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On 2004-08-12, Stephen Baker penned:
>
> Quitcherbitchin. Here's a thought for you. You come and organise my
> daughter's wedding on Friday (or pay for it? Both?) and I'll come
> race your race. Deal?
>
> Steve "does the name Bridezilla ring a bell?"

Ugh! I dislike wedding planning so much that I ditched the whole
concept for my own wedding. We had 11 guests including children, family
only. Courthouse wedding followed by a catered lunch at the house.
Shopped for and bought the dress a week before the wedding; bought shoes
the weekend *of* the wedding. Everyone had a great time.

I still spent the two months prior to the wedding with a sore lower back
from stress, worrying about how the families would get along and such.
This just reinforces my belief that, no matter how long you give
yourself to plan, you'll stress for the duration, so you might as well
get it over with as quickly as possible.

--
monique

"Get a bicycle. You will not regret it, if you live."
-- Mark Twain
 
On 2004-08-12, Sunastar penned:
>
> Monique would probably do well to race if it's muddy. The riders who
> have raced before may think 'it's just another race' so they'll just
> sit this one out. Of course, if she's running semi-slicks, she'll be
> in a heap-o-trouble.

Victory by attrition? Well, I guess that's only fair.

No worry about semi-slicks etc; I'm running the bike exactly as I'm used
to running it. No uber racing tires or any craziness. I did buy one of
those baby camelbaks to replace the four megaton pack I usually carry.

--
monique

"Get a bicycle. You will not regret it, if you live."
-- Mark Twain
 
On 2004-08-11, Doug Taylor penned:
> "Monique Y. Mudama" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>I don't want to be racing at 9.2Kft altitude with a stuffed up nose
>>and a headache =/ As if my body weren't handicap enough!
>
> BTDT. My advice after painful bad experience: don't race sick or
> just recovering. Your body is already weak; racing will make it worse
> or cause a relapse. Your results will be worse than hoped or
> expected; that will bum you out. Before a race, you've got to have
> that go-for-it eye-of-the-tiger attitude. If your feeling mentally
> and physically less than 100%, that's a recipe for disaster. Better
> to blow the registration fee than mess yourself up.
>
> OTOH, if you don't get dinged too bad and it's gone enough so you can
> pre-race spin on Saturday with no problem, you might give it a shot.
>
> Best of luck. What a pain in the butt.

Thanks. I am hoping that I'll be well enough to at least go ride on
Sunday. I mean, I already more or less expect to finish last, so how
much worse could riding sick be? At least it gives me an excuse.

What I definitely won't do is ride if I develop inner ear/balance
issues. That would be asking for it.

--
monique

"Get a bicycle. You will not regret it, if you live."
-- Mark Twain
 
On 2004-08-11, Pippen penned:
>
> The rule is if the symptoms are above the neck race (although
> butterflies feel like they are in your stomach they are really in you
> head)! It's your call on the sore throat... Just ask yourself how bad
> will you feel if you don't race? I don't think you are going to find
> any races this convenient for you the rest of the year... The first
> race is always the hardest.
>
> See you Sunday,

The sore throat is my never-fails precursor to every cold -- it's
already fading away. I expect I'll be stuffed up. I wonder if those
nasal sprays would work to temporarily clear things up?

I know I won't find any races this convenient this year, which, when
taking my schedule into consideration, means this is my only race
opportunity all year. I will try my best not to miss it. Especially as
I've been given tons of help by Troy from mtbchick.com ... he's done a
lot of work on my bike and given me a lot of advice and such. I don't
want to let him down by wussing out.

Really, my race is only one lap. One 4.6 mile lap. Worst-case, if I
can't breathe, I'll be out there an hour. And there will be course
marshalls all around in case it turns out I *really* can't breathe.
I've already paid the money ... so I might as well go.

Even if it probably means getting up at 5 or something ridiculous.

--
monique

"Get a bicycle. You will not regret it, if you live."
-- Mark Twain
 
Monique sneezed:

>Victory by attrition? Well, I guess that's only fair.

Nah, you'd still have to work your ass off, but the sports
class-riding-the-beginner-class-assholes might not wanna ride.

>No worry about semi-slicks etc; I'm running the bike exactly as I'm used
>to running it. No uber racing tires or any craziness. I did buy one of
>those baby camelbaks to replace the four megaton pack I usually carry.

I ran semi-slicks for a while. They're fins on a lot of stuff around
here, but not when it gets loose and CERTAINLY not muddy.

I need to get one of those bigguns for my wife. She drinks a LOT of
water out on the trails. Well, at least in comparison to me.

Drink LOTS of vodka, it kills germs that can cause bad death.

