Flat tires, I shake my fist at you! Snow, I shake my fist at you even more!

February 5th, 2008

Hooray! It is already February 4th, which means I should only really hate everything for about four more weeks, and then just mildly hate everything for the two weeks following. Then, it’s smooth sailing aaaallllll the way til December 26th, 2008, when it all starts again. I can do six more weeks. I can do it!

Funny that I should bring up the weather, as it is making it very difficult to complete problem #21: Ride my bike to work 3 days a week.

Last week, I had 2 flats on the way in to work, which makes me very grumpy, and, see above (hate everything). I can deal with a flat on the way home ( I had one tonight), because I don’t get all stressed about being the jerk that comes in late to work everyday. I simply curse all that is good in the world and trudge home. At the very least, I am hoping I got the flats out of the way for a while, and won’t have another one for a month or two.

This “no flat tires for a while” theory is similar to my “make a fool of myself” theory: You know when you say something that is so incredibly embarrassing, or offensive to the person you’re telling it to, or you tell a joke that totally bombs, and you do it in front of a person or people you don’t really know? Well, as horribly painful as these moments are, I find comfort in them, because I know at least they are out of the way for the time being. It will be a good 4-6 months until I say another life-altering offensive thing, and I can go home and tuck myself into bed and think “It’s over. It’s over, for now, rest your little head and get some sleep. It’s over.”

So that’s my flat tire news. In the interest of being honest, I will tell you that I have 3 bike rides to make up. and 2 yoga classes. Stop judging me!

See!? how could I ride in this mess?

In other news, I once again completed Problem #43 with flying colors, I’m a superstar. I don’t know who I’m kidding, I should have just made this a cooking blog. But I didn’t, so you’ll just have to get through this one with me. I promise to have some better content for you once it warms up.

Here it is, some food I made this weekend, all from Veganomicon: Chickpea cutlets with mushroom gravy, Herb-scalloped potatos (which I burned just slightly), and roasted asparagus… mmmmm…..

followed by our old friends…. dun da da duhhhhn!:

S’mores cupcakes from Vegan Cupcakes take over the World. Deeeee-licious.

Stay tuned for tomorrow!: Some fun updates on problems that don’t involve cooking! New problems from you, the faithful readers of this blog, get added to the list! We’ll discuss thrilling adult-things like opening a savings account for the South America trip, and finally, I’ll come close to having a Britney Spears-esq breakdown over the weather!

Time for bed. Love, me.

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