Two Trainings Cancelled

Today, I should be going to train about four hours from home tomorrow and Friday. Instead, I went with my daughter last night to her nursing position. She puts in long hours and works 4.5 hours from home for three days each week. Her 12- year-old home schooled daughter was going with her also.

We are going to a movie tonight and to pick up some groceries in a larger city down the road. It should be fun! My sister died on September 24, 2010, and my mother died on September 25, 2009. I was really hoping my training would keep me busy enough to not be sad all day.

It is okay to be sad, and to remember them both, however, a bit of a distraction can't hurt. In the meantime I am planning a presentation for Indigenous People's Day and Native American month.

Money loss

is a cross

to carry

It isn't hairy

though

you know

as I am retired

and I get tired

cause I'm old

and I uphold

the rule

to not fool

myself, that can

and will not ban

me from working

as I would be twerking

and jerking around

without good honest work

I know I don't charge enough

and I would never shirk

on the work I do, or expect stuff

for nothing but it is hard

to replace what I do

for what I make and I am a diehard

with too much time on my hands, so

work is what I do to keep me busy

sometimes the work makes me dizzy

but who can afford to lose all that money?

Not me, and probably not you, hey honey?

The other training cancelled was closer to me, but the program was asked to pack and move to another location now making it impossible for them to both do their job and attend a three day training, that was scheduled for this coming Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.

I thought of replacing the money by selling my motorcycle. It is a 2009, 1300 Yamaha V-star. A great bike that doesn't have that many miles for a bike that old. I had two deaths in the family in a short amount of time and then I got cancer, so that it wasn't ridden much in those early years.

Too much going on. But it has been ridden. Sometimes 60 miles for a trip to several hundred miles and across state lines. However, this year it was the 60 miles round trip to a local town just down the road.

My husband provides excellent maintenance, changing the oil, and whatever else in the Spring and Fall. So there are never any major problems with motor, transmission, or anything else.

My husband bought a Ryker due to being hit by a deer this year, and he would like me to ride it, when we ride together. If not he says, that he will sell his 2007 1900 Yamaha Stratoliner, and he would ride it. I know he doesn't want to sell his bike.

As long as I can put my leg over the bike to get on it, and hold it up, because it is heavy, and I must have a brain is what I tell everyone about my continuing to ride.

So far, so good! However, the sale of my bike would cover the loss of the training dollars. My family discount for the V-star is $2,500. I can sell it for $3,200-4,200. according to the local dealer. It was paid for by 2009.

Instead, my daughter says she will buy it and then when I sell it in the Spring, I can buy it back to sell it. Her and her husband are too aware of what could happen on bikes and they have two children left at home to raise, a house to build, places to go.

My daughter said, I'm too aware of head trauma from working as a nurse in assisted living programs. I said, Yes, you really have to love riding to do it and I have been riding since a teen.

My mother had me promise to take a break from riding to raise my two children. I was 24. I rode as a passenger some during that time. But as soon as my baby turned 21, I was back on a bike. My baby is 48 now, and I have no regrets and continue to love to ride!