Monday, August 16, 2010

Biking Through the Heebie Jeebies

This past weekend was my 20th high school reunion, which meant that the past week was filled with get togethers with friends from childhood and high school, very late nights up laughing (very late night on Saturday laughing and drinking) then lazing at the movies yesterday to recover from it all before going to bed early last night.

I did manage to squeeze in a yoga class on Friday morning (yay core), then a quick mountain bike ride on Friday afternoon. After yoga I stopped into a make up store for some powder and ended up letting the make up artist give me an entire made up face. Here you can see how well it held up through the ride. Notice the bronzed cheeks and the smokey eye. And the creepy bunker I'm standing in.


The place we bike was used as an ammunition depot during World War II, so it is full of creepy bunker and weird things. I often get the heebie jeebies while biking there, but it has good trails.

Can you see the bunker through the woods?


And the thing about the heebie jeebies is that they feed on themselves. So, even though you know that probably there is not a dead body around the corner, and there are not ghosts wandering the bunkers (some of which reminded me of concentration camps for some reason) the HJ's were throwing off my mad skilz and the ride felt sort of choppy. Add that to the fact that J. and I aren't the best map readers and kept going in circles... we've seen better days.

Then my late nights and the rum caught up to me and I felt too crappy to ride yesterday which meant I missed out on a 2.5 hour ride. Majorly bummed. But at least the next reunion isn't for 5 more years, and I'll write myself a little note to not have any rum and cokes. (This is how lame I am, I had one and then gave my friend half of the second one because it was too strong.)

Oh, and I found an apartment! I was going to write about it - telling you about all the ones I looked at, and the one I almost settled for and how I almost didn't even go look at this one because it was billed as an upscale, high end condo and surely I don't deserve to live in one of those, but then I visited it, and it was so right, and even though there were 8 other people looking at it she picked me! and it's across the street from the ocean, and has a fire place and central air and hard wood floors and gorgeous kitchen and is so perfect. But, I didn't write about it, so you'll just have to imagine that I did.

Big hike coming up on Friday. Trying to put last minute training plan into place.

2 comments:

sarah said...

your new apartment sounds really wonderful - and it makes me happy to think of you so close to the water, with nice surroundings. i know what you mean about hj around bunkers .. had that feeling in northern france and in gettysburg too. knowing that terrible things happened in a place, feeling the vibrations even as the soil and trees make every effort to just be and grow. mostly it is the depth of human despair i think that adds that gloom even in a sunny field. is it illusion or imagination? i don't know. it feels more like authentic energies coming through. like feeling the sacredness in a place.

sarah said...

your new apartment sounds really wonderful - and it makes me happy to think of you so close to the water, with nice surroundings. i know what you mean about hj around bunkers .. had that feeling in northern france and in gettysburg too. knowing that terrible things happened in a place, feeling the vibrations even as the soil and trees make every effort to just be and grow. mostly it is the depth of human despair i think that adds that gloom even in a sunny field. is it illusion or imagination? i don't know. it feels more like authentic energies coming through. like feeling the sacredness in a place.