--
T o m Dillon
Lakewood, CO
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Stephen Baker wrote:
>
> Monique says:
>
> >It did elicit a chuckle =)
>
> That's a little subnormal for Rog's posts. Usually he ends up owing me a new
> keyboard. ;-)
> Steve "does the name Bridezilla ring a bell?"

ROTFLMAO!

Take one off the tally dang it...<grin>
--
- Rog

http://www.wpcusrgrp.org/~rogerbuchanan/index.html

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Monique says:

>Ugh! I dislike wedding planning so much that I ditched the whole
>concept for my own wedding. We had 11 guests including children, family
>only. Courthouse wedding followed by a catered lunch at the house.

Sounds like my wedding, lo these 28 years ago. Although we had maybe 20 people
at the reception,. ;-)

Lis' wedding is smaller than most, nad she and her fe;l;a have done most of the
planning. I just set a budget, a limit on the number of people I thought could
fit comfortably into my back yard, and the proviso that no-one in the family
does any cooking. So far, it's working.

Now, if I can only get the Rain Gods to change their minds about the
thunderstorms forecast for today and tomorrow... The ceremony itself is to be
atop the cliffs overlooking the ocean.

Steve "Bridezilla may have been an overstatement ;-)"
 
I said:

>... most, nad she and her fe;l;a have done most of the...

So I guess the stress is showing. Time for a ride!

Steve
 
Rog says:

>ROTFLMAO!
>
>Take one off the tally dang it...<grin>

I think we'd better just call it evens. I've been forgiving you at the rate of
one a month while you were "out". ;-)

Steve
 
<Monique Y. MudamaUgh! I dislike wedding planning so much that I ditched the whole
concept for my own wedding. We had 11 guests including children, family
only. Courthouse wedding followed by a catered lunch at the house.
Shopped for and bought the dress a week before the wedding; bought shoes


--
monique

"Get a bicycle. You will not regret it, if you live."
-- Mark Twain>

We had the small wedding too... Courthouse and Linner/Dunch (?) at a nice restaurant... Heck we even had an alt.mtb contingent there...
as compared to a friend of ours who did it to the tune of $40,000...
4 hours and it was over...
Was a lot happier with ours


---> Jimbo...simple plan for a simple man...(san)
 
On 2004-08-12, Sunastar penned:
>
> I need to get one of those bigguns for my wife. She drinks a LOT of
> water out on the trails. Well, at least in comparison to me.

I usually use a blowfish (3L). I've only ever finished it once,
though, and that was on a 7-ish hour ride, and probably only because I
managed to step on the valve and leak water everywhere.

> Drink LOTS of vodka, it kills germs that can cause bad death.

Blegh!

I'm drinking lots of gatorade.

--
monique

"Get a bicycle. You will not regret it, if you live."
-- Mark Twain
 
On 2004-08-12, Stephen Baker penned:
>
> Now, if I can only get the Rain Gods to change their minds about the
> thunderstorms forecast for today and tomorrow... The ceremony itself is to
> be atop the cliffs overlooking the ocean.
>

How's that weather thing working for you?

Good luck and have a great time!

--
monique

"Get a bicycle. You will not regret it, if you live."
-- Mark Twain
 
On 2004-08-12, Jimbo penned:
>
> We had the small wedding too... Courthouse and Linner/Dunch (?) at a nice
> restaurant... Heck we even had an alt.mtb contingent there... as compared
> to a friend of ours who did it to the tune of $40,000... 4 hours and it was
> over... Was a lot happier with ours
>

Yeah ... the manager at the "rehearsal" dinner told us that the waiters were
amazed at how well-behaved everyone was ... and my friend Lora, who took
photos at the wedding and reception, said it was the nicest wedding she'd ever
seen and that she wished she and her husband had done something small like
that.

I guess weddings bring out the worst in a lot of people. A friend of mine had
a really good point -- he said that it's insane to think that people who've
never had to organize a big, formal event in their lives would somehow have
the skills and know-how to organize the "perfect" wedding -- and of course,
the bigger it is, the more perfect it has to be. He also said that so many
women grow up dreaming about their "perfect" wedding that when he does marry,
he'll go along with whatever she wants, even if it's getting married
underwater by a chinchilla.

Now that's an entertaining image ...

--
monique

"Get a bicycle. You will not regret it, if you live."
-- Mark Twain
 
Monique says:

>How's that weather thing working for you?

Heehee... Torrential downpours this morning, thuinder still forecast for this
afternoon/evening. Should be fun! ;-)

>Good luck and have a great time!

No worrries on the latter - thanks for the former.

