bikes for all of my Sims.  I still need to find a sports bike since all the motorcycles I’ve been able to download or choppers or cruisers.  If anybody has a custom sports bike mesh that you know about let me know!  I’m not just looking in the free stuff.  I’m all for a PTU mesh as well.

I really need to get some more photos taken of our bike and what it looks like now.  I thought of doing that today, but I left my camera in the Blazer.  I’ll try to take some photos when Hubby gets home from work if it’s not too dark.  My Kodak point & shoot doesn’t work very well in the dark.  The flash totally sucks!

Now I’m going to go cut into one of the mini cheesecakes I made last night.  If they taste as good as they look I’m definitely going to have to do some research on effective diet pills.

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 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!

Today was a really nice day and perfect riding weather. Hubby told me this morning he was going to ride for a bit if he got the tire changed out. I needed to catch some sleep, so I figured he’d do that then we’d go riding this afternoon.

WRONG. I slept until almost dark. I woke up to my phone ringing off the hook…my mom calling me wanting me to look up some info on fibromyalgia. That’s when I realized both Hubby and the bike were gone, so I’m glad he got to enjoy the nice weather. It looks like it’s going to be 74 tomorrow, so I might try to get in some ride time. This is probably one of the last warm days we’ll have before spring. I have a feeling it’s going to be a rough winter.