Carpe Diem

What is life if you save it all for tomorrow? Will tomorrow ever come? No one will ever truly know until tomorrow greets us. I'm a big supporter of "Carpe Diem" (Sieze the Day!) A wonderful truth highlighted in the movie, "Dead Poets Society". With that in mind, I've been mulling something over in my head for quite a long time, and this past week, I finally took action on it. I got my learners permit for operating a motorcycle! I've known how to ride a motorcycle since I was in high school. Amy Thorton used to let me ride her cycle around the high school parking lot. It was safe for me because you could never pick up too much speed between speed bumps! Michael has always had a motorcycle... I think since he was four years old so when I met Mike in '88 I would ride with him... but now my girls like to ride with him and I'm usually the one who stays at home now...

So, why not get my license? I picked up the two DMV books last week and read them cover to cover. I still had about half of one of the books to go this morning but I decided that "Today was the day!" In order to get a permit to ride for the next year I needed to take a written test at DMV and then I can ride with Michael within a 1/4 mile of me for the next year racking up hours to qualify for my DMV roadtest. I stayed in my jammies until the final book was read and then motored to the DMV for my test.

I was surprised how unnerved I was! I haven't taken a "test" in years! Sounds really funny but I was really nervous about it! I actually didn't even tell Michael about it in fear that I would fail (If I did, I could simply take it again at a later date...sounded safe to me!) Turns out I got a 100% on it! YA HOO! I walked out of the DMV with my little slip of paper feeling like the whole WORLD was my oyster! I was now legally approved to drive a motorcycle on the open road! How fun! How cool!

No. I haven't taken my first ride as of yet sa Michael is in Boston until Wednesday. But! I'm hoping to take my first ride Thursday morning possibly... Michael and I are going to Mohonk for Thursday and Friday for our 15 year anniversary (www.Mohonk.com). He set us up in a tower room with a spa-tacular package so we'll be doing some hiking then off to the spa for massages and mineral pool moments... a decadent dinner followed by a cozy fire in our room... grrrrr.

Wait...this post was about my motorcycle permit... back to that... yes... my first ride...even if it doesn't happen on Thursday morning I'm sure it will be soon... and I look forward to it... I'm gonna learn how to ride on the open road... just to do it! Why? Because I've never done it before and it's one more thing that I want to put on my resume in heaven of things that I enjoyed down here on earth. Carpe Diem!