Travis and I spent tonight packing for Ragbrai, and I believe we are ready! I did 12 miles on Wednesday night, and it seemed fine, and the 15 I did on Sunday felt even better because I went in the morning. Without an entire day's worth of food in my stomach, it was a lot more comfortable on my bike. :) I've got plans worked out to get picked up at halfway points, and plenty of other options in case anything else should go wrong, so I'm feeling very good about it all. Optimism abounds! Now, if I can just keep my energy up. This is going to be an awesome, fun vacation, but I'm going to be exhausted by the time I get home Wednesday night.
My back started aching tonight. I think it's that I was carrying laundry and other things up and down stairs, and I've woken up many times this week on my back. I almost think sleeping on the ground might be good for me since I'll probably be more likely to stay on my side. I feel pretty fortunate to have gotten through 7 months of pregnancy and just now have a minor twinge in my lower back, and I like to credit biking for helping me build/maintain muscles in my back to help ward it off. (I love my bike!)
I have already started preparing for my maternity leave at work. I'm trying to convince my boss that I'm indispensable enough that he'll need to replace me with dedicated manpower through either an intern or contract employee, and he says he's on board but he doesn't act fully convinced. He keeps suggesting these crappy alternatives to "just get by" until I get back, I want to shout at him that he's a moron and if I weren't important, I wouldn't bother getting up to go to work each day. (Okay, I just want to tell him he's a moron, regardless.) I sometimes get very spiteful and think that I won't return to work just to call his bluff and let him see how poorly things go without someone in my position, but it wouldn't be him who suffers or looks bad - it's my coworkers, who are genuinely nice and (although quirky) enjoyable. And of course it's possibly the worst thing to base such a big decision on! But beyond what my boss has control over, I'm approaching pretty much every project at work in the mindset of not being there in 10 weeks. Kind of exciting!
Also exciting - Travis and I bought a carseat this last weekend, which somehow makes us now qualified to take our baby home from the hospital. How crazy is that?!?! A few hundred bucks on some random purchase and we're capable parents?? It feels good to have something major like that checked off the list, and we really like what we got - the whole stroller "travel system". We have also started on our registry at Target, but hardly have anything on it yet. I suppose I really should get on that. Travis said it would be nice if our nursery had a theme instead of being an unmatched assortment of essentials and decorations - typical Johannsen-style of useful and cute individual things, but not purchased for a "together" look. I told him I've never been able to do that and if anything ever looks like it belongs in a room that might be a nursery he should be happy. I doubt that he'll care what the nursery is decorated like once his little kid is at home there. It's fun - we are really getting excited about meeting this lil' peanut (as my childhood violin teacher would say).
... I used to be such a promising lil' peanut! Now I'm just a disposable engineer, who used to play violin and thinks she can be a hot preggo biker chick. Who knew I really had such low, yet diverse aspirations?? :)
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