#80 Triple Play

No, I'm not talking about baseball, I'm talking about babies. As in triplets. Yesterday I went to a birthday party for one year-old triplets. A co-worker of mine, Lori, and her husband, added triplets to their existing family of three (them and a 4 year-old daughter). I think someone had a history of twins in their family - they didn't take any drugs or have any other procedures done. I saw them a few weeks after they were born and they were the tiniest babies I'd ever seen. They are all doing great and it was a fun party. My hat is off to Lori. It's always off to mothers, but having four little ones deserves more recognition.

#79 Hit and Run Update

I heard from my insurance company today and they found the guy who hit my car. Yeah! He told them he has insurance. Even if he doesn't, my uninsured coverage will cover my deductible! Woo hoo!!

Now I just have to keep hounding the IMPD about my hit and run report. Mind you, this happened April 30. I was told it takes 8-10 days to process a report. As of yesterday, no report had even been filed. I've left four messages for the responding officer to call me back. Nothing. Today I'm going to try the commander. I told the woman on the phone that I was going to drive to the office and wait for the officer.

Stay tuned for more information...

#78 Bike To Work Day

Today is national Bike To Work Day. Did I ride my bike to work today? Heck no. There is a 60 percent chance of rain. I do support biking, but don't enjoy riding in the rain.

Speaking of riding in the rain, I decided to ride to work yesterday for my own bike to work day. The forecast said 20 percent chance of rain. I had a lovely ride in to work. The mornings are my favorite part. The neighborhoods are quiet, you can smell the grass and the flowers, there is less traffic and the temperatures are cooler. After I arrived at work I heard that there would be afternoon showers. What?! The radar looked bad, but by 4:30 still no rain. At 4:50 I looked out the window...RAIN. I had an offer for a ride home, but declined. I feel bad making someone go out of their way to take me home when I made the choice to ride to work. I'm a big girl. It actually wasn't too bad going home. The rain was fairly light and I didn't get too wet. I bought a rear fender a few weeks ago and haven't put it on yet. I was more mad about that than anything. The back/butt gets most of the grit. Two years ago I rode home in a downpour. Give thanks in everything!

This is my third year of biking to work. When I first started it took me around 45 minutes (it's about 7 miles each way). Last year I sped up to around 40 minutes. Yesterday it took me 34 minutes to work and around 35 back home. I don't remember exactly, but I think those are records!

Congrats to all who rode to work today! You are a better rider than I. A special shout out to Denise, who I know rode to work today. Way to go D!! :-)

#77 eHarmony Part Deux

I'm always amazed when I get comments on my blog (how do people find it?) and I got another one Monday from an actual eHarmony employee. It was very nice and I do appreciate the comments. However, I stand by my complaint that they do not let people search by height. That is a very important component!!

#76 Living in Imperfect eHarmony

Today I am coming out...I am on eHarmony! I joined in December. After being on it a week or so I did "communicate" with one guy from Ohio who was 6'5". You can read about how that turned out in Post No. 64. About a month after that, I communicated with a guy from Illinois who was 6'6". After e-mailing for a couple weeks I commented on him being in his church's praise band, and that, being a conservative Lutheran, I didn't really care for them. I did it in a somewhat joking manner. He must not have thought so - I never heard from him again. Poof...

My review of eHarmony will include the good, the bad, the ugly.

Good - I feel that people on this site are maybe a little more interested in having a long-term relationship, as opposed to just dating around. It also seems like a more Christian-based site.

Bad - You cannot search on this site. You fill out the questionnaire and they send matches to you every week or so. You can request communication with them or close them.

Ugly - Since you cannot search on this site, you cannot weed out short men. Sorry to be so blunt, but that's life. I have received maybe five matches in my height range. After noticing dating categories on the bottom of their Web page (Jewish dating, black dating) I sent an e-mail to them about having a tall dating category. Their response: "Because the core of our matching is based on the 29 Dimensions of Compatibility, height is not used as part of our matching process as it has not been shown to impact long-term relationship happiness. If we were to have a setting to restrict height, you may miss out on a wonderful match that was only slightly shorter than what you had specified." My response to them - if you can restrict on the basis of skin color and religion, then Christians are missing out on some wonderful Jews, and white people are missing out on some wonderful black people.

I currently have reviewed 387 matches. Of those, I communicated with two and met one. I am 0-2.

In conclusion, if I were a "normal" woman, this might not be a bad site. For someone with my specificities, it is a bad site. Am I too picky? I don't think so. I want what I want. And I usually get what I want. ;-)

#75 Live From New York...It's Saturday Night!

May 15 marked the season finale of Saturday Night Live. It premiered in October 1975. I started watching regularly in college (around 1986) and now tape it every week. Even though its had its ups and downs over the years, I have been a faithful follower. There's a small part of me that wishes I'd tried to do something like that career-wise. Gone to Chicago to Second City and eventually to SNL. I think I have the wit and spontaneity. I don't know about creating characters though. Maybe I could've learned how to do that. After college and my short basketball career I had no idea what I wanted to do and that would've been the perfect time. No house. No job with benefits. The only thing was that at age 28, I didn't have the confidence. And honestly, it didn't even occur to me to try it.

Even though I think about this now and then, I have no regrets in how my life has turned out so far. I have a wonderful family and have enjoyed being around to watch Aaron and Megan grow up. I have awesome friends ("old" and new) that I've shared fun times with. I believe that God has led me to be exactly where I am. And I have my own captive audience at work who reaps the benefits (if I may be so bold to call it that!) of my twisted humor. I have re-created many an SNL character at work Halloween contests!

I took a tour once of 30 Rockefeller Center, stopping briefly to bow in front of Molly Shannon's dressing room door. I also stood in line for hours to get a ticket to stand in line again for many more hours to get in to see a dress rehearsal of SNL. I was about three people away from getting in. Agh! One day I WILL make it to a show, whether I'm on it or not. :-)

#74 Attack of the Giant Boyfriends

I just read an article on "OMG" about celebrity couples with considerable height differences. Not fair!!! Click on the post title to read the article. Not that I'm jealous of Miley Cyrus, but why is it that really tall guys seem to gravitate toward really tiny girls?