Hope you all had a great weekend. Mine was absolutely packed and fabulous. Filled to the brim with friends and creativity and organic produce and scooter crashes.
Well, the scooter crash part was not fabulous, but the ramifications were mercifully brief. I was teaching a friend to ride, and toward the end of her second lesson, she let up the clutch too fast and the Frankenstella popped a wheelie. She grabbed the throttle to keep her balance and flipped the bike upside down, on top of her foot. Angels to the rescue -- she was not terribly harmed and sustained a painful sprain with black & blue but so far no broken bones or enduring injuries. The Stella got a bit beat up, and had to be towed back to Sound Speed for some repairs, but she was returned to me quickly with only cosmetic scars. They banged out most of the dents in the steel and buffed the scrapes where they could. She is a city scooter, and a "daily driver", so I couldn't expect her showroom condition to last for long. I just wish those chrome crash bars and cowl protectors I had on order arrived sooner rather than later. But my love and worship of the kids at Sound Speed has reached idol proportions and I unhesitatingly recommend them for all your two-wheeled needs. In fact, I'd like to bring them home and make them breakfast.
Saturday morning I met with my intolerably adorable personal trainer who fully whipped my ass, or rather, my upper-body, so I had a difficult time even tying my shoes yesterday. She is an entire foot shorter than I, and barely 100 pounds, and she could probably bench press me with one hand. She's a professional dancer. I feel like an elephant underwater around her. But it's good to be challenged. She told me I could eat ice cream if I wanted, but I had to run up Queen Anne Ave. to get it. I'll stick to eating strawberries on my couch.
My remaining foster cats got adopted on Saturday, just in time; I had put in for a transfer to a new foster home for them since Boy Former is moving to a smaller residence. Fostering has been an amazing, heart-breaking, fulfilling experience so filled with mixed emotions. I won't hesitate to do it again, when I have the appropriate space. It has put me in touch with the people I need to meet in order to remain hopeful in the world of animal rescue -- the folks willing to bypass the barfy-cute kittens in favor of bonded adults with Known Issues. The pay-off has been so enormous for me when we finally place the cats in their new home. It restores my dwindling faith in humanity.
I decided not to participate in National Novel Writing Month this time around as creative writing is not in my Top Five this quarter. I am, however, starting at University of Washington in January for the Multimedia Production and Design program, which I'm tres excited about. I will learn Flash and advanced web programming and other graphic design fun. My head is already doing cartwheels over the projects I will be able to tackle once I have those skills at my disposal. I may even get work to pay my tuition. Also in my Top Five right now is swing dancing, and I am in the market for a class or studio worth looking into. Let me know if you have any suggestions.
Oh and I'm going to this really cool seminar series at the Burke Museum -- Yellowstone to Yukon. Grizzlies, wolves and lynx -- oh my!
More to follow... but I've got some piles of leaves to go jump in.
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