I’m going to give you a little break and blog about something other than my laptop which has finally shipped, but is still stuck somewhere in Shanghai. All I’m going to say is, I’m a little disappointed with Fed Ex’s performance in China.

As you know, I work from home a couple days a week. Up until this week I worked from home on Tuesdays and Thursdays. That schedule rocked because it gave me a lot of variety; one day in the office, next at home, then in the office, then at home…you get my point. Plus nobody is in the office on Fridays so it’s a great day to be there. It was just me in my cube rocking out to Blondie on my iPod. Although, with nobody there, it did make it difficult to gossip. It just wasn’t the same when I told myself I saw “Cute Kevin” in the elevator. Myself always seemed to already know. Weird.

But this week I changed my schedule so I work from home on Wednesdays and Fridays. At the beginning of the summer Lee and I got out on our bikes a couple days a week. But that quickly died off as Lee had softball three to four nights a week. Now softball is pretty much over and Lee’s worried he’s going to get his winter gut on. So he wants to go for bike rides on my lunch break. He has class over lunch on Tuesdays and Thursdays so I had to switch my days. Yeah, you heard me right. I switched my work-at-home days so I could exercise. Who does that?

Today was our first bike ride. I put on my cute matching purple Champion shorts and sports bra, threw a headband on and was ready to go. We didn’t even make it three blocks from our house and I could already feel a burn in my thighs. Lee asked jokingly, “How long have we been riding?” I groaned, “About three minutes.”

Lee was navigating and about 25 minutes in to the ride [I'm totally guessing here because neither of us brought a watch] he took us up a super duper, gigantic, enormous, monster of a hill. When I’m in my car it’s just an incline, but when I’m on a bike and my thighs are burning it’s Mount Everest. I gasped, “I’m not going to make it. Go on without me.” [Because I'm melodramatic like that.] Lee turned around and laughed at me.

I finally made it up the hill. Without having to get off the bike and walk it up the hill. And without even crying. It was quite an accomplishment.

The rest of the ride wasn’t too bad. We had a few hills but nothing as bad as that first hill. I did have to stand up to pedal on the bike a couple times because I am a total wimp, but you’ll have that. In all, we rode our bikes for an hour. And I survived. I expect my thighs to be perfectly shapely and super model like by tomorrow.

After we parked our bikes in the house, I started to walk inside. Only my thighs were having none of it. I nearly fell flat on my face. I think I heard my legs screaming, “For the love of all things holy woman…SIT DOWN.” But I finally made it in the house.

I was trying to be all big about it. Like “yeah I can totally ride my bike for an hour” because Lee was being all macho. But between me and you…Lee totally kicked my ass on that bike ride. I am not discouraged though. Give me a couple weeks and I’ll be wiping the sidewalk with him.

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