Solo ride

So, I've put myself in a position where I'm too dependent on Michael. I bet a lot of you never thought that would happen. I've always been so independent, almost to a fault. It always exasperated my dad anyway. :) I was eager to be able to rely on someone else for a change, but I guess I need to find my own "place" in Austin and start doing things on my own. I've been relying on Michael for bike rides and social plans (I think I'm okay with everything else--finding my way around, etc.). I sometimes wonder where I would be if I was still in Omaha. Probably at a new job, since the one at Medical Solutions was starting to go downhill... I probably would have started up again with the last guy I dated, and we'd probably be broken up by now, haha... I'd have more money, that's for damn sure... probably be the proud new owner of a Kuota Kebel (a bike)... and, of course, I'd still be unwilling to let go of my independence. I'm having a really hard time finding a happy-medium there. If I had moved to a city where I didn't know anybody, the only thing different is that I would be a little lonelier than I am now, though there are times here that I feel very alone and isolated. But I'd probably have no trouble finding places to ride and groups to ride with.

So I went on a solo bike ride, and I had fun. I went maybe 22 miles on a stretch of road that, for the most part, I love to ride. I rode very well, and ran into a lot of other cyclists. My average speed was probably around 17 for the most part. I'm going to try to do this ride alone once a week, on the weekends. I have to do it early, though, for two reasons: the weather and the traffic.

I've been walking Jaiden a lot, and the diet has been okay. I didn't do so well today, hehe...

I got an e-mail from Meghan, the girl that I used to work with who quit. Meghan is really the only friend I have here in Austin, so my social life is not what I want it to be. I'm happy staying in alone sometimes, but not all the time. I'm just not the kind of person that can go out and meet people. I have a few really close friends rather than a lot of "good" friends. Anyway, Meghan invited me to some music show tonight. For some reason, I don't really want to go (I'm not a big music show kind of person), but I guess if I'm going to go out and do things, I might as well jump on it now while the fire's hot. Or something. So I called her and left a message.

I finally got my dishwasher replaced. I had been having problems with the older one. It made loud sounds, and leaked all over the kitchen floor. No damage, but it was a pain. The new one has an odd, kind of moldy smell to it. Yuck. I'm hoping that'll go away in a few weeks.

I pre-ordered the fourth book in the Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer, along with another one of her books. My sister-in-law was kind enough to get me hooked. :) She gave me the first book for my birthday, and I was so busy with the move that I didn't get a chance to read it until about a month ago. I did pick it up about a month prior to that, read the first few lines, and thought, "Hm, that sounds like it might be a good read." Little did I know... It's an obsession, I tell ya.

I got my grandparents' clock back, and it stopped working, so I took it back. Silly me, it just needed to be rewound. So I set it again this afternoon. And it stopped working 20 minutes later. Arrrgh...