Steve
 
On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 11:13:15 -0600, Monique Y. Mudama wrote:

> Yeah ... the manager at the "rehearsal" dinner told us that the waiters were
> amazed at how well-behaved everyone was ... and my friend Lora, who took
> photos at the wedding and reception, said it was the nicest wedding she'd ever
> seen and that she wished she and her husband had done something small like
> that.
>
> I guess weddings bring out the worst in a lot of people.

There's a phrase in England, "like a pikey's wedding", which is a metaphor
for a large fight.

> He also said that so many women grow up dreaming about their "perfect"
> wedding that when he does marry, he'll go along with whatever she wants,
> even if it's getting married underwater by a chinchilla.

It's a well known fact that a bloke's job is done after he proposes.
Everything else is sorted out by the bird and her mother. Then all he has
to do is turn up at the altar looking like a penguin.

Actually, a colleague of mine said he went to a wedding where one of the
bridesmaids had not spoken to the bride for 20 years. All of a sudden she
got a call out of the blue asking her to be a bridesmaid, because the
bride had decided she was going to be one when they were friends at the
age of 10. And yet by law, women are still allowed to use knives... ;)
 
"bomba" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> It's a well known fact that a bloke's job is done after he proposes.
> Everything else is sorted out by the bird and her mother. Then all he has
> to do is turn up at the altar looking like a penguin.

Not in my case - I wanted a wedding, not a ****ing fiasco...

> Actually, a colleague of mine said he went to a wedding where one of the
> bridesmaids had not spoken to the bride for 20 years. All of a sudden she
> got a call out of the blue asking her to be a bridesmaid, because the
> bride had decided she was going to be one when they were friends at the
> age of 10.

That's just...wrong...stupid-wrong...

> And yet by law, women are still allowed to use knives... ;)

Not in my damned house.


Shaun aRe
 
On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 14:49:58 +0100, Shaun Rimmer wrote:

>> It's a well known fact that a bloke's job is done after he proposes.
>> Everything else is sorted out by the bird and her mother. Then all he has
>> to do is turn up at the altar looking like a penguin.
>
> Not in my case - I wanted a wedding, not a ****ing fiasco...

Ha! You think you had a say in the matter?

>> Actually, a colleague of mine said he went to a wedding where one of the
>> bridesmaids had not spoken to the bride for 20 years. All of a sudden she
>> got a call out of the blue asking her to be a bridesmaid, because the
>> bride had decided she was going to be one when they were friends at the
>> age of 10.
>
> That's just...wrong...stupid-wrong...

Indeed.

>> And yet by law, women are still allowed to use knives... ;)
>
> Not in my damned house.

<snicker>
 
"bomba" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 14:49:58 +0100, Shaun Rimmer wrote:
>
> >> It's a well known fact that a bloke's job is done after he proposes.
> >> Everything else is sorted out by the bird and her mother. Then all he
has
> >> to do is turn up at the altar looking like a penguin.
> >
> > Not in my case - I wanted a wedding, not a ****ing fiasco...
>
> Ha! You think you had a say in the matter?

Uhhmm, Jon - this is AFTER the fact, so I indeed KNOW I had a say. 'Mum'
in-law to be didn't get a look-in at all. It was 100% Kath's and my decison
making, right down to the last detail, and it turned out utterly wonderful!
',;~}~

> >> Actually, a colleague of mine said he went to a wedding where one of
the
> >> bridesmaids had not spoken to the bride for 20 years. All of a sudden
she
> >> got a call out of the blue asking her to be a bridesmaid, because the
> >> bride had decided she was going to be one when they were friends at the
> >> age of 10.
> >
> > That's just...wrong...stupid-wrong...
>
> Indeed.
>
> >> And yet by law, women are still allowed to use knives... ;)
> >
> > Not in my damned house.
>
> <snicker>

Heheheheh...


Cheers!

Shaun aRe
 
Shaun Rimmer wrote:

> Uhhmm, Jon - this is AFTER the fact, so I indeed KNOW I had a say. 'Mum'
> in-law to be didn't get a look-in at all. It was 100% Kath's and my decison
> making, right down to the last detail, and it turned out utterly wonderful!
> ',;~}~

Am I right in thinking it was Kath's second wedding?
 
"bomba" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Shaun Rimmer wrote:
>
> > Uhhmm, Jon - this is AFTER the fact, so I indeed KNOW I had a say. 'Mum'
> > in-law to be didn't get a look-in at all. It was 100% Kath's and my
decison
> > making, right down to the last detail, and it turned out utterly
wonderful!
> > ',;~}~
>
> Am I right in thinking it was Kath's second wedding?


Nope! 1st and last time for both of us mate ',;~}~



Cheers!

Shaun aRe
 
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