• 19:53 apologizes for the Owned! spending spree! #
• 21:08 Blogging "skydiving" antihope.livejournal.com/361676.html #
• 23:18 is getting very sleepy #

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I want to go skydiving again. On May 31st, a group of people are planning on going skydiving where I can do my very own jump (without a monkey on my back!) It would entail 6ish hours of training, and then I get to jump. Not much freefall (but, really, I don't think I like the freefall all that much). The tandem jump was fun, and I'm glad I did that first, but I think being able to do the floaty stuff by myself would be great (and that's the part I really liked). Sadly, I'll either miss or be late for a birthday dinner. But, maybe there will be birthday drinking afterwards.

I also have more plans for my birthday weekend of bikeriding doom. The MS Pennsylvania Dutch Bike Tour will be the weekend before my birthday (July 22). So, my plans are currently to ride the first half, eat tasty buffet (very highly recommended) and then sleep in a cozy hotel with a jaccuzi and boyfrand, then ride the return trip without dying. This bike tour will be significantly harder than the City to Shore, since this one is chock full of hills. I think I'm going to start some training rides very soon.

I'm still taking donations or new group members:
http://bikepae.nationalmssociety.org/site/TR?px=1771092&pg=personal&fr_id=7551

I'm still trying to track calories, etc on FitDay and SparkPeople. Calories vary a bit, up to 200 calories between them. Even for exercise. I've been exhausted alllll day. Felt like sleeping.. I think I'lll get to bed early. Tomorrow will be a crazy long day. Getting home at 11pm is super late. But, only a few weeks. I can survive. It's crazy to think that's what it will be like for nursing school if I go to Harcum while working. One night of classes, two of clinical. Not sure what else to write. I guess I'll take a shower, drink fake t and a cup of wine, and get to bed.

• 07:57 Blogging "not enough sleep" antihope.livejournal.com/360379.html #
• 13:33 Why do i feel like texting in the bathroom? #
• 22:39 was scared blog it went down for upgrades! #
• 23:15 is charging her solar power thingie on the halogen lamp #
• 23:26 should get to bed already #
• 23:36 Blogging "yoga?" antihope.livejournal.com/360621.html #
• 23:58 Blogging "MS Bike Tours" antihope.livejournal.com/360763.html #

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I'm going to try to plug for some donations to the National MS Society. I have $250 minimums for two rides:

The Pennsylvania Dutch Tour
http://bikepae.nationalmssociety.org/site/TR?px=1771092&pg=personal&fr_id=7551


The City to Shore Tour
http://bikepae.nationalmssociety.org/site/TR?px=1771092&pg=personal&fr_id=8150

Both rides are raising money for the local (tri-state) chapter of the National MS Society. They provide assistance to local people living with MS, as well as offer research grants to find effective treatments and perhaps a cure.

I'm looking for donations, people that want to join either team, (I'm going to start setting up some training rides) - but I think you can join a team and just volunteer without having to actually bike the routes.

I'm sleepy. I wonder if I can get to the morning yoga thing at the gym. I can take the train in, do yoga (starts at 8:30), get to work, take the train home. I'm feeling a bit beat up from getting back in to biking, and it's nice to have a day offa school. Sad I won't get much sleep, though. I wonder if I can muster leaving the house by 7:30 if I wake up at my usual time - 3 alarm clocks between 6:45 and 7:15 with snooze snooze snooze. It would be nice to get the morning yoga done, though, and have a day offa biking. Two weekdays off would be nice (wed and Friday) and then doing a training ride on the weekends would be super, and mebbe try running. I managed a whole mile (well, almost - gave up on the hill at the end). Right now, my legs are just sore. And I think I'm too dehydrated to drink wine - I wake up groggy sometimes.

School seems okay so far. Class is starting dreadfully late since the classroom is in a computer room that needs to be unlocked before we can begin. Not sure why he needs a computer room to show us a power point presentation when he could just as easily get a laptop with projector in any other room. Not sure how it'll go. I want an A, of course, so I guess I hafta study. BLEH. When can I crochet if I'm studying?

Class has begun. So far so good? My professor uses power point like it's going out of style. Nothing fancy, mostly text, a few scanned pictures thus far. Took like an hour to get into the room, though. Heard mixed things about the prof. We're studying blood. Hopefully this means I can ace my first exam. Five exams, one is dropped. I don't know about anything else in the grading policy. Seven week classes can be a challenge. But, I should get it done quickly enough.

Today FitDay and SparkPeople are 100 calories or so different.

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And in the morning.. (I forgot to post last night). I'm, well, tired. 6 hours of sleep isn't enough. I really shouldn't get to bed at 1am. Doesn't give me enough sleep, and then I wake up like I am now, grogggy. I gotta get organized to run off to workie.

• 23:36 getting home at 11pm twice a week will be.. tiring... #

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• 13:34 should do laundry. #
• 14:54 thinks it's a slow LJ day. #
• 17:16 been to cloudy to test the solar charger #
• 17:17 did the laundry (super exciting) #
• 21:40 Blogging "fitness and school" antihope.livejournal.com/359658.html #
• 23:25 bad weather means bad innerwebs #

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Decided I'd try one of those online fitness sites. I could/should still probably go back to FitDay. I think it had more info. But, here's my new site, sparkpeople
http://www.sparkpeople.com/mypage.asp?id=shyrie

My Fit Day is still here:
http://www.fitday.com/WebFit/PublicJournals.html?Owner=molecular

Today, assuming I don't eat anything else, I somehow managed to get both the Fit Day and SparkPeople calories to be almost exact. I wonder how often that will happen (as they weren't the same before dinner).

Tomorrow is my first day of my summer class. It's going to rain. All day. It'll be raining from when I venture out to class to when I get home. It'll be kinda chilly, too (in the 40s). I need to 'plan' my first day of school outfit (heh). I'm thinking full bike pants, plus waterproof pants, keen sandals (any shoes would get drenched). Not sure what the best bet for keeping my backpack stuff dry is. The cover for it hasn't been working so well. The 40s are nice, as I can bundle up a bit to stay dry.