Rack and Fenders

I got some, and I love them!












Also: saw 5 bats on the ride home, it was great!

McHungry

When you have a room full of laundry (for a couple of months) that need to be folded... you can't just fold it.  You need something to do.
Put on a movie I say!  Put on a movie that you have seen before and can know what is basically going on visually so you can fold and organize without much interuption.  In other words: put on a movie that you can more or less listen to.

Tonight I did that. I put the movie "Super Size Me" on hoping for 2 things: 
1. I would be entertained.
2. I would not want fast food for a long time.


Keep in mind this is not the first time I have seen this movie, it's the 2nd.  So what happened the 1st time?  All I could do was just sit and suffer through the movie until I could drive (not walk, ride, run, or exercise in any way) to the nearest open McDonald's*.  All I wanted for the 1 hour 40 minute movie was a damn Big Mac.  Damn. 


Guess what happened the 2nd time?  The same.  Only this time I didn't go get a Big Mac like last time.  I had some lame ass string cheese.  And now I am still craving the Mac and don't feel that well, stupid lactose intolerance.  


The weather is going to be crappy the rest of the week- this means I am still only at like 4 cycle commutes to work.  Last week it was either snowing, raining or I had some things (please see cake blog) to take care of so that I could not ride to work.  The point? Now I'm going to eat crap food, maybe just once and eat good again, and have to drive to work.  Is it weird that I ask for nice weather on work days and bad weather on weekends?  How about good all the time?  But no droughts. 

* The spell check want's to change McDonald's to McDonnell's which reminds me of this awesomeness.  But JSYK that was McDowell's .... I don't even need to look that up.

Today I learned:

Plus

Equals

Hey all you Cold Hearted Snakes:

      

Samatha said it....

Seriously. They are like $0.79 more a can.  

It's not that I am a great fan of the Pea.  Typing this I am realizing those cans are marked "Sweat" Peas, (which I have never noticed before) makes me wonder if I may be a fan of these peas....
Back to the point:
It's not that I am a great fan of the Pea.  But these Peas were featured on SATC (Season 4: Episode 1 "The Agony And the Ex-stasy" ) Anywho... Every time I am looking at the canned vegetables I wonder, "HEY! THOSE ARE SAMANTHA'S PEAS!.... That isn't much more money....  I should try those.... But really? .... I mean it is more money... They can't be that much better... THOSE ARE SAMANTHA'S DIRTY PEAS.... etc. etc. etc."
I still have never had the fancy (Samantha) Peas.  I wonder if I ever will.


P.S. These are the things you (I) think of when I (you) start a blog. "Hey! Those are Samantha's Peas! I should take a picture and blog about this.... since I have nothing else to blog about......................................................................................................................................................"

When throwing a surprise party....

You may need to go to your Mother's house
to bake a cake on your lunch hour.

Please be aware: 

• You may not be able to find eggs.  Thus you will have to get back in your car and haul Cooper to the store.  
• You may have to hunt down the hand mixer.  It will be from 1897.
• You will have to mix with a silicone whisk, because obviously the beaters would not be in the box of the mixer circa 1934.
• This will suck.  The whisk will not be strong enough to break the yolk, but don't worry, just keep stirring, eventually it will all not mix.
• When your Mother does call you back, she will tell you 3 places that the beaters would be, having looked in all those places, you will find them under a stack of hand towels and oven mitts.
• Make sure the mixer is turned off. If you don't you will jump, the sound of the mixer mixing the stove top is scary.  *whomever used it in 1400 forgot this and just unplugged it*
• You get to watch TV while the cake bakes! *and play angry birds*
• You may have to move about 6,000 items around in a freezer to find a place to place said cake.
• You have to go back to work.

This will drain your battery.

Poutn' Pooch

Sometimes, you are mad. 
Sometimes you are mad at Mom.
Sometimes, you're just tired and Mom told you you cant sit on the chair.

This is not a meal...

But sometimes, when you are pushing thirty [spelling it out is less damaging to the heart/soul/mind] it makes for a good snack while you throw together some shells and cheese with tuna.




Thirty.


Crap.

Reason #239382

The kid next door.


He is 12-14 years old.


He likes to throw sharp things, into my yard. 


I have found at least 3 different types of weapons hidden in my yard, not so much hidden as thrown at the fence (which is 20 years old and falling apart, so any moment now it will fall down) and either to high or just fit between the slats.  


Good thing that Ike dog wasn't out side... any of those times.


Today I heard some banging, so I went out side to see what he was destroying THIS time.  Just using the other half of the garden trimmers (a small blade at 2" compared to the other knives with 4"- 6"blades) that I found this winter behind the air conditioning unit.  Just throwing it at the fence, from 3 feet away.  By the time I got out there only 2 of the fence posts had been knocked out.  


Yes, I will continue tell him to not destroy the fence.  Yes I will continue to throw everything I find away.  Yes, I will make his mother pay to replace that part of the fence. 


Little F***er. (Sorry Mom)

Take A Gander

Tender Tushie

So- lets start with last week.  Last week I purchased this bad boy: 

(Or girl? We don't quite know yet, but I am sure a name will come soon.)

Then the morning came, and with it my first bicycle-commute to work, then my commute home, then the next morning and the same thing there and back... What did I learn?

  1. I need a bike app for the iphoney that does not suck.

  2. There are some idiots on the Green Belt *I am probably one of them*

  3. Cool real-life-bicycle-commuters wave with the hand that is on the inside of the path, just like those cool motorcycle dudes.

  4. Mat Kearney, Ingrid Michaelson, Dixie Chicks, DeVotchka, Keane, and The Court Yard Hounds are great for this ride!

  5. I am out of shape.

Somewhere in there I went down-town for a lunch.

So that is somewhere around 26-28 miles in 2 days. Boom.

And now we are to Saturday- which I took off from riding because why? I have no idea, I should have cycled but I didn't.

Sunday: Bikes with Buds! Drove to LayneStreet and jumped back on the Wilshire. There were flat tires, there were 2 bike stores, there were long-boards, margaritas, and treat-snacks, and one more commute home (+6 more miles)

I figure its over 37 miles in 3 days.  The saddle is comfortable, I feel great and can't wait for the next ride, and I am pretty sure the Garden-City-Bicycle-Police-Man recognized me- and thinks I'm cool (two waves on two bikes at the same time on the same side.)

This is Layne.

This is Layne. This blog is her fault- therefor I dedicate this first bit to her.