Played football yesterday. Left ankle twisted, but after 3minutes rest, I was able to carry on. I got a few knocks and my L waist muscle is not fully healed ( My L waist muscle caused me to stop playing early last Sunday - 21Jan07. It just happened - no sudden turn, no knock). I played the full game yesterday 27Jan07.

My L waist muscle caused me to pull out early again today (at 4pm, we started at 2.30pm). Hopefully a week of footy rest will help.

My L elbow still twinges. I warm up achilles and thighs before playing now. I warm down too.

Not heard anything from Lisa. I still look for her when I'm in town. Can't get the chick outta my mind.

Sister is back in work. She's increasing her hours slowly - from part time, to half days, to 3/4 days, etc.). The lil guy keeps growing - so fast.

All would seem to be well....seem :)

3 in the same Day.


Water lay everywhere along my path to work. I was only 1minute out of my house when I had my first accident. I was cycling along having narrowly missed a couple of people. I was speeding along, on my peddlebike, on a straight part of the path when suddenly my front wheel starts slipping. To my left are some large boulder which the the owners of the building have decide are suitable decorations. I try and control my skid so as to vear away from the boulders. Suddenly I am falling, I am now skidding along on my back and am still heading from the boulders. I am still holding onto the bike and the wheels are in the air. For some reason my only concert is to ensure the wheels do not impact the boulders. All is still. I have stopped skidding. I am on the floor and the bike is still between by legs with the wheels in the air. I have not hit the boulder. I get up, I seem ok. I check my bike - only the back mudguard seems to be affected. I adjust it. My right knee is sending signals of concern. I lift up my leg covers and find I am bleeding from my right knee - the skin is peeled away but it's not bad enough nor bleeding enough to stop me getting to work.

I get back on my bike and continue my journey to work. Half way I encounter a bike heading the other way. The cyclist is looking down so I vear right to avoid him. He then looks up and veers in my direction. I apply brakes and he shouts out "NO BREAKS". We touch handlebar but stay on our respective bikes. We say our apologies and I cycle away.

Finally the worst accident happened on my way home. I'd had some adreniline close shaves soon after leaving work but this just spurred me on to greater risks. I am speeding along on the pavement approaching a busy crossroad. The road crossing my path is full of cars left and right. A bus is approaching but I judge that if i speed up I can make it across the junction before it gets there. What I totally forgot/didn't account for is that it's 2 lanes of traffic going left and 2 lanes of traffic going right. As I get ahead of the bus I encounter a car crossing my path. My front wheel gets crushed, I end up on the left side of the bonnet. I watch as I somehow dismount my bike and watch the back wheel swing away from me heading, in a circle for the right-front side of the car (with the bike front wheel acting as a pivot). In my head I am saying "don't let the back wheel hit the car". Luckily I am OK. The bike front wheel is a gonner. The car appears OK. Some clip on panel has fallen off and is retrieved by the driver. He asks if I'm OK, He checks his car, He gives me words of advice. I am obviously wearing my usual grin.
He says, "I could have killed you, don't laugh".
I say, "I am grinning because I am still alive". He gets back in his car and drives off. I head for home pushing my bike (balanced on the back wheel) home.

Happy New Year Welcome 2007

Emotionally 2006 has been a nightmare of a year. Physically too, when I think about it - I had almost forgotten the groin strain injuries, but I am physically fitter than this time last year and only yesterday scored 5 goals. But at least when it comes to close family and friends, touch wood, its been stable.

I rang Lisa just before Xmas She didn 't remember me. She sounded like she was well into a bottle of wine. I asked if she 'd recieved the flowers I sent she had and thanked me. She 's going home, Portugal, for Xmas. I wished her the best and feeling her discomfort said bye and hung up. I was a little in shock at having been forgotten.

My cousin, in canada, sent me a HI5 invitation. I decided to resurrect my old account and informed HI5. They reactivated it and I invited my cousin to be a friend. I then discovered a friendship invitation, from Lisa, dated a OCT 2006 . I acceded to her friendship request.

I missed her over the Xmas period. I cycled past her house and saw windows open. So I knocked on the door. The landlord answered and told me "They " had gone back home. I am assuming the other person is Lisa 's sister but don 't know for sure.

I am trying to live by the old adage "Carpe diem " and life is too short for nuroses. Everything to gain and the repurcussions can 't be as bad as the endless circles the thoughts keeps going around in.

I dropped her a card today, with my feelings let loose from my heart and put down in perpetuity on a single A 4. The A 4 contained within a Pink Card with various colour feltip pens used to further my cause. However, when I posted it through her letter box it landed on the floor. The problem lies in the fact that this is her outer door, leading to the back garden and has no roof. This means as soon as my card landed on her floor it started getting wet, as it is raining here and she has no roof between her inner door and outer door. Sometimes I think that life is a hollywood script.
The thing with feelings is they are like animals in a cage. They go stir crazy when kept in captivity. So they gotta be let out. So sometimes you punch a bag, drive crazy, cycle crazy or run hard(but that is like bad surgery - like crying in the kids movie; Monsters inc). What I did today, i feel, is like keyhole surgery - applied straight to the point best suited for best results (like laughter in Monster Inc). Weird is the beast that is me :).

Wow first blog post of 2007.

Hey I am attending college, part time. Prior to the Xmas break, we all went out for a meal and a nightclub. One of the girls described my dancing as being with Patrick Swayze (brings a smile to my face each time). They even tried guessing my age (29 she said and that was before my dancing).