Today I mourn the demise of my black bra - the most comfortable bra I own. I guess a decade of service is a pretty full career for a bra (no pun intended). I'm feeling a little guilty about the unceremonious way I tossed it in the trash - my domestic skills do not include mending. But for all you folk with reggies thinning to transparent, ripped, stretched and worn, exposed elastic fraying, cotton wisps unravelling, sagging where it shouldn't, maybe clinging where modesty would prefer a little more sag - go out and buy some new underwear, live a little.

Boy, is howie ever grumpy today!

I may have a coach now, but the process seems harder than securing a bank loan - background check, previous races, injury history, goals. and then there's the training...
Fortunately I am too busy this week to worry about anything. I'm guessing monday night practise will be a gruelling account of everything we did wrong this weekend, Tuesday is a 24hr ride along with the Okotoks ambulance, Wednesday is off to Seattle for the remainder of the week. oh yeah, and the people, pooches, pets and packing that go along with this deal. Do I sound a little overwhelmed? I haven't had a coffee yet.

This place gives me the creeps.

Can't remember where you left your husband? You're not having a senior moment, you need to TAKE a senior moment. really.

Lastly, where is gerg? I last saw him 36 hours ago, if he doesn't come back I can keep the car right?

Why did I dress like a police officer today? Well maybe a police officer that has been roughing it in a kennel, but still, as I passed the big mirror in the bathroom I had to question the choice to wear navy cargo pants and a white T-shirt. yikes!

The search is over and no stinky dead guy - but a stinky dead guy's passport, yes. Whilst searching the ditches for signs of the two "victims" my team was sent to look for, I found something else - and it was from a real case. The police had to come by and check the spot where I found it! It made the dressed dummy at the end of the search seem not as exciting.

Lichen worked really well once she worked out what we were meant to be doing. She worked so hard that her back leg was spasming when we got back to camp. Like an idiot I hauled out her fluffy bed so she could rest her legs while reclining by the outdoor fire (something the other team members made sure to comment on). Come to think of it she was a pretty good dog all day, except when she ate my lunch.

I passed my motorcycle test, I am licensed to kill. I guess to be statistically accurate, I am licensed to be killed. One person in our group did not pass the test. He insisted on doing a figure 10 instead of a figure 8, I think on one attempt he just did a big donut twice - it must have been test day nerves.

Now on to my next challenge, the Canmore mock search. I hope I don't blurt out something inappropriate infront of the "victim's" family. I guess "I found a stinky dead guy in that open field" would upset the next of kin, hunh?

And on the second last day of instruction...
Had a terrifying ride down tenth, up 5th Ave, somehow ending up on memorial to Shaganappi, around the University and then back to SAIT - All on a 250cc yamaha. There's something a little unsettling about a semi-prepared gaggle of motorcyclists being let loose at 4pm in the downtown area.

I think my Reverend Horton Heat shirt distracted the instructor, it had mild shock value at Tim Horton's earlier this morning. Must be something about busty women with horns.

Just counting down the days...

Placing three dogs and three cats in a kennel for 5 days is costly, I think I can get a return trip to London for that price.

Hi, can I be your best friend for today?

Yesterday gerg made a soft splint for Tanya Tucker.

This is not an ugly dog

Who's the best dog in the world? Lichen! LICHEN!

I feel good...

I just walked to the kitchen to dump my cold cup of coffee and had to stop halfway cause the room was spinning. I think I need more sleep.

For the last two nights in a row I've had a bowl of cornchips for dinner. yeah summer.

hee hee ha ha ho ho