thanks for all the tips guys!
I'm kind of fighting myself back & forth about whether I should try to sell my bike & buy a different one or take the extra money I would have to spend to buy the new bike & use it toward upgrading what I have... There arent a lot of upgrades that I want but a CF fork would be nice, compact double (I have a triple & I have never used my granny) as well as different bars & stem are on my list.
Just changing to a double will cost me in the neighborhood of $150 assuming equal level components to what I have & the fork will be another 100-150. Another 50-75 on bars & stem. Just there, I've spent almost $400 and thats almost the difference between the new bikes that I've looked at & what I can sell mine for.