say goodbye to dr. pepper

I decided to give up soda. At least for as long as I can. We'll see how long it lasts. Coffee, on the other hand, now that I will never give up.

I went riding with my brothers and bf yesterday. Of course they left me behind, which was what I wanted. Helps me focus on my own pace, meaning going 13 mph without having someone say "hurry up Dre!" I changed my stem and put my seat up higher thanks to the advice of Raul, the Mexican cycling veteran I met around the loop. The first thing he said to me was "left left left!" and I smiled, laughed, and yelled sorry as he swished past me. He came back around and told me to put it in a lighter gear and gave me other useful pointers. I guess not all spandex clad cyclists are assholes!

I woke up last night with a throbbing migraine. The kind that makes you cry because it hurts so much. I haven't had one in a very long time so this was rather interesting to me. I ended up taking some tylenol, then a mild sedative to calm me down. Before I slept I was reading Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (yeah, yeah, yeah). It was almost as if someone hexed me for about an hour and a half in the middle of the night because I woke up feeling completely fine like it had never happened.