velomech - I pulled a Hoff move sunday...

08:58 am - I pulled a Hoff move sunday...

twisted my ankle pushing a big piece o shit car. Little bit of swelling. I figured I would take it easy, not ride monday...

So monday rolls around, 7:45 am. Im thinking Im gonna sleep late, go into work for a couple hours, have lunch with code red, and bail early to do some last minutes shopping.

Nope. The wife wakes me up when as she gets home from work. "Scott....Scott, SCOTT!!!"

"hnngh"

"WAKE UP, the dog had puppies under the house!

"WTF?"

So, I get up and go out into the kitchen.

A couple of weeks ago, some scumbag family dropped their pregnant dog off on my street.

We didnt have room in the house for a stray dog, so I kept trying to find a home for her, then I realized she was pregnant. All of a sudden NOONE wanted her, so it was either call animal control and let her get put down with a belly full of pups or make a place in the garage, and heat it, and feed her. We chose option number two.

So, back to how I got woke up. "Dad, I hear puppies cryin...I think they're under the house!"

"What?"

The Hannah woke up to puppies cryin, she has the ears of a ninja.

Over night the dog opened the side door of the garage, and crawled under the house. All the way back into the farthest corner. I have never been under my house. It's dark, and full ofspiders.

I hate spiders.

I have no fear of anything that breathes, snakes, gators, bees, tazmanian devils, fish...nothin. Spiders frak me out. I will put my hand on anything. Grab anything, and will kill anything I have too. Not spiders.

Dont know why, dont care. I dont do spiders.

So, we have lived in this house 8 years. I have never been under the house. Not even to brace the floor, and belive me, the floor NEEDS bracing. It was built in 73. So, she sags. and creeks. Pretty bad in some places. Despite all of the wifes begging and pleading, I have put it off. "spiders honey"

Well, it's 35 degrees outside on monday. The kids are pleading for me to go in and get the dog and puppies. Im like "No way, they'llbe fine, theyre animals, they have been doing this longer than us, theyll be fine."

The hannah looks up at me, her eyes starting to water, Sarah is pleading with me, and Deb, she is just watching to see if I man up and do the nasty.

"Dammit" I say, YAY!!! says hannah, Sarah who would normally be all over me for saying Dammit, is so happy it goes right by.

I gho and grab my garage overalls, and a flashlight. It's pitch black. After I got a fott into it, I realized Im crawling on sharp rocks and pieces of wood splinters...even some old tin cans...and Im surrounded by hanging insulation...Im gonna die.

I get to the dog, named sandy, by us, because of her color. Shes panting and worried.
I thought she was gonna have abround 3 or 4 puppies. I start counting...1....2.....3......4...5? holy crap....WTF....6.......7.....................8.....8 freakin puppies? Are you kiddin me?

8 dogs! I went from owning one dog, two owning TEN! all in a week!

Nice.
So, I grab a puppy and bring it out side. I repeat this process 8 times. my knees an elbows are killing me. Just so you know, when Igot in the shower, my knees were bleeding...

So, now, I have a dog in the kitchen nursing 8 puppies, Yay me.

So that was monday. Xmas rolled around on tuesday, as you know. Kids had an awesome xmas. I get such a kick out of watching them. It's amazing.

Deb got me a nice bottle of wine and a book, Ill be busy for days.

I got her some Cd's she wanted...we keep it cheap between her and I, We do enough for each other throughout the year and Xmas is for the kids, to be honest.

So, My ankle was feeling ok yesterday, and I was feeling fat, and lazy, real fat. So, I got on the road bike, cuz all of the trails were wet and closed. I did the shop ride, which is around 55 miles. For the fist 30 minutes I was trying real hard not to get off and go home. Then all of a sudden, like a switch, I got happy. I enjoeyed the rest of the ride alot.

I think if I stay off teh bike for a day or two, then I focus on the stress and negativity that I have to deal with, and I dont want to do anything. Except lay around. Watch Rally videos on the laptop.

I think this may happen every winter...Im not sure.

So, THE SNAKE is this saturday, Ill be able to gauge my form. Im actually not looking forward to it. I have been waiting since september for it to get here. I have been training like mad. dieting, eating, sleeping, riding. For the last week, I havent wanted anything to do with it.

Wierd. I lost all motivation to race. I think it will pass. I hope it will pass. I want to be motivated and happy to ride my bike. I like to pedal in anger. I like being put in pain by guys, and putting guys in pain. I dont inflict as much pain as gets inflicted on me though.

Still, it's fun.

So, I didnt train this week as I should have for a race on saturday. Im gonna stay off the bike today, and ride easy on friday...get some good sleep. head out to the snake friday night, get a hotel with someone, or camp....

Gotta get to work early...hit the jobs section....I need to find a part time job....night probably. Get some bills paid off.



cheers and beers
Hodge