Drove an hour and a half through pouring rain and lightning early Tuesday to get my daughter to gymnastics camp in Perham, MN.  Went to where we thought it was being held, only to enounter a major road construction mess made worse by the rain… and people scurrying back to their cars.  Must be somewhere else.  Found our way to the right spot…  only to stand in line and discover my daughter didn’t seem to be registered.  Hmmm… getting frustrated.  Why wasn’t she on the list and why didn’t I know about the change in location?  After asking a few questions and searching my foggy brain, discovered that it was all on me.   I’d probably forgotten to register her.  Confirmed it when I returned home to find the registration form, fully filled out, but buried under a bunch of other papers.

Feel the same way about the Bike MS event this weekend.  Thought I had weeks, even months, to train and fundraise.  But after a couple of football and basketball camps, several out of town track meets for the kids and a high school reunion, the time has flown by and it’s here!  Time to raise money and time to pedal!

I am by nature a tardy person.  I’m always playing my own little game of beat the clock.  I can get this or that done right quick, before I have to do this and that.  I don’t intend to appear insensitive to others when I’m late, although I realize that’s often the end result.  I partially blame TV news, where we’re always trying to do things up to the last minute.

So pardon my last minute attempt to raise money for the MS Society this weekend.   A couple hundred riders are going at least 150 miles over two days, starting in north Fargo, looping through a good chunk of Cass county, and ending in north Fargo both days.  Money donated goes to help people with MS… a difficult disease that affects far too many people here in the upper midwest.

So if you’re so inclined, can you please help?  Just click on my donation page on the right…

Will take your donations, even up to the last minute

Robin