I hope everyone else occasionally has days like this and its not just me. It started out innocently and beautifully enough. It was already 60 degrees when I got up at 7 this morning, and for those of you who don't know Alaska that means its going to be a beautifully hot and sunny day. I had a busy three hours at my morning office job, for once I was actually pretty busy. The trouble started when I went home to get ready for my midday coaching job. Since the weather has been nice here lately I have actually been getting a little sunburnt, and figured that I should probably use some sunscreen today. Just a word of advice to those who wear contacts: Put those contacts in before you put the sunscren on, it burns just a little when you get it in your eyes!! So I was out the door to run wearing my glasses, which is never that much fun. Don't worry, it gets better. I get to the parking lot and as I get out of the car I take my car key off of my key chain to carry with me and leave the rest of the keys in the car. Oh, and I lock the door. But as soon as I close the door I realize that I have the key to my car in my hand, but I was actually driving my mom's car. Crap! Luckily I was coaching a bunch of wonderful motherly women who were more than willing to help me once the workout was over. Another word of advice that I didn't know before: If you bought your car at the dealer within at least the last 5 years they will have your key code on file and can cut you a new key for a quarter of the price it would cost to call a locksmith, who I found out are usually too busy to come rescue you anyways. You have to have someone that will drive you to the dealer to pick up said key, and luckily I did. So now that I have all of that fixed I have taken on the duty of watching a friend's shop/art gallery for the afternoon while they are entertaining visiting family. Luckily it's a sort of quiet place so I'm actually getting some quality knitting/reading time here (and I'm getting paid, it doesn't get much better than that). I'm kind of hoping that I'll get out of my evening coaching session so that I can go do a bike ride with Pam. Which reminds me.....
Pam and I have signed up to do the Ride for Life, July 23 and 24. Have I mentioned this before? Its a 120 mile bike ride from Anchorage, AK to Seward, AK along one of the most beautiful roads in the world (see the pics on the website), and it's for a great cause: The Lance Armstrong Foundation. Here's the deal: I paid my money to enter the race, but I also need a minimum of $200 of pledges/donations before they will let me actually do it. All of the donations goes directly to the foundation, none of it goes through the ride organizers. So, if you are interested let me know, and I'll give you more info.