Inquiring minds want to know...

Well, that's not completely true. Not that many people have asked, but a few people HAVE wondered what the kanji writing on my page means. Or, more correctly, if I knew what it meant. Puh-leeze! Like I'd put something on my page and NOT know what it was? C'mon now...really.

GemmaK, the oh so awesome page designer, sent me stuff to look at for ideas for the page. I fell in love with the symbol as soon as I saw the meaning. The mouse click and choice was a total impulse, but the look and the words just grabbed me. Know what I mean?


SPIRIT, MIND, FORCE

I was watching a late night re-run of a recent interview of Kristen Armstrong, Lance Armstrong's ex, on Oprah just a while ago. She spoke about losing herself in her marriage.

It made me think of my blog page and my reading. Things I do just for myself. My spirit, my mind, my force. There have been times I've felt lost to myself. Where I felt like a stranger in my own body. It still happens sometimes.

One true thing...women have to fight much harder than men do to be themselves and not lose themselves to their jobs, their marriage and their children. We willingly give so much of ourselves away that we frequently have little of the person that we truly are or wish to be left.

What is one thing you want to do or love to do that is just for you?

Puh-leeze!

If they were using the samples from 1999 for research, how and what difference would it make who they belonged to? How did the sports newspaper L'Equipage get the information? If it is a legitimate test and is indeed Lance Armstrong's sample, why isn't the cycling governing body doing something? Do the French know this looks like sour grapes?

I'd have to agree with Lance's statement that seven years of A & B samples that all tested negative is more than enough proof that he didn't dope...at least in the years he won. To his credit, he certainly seems to have alot of support from other cyclists and previous Tour winners.

While anything is possible...maybe we all have been fooled by Lance Armstrong, I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt.

So to the French all I can say is...Give it a rest already!