Ouch!

So I got into my first bike accident today. I was trying to ride down the big hill from my place down to the park my husband and I have been frequenting ever since I've learned to ride a bike. There's this pretty decent sized bike path that's about 8 miles long! ^.^ Anyways, as I was riding down the hill, I crashed into a pole, and I kind of flew from my bike onto the cement. :( I scraped up my left hand and elbow pretty badly and also, I can barely use my arms. I think I may have hit a nerve in my elbows, mainly on my right side, because I really can't lift up my arm up to my mouth. It made eating dinner a little difficult. :P It's even a bit hard for me to type right now. :(  I forgot how badly it can hurt to get injured like this. I haven't experienced this sort of pain since I was a kid! It makes me remember when I first fell off my scooter. I hit my elbow so bad that my arm was super swollen for days. >.< Hopefully this time around it won't be that bad.

I can't wait to heal up. I'm kind of disappointed we weren't able to ride our bikes today like we planned. :( I also hope that my scrapes don't scar. D: I think that's actually my biggest concern over anything, oddly enough. Looks like neosporin is going to be my best friend for awhile... -_- Anyways, time to give my arms a break...er.... rest. It would be good for me to try to speed up my healing process as quickly as possible, for my sake, and for my poor hubby. He's been feeling pretty bad about the whole incident and has been really attentive to me because he feels that somehow this was all inadvertently his fault, even though I've told him it isn't at all. :( Still, in a way I feel lucky that he cares about my well-being so much! He really is such a sweetheart! <3 If anything, that makes me feel loads better already! ^_^

My Decal Came In!!!

My bike is even cuter now! x3 ........That is all. 

I Finally Have a Bike of My Own!

It's not the hot pink Hello Kitty one I originally wanted, but I actually like this one a lot better. It's a Schwinn bike, and it's a much prettier shade of pink in my opinion. ^.^ I also love how it has a sort of retro look to it! x3

I absolutely love it! It's perfect for me! This was the kind of bike I originally had in mind when I was shopping for one. I'm so glad I was able to find it. ^_^  Also, to get my little Hello Kitty fix, I ordered a metal Hello Kitty decal from amazon.com to stick on it! :3 It's actually a decal for cars, but I figured if it could work on a car, it should be able to work on a bike, right? 

Picture taken from here

It's As Easy As Riding a Bicycle!

This may seem to be a bit unbelievable, especially for a 21 year old,  but I have never ever learned to ride a bike. I've tried to learn once when I was around 9 or 10, but never tried to since from being scarred by that one experience. What happened was, my brother tried to teach me by riding down the huge hill by our house, and I was doing pretty well until I turned around and saw he wasn't holding me. Instead of having that "wow!" moment after discovering I was riding the bike on my own, I landed up freaking out and panicking, which then lead to me crashing and then tumbling down the hill and scraping myself up pretty badly. -_-; I pretty much made up my mind right then and there that I would NEVER get near a bike again in my lifetime....

However, today, I had broken that promise I had made to myself. My hubby pretty much pushed me to learn to ride a bike today, so we walked all the way down hill, rented a bike, walked with it to the park, and then began the training. xD Thankfully, I'm not afraid of embarrassing myself (I pretty much do embarrassing things all the time, anyways), because there were quite a few people there, and I'm pretty sure some of them figured out that I didn't know a thing about riding a bike. There were a few people who were sitting on the bench near us for quite some time during my bike lesson and would glance over at us occasionally, but that's about all.


 It was a bit frightening for me when I first got on the bike, especially not having a helmet or knee pads (don't follow my example please!). Because of that, we thought it might be less scary for me if I started out on the grass and then move on to the pavement once I felt more comfortable ( I soon figured out that it's a lot more difficult to pedal through the grass than on the sidewalk). Luckily, I didn't fall once (the only injury I sustained was a blister on the inside of my thumb from gripping the handles too tightly). I mainly had trouble with balancing and riding in a straight line (I was riding like a drunk person and swerving all over the place in the beginning), but within a couple of hours, I started to get the hang of it! ^.^ Now, the only thing I can't do very well is making big turns. xD For the most part though, I've got it down. I seriously didn't think I would even make as much progress as I did! :3 I guess my hubby's a good teacher. Lols! It also probably helps a bit that the bike was a good size for me, unlike when I was a kid trying to learn on a bike that was too big for me. :P I also never realized how fun it could be riding a bike. I liked it so much that I'm looking for a bike of my own now! (I've got my eye on a hot pink Hello Kitty one at the moment!).

I feel like I achieved a lot today.^_^ It may seem like a small feat to some, but for me, it was a huge step to take. Honestly, I'm really proud of myself, and I'm thankful to my husband for dragging me out there even though I was reluctant and being stubborn almost the entire time he was trying to teach me. ^^; I guess it's a good thing for me that he's even more stubborn than I am, otherwise, I probably would have never learned. xD

Also, I can now sing this song whenever I go for a bike ride: