delight in life

public service announcement.

If you sign up for a free 30-day trial that requires your credit card number up front, MAKE A NOTE of what day you signed up. Especially if you don't actually want the service past the trial.

If you are dumb like me and get charged lots of money because you didn't pay attention, it never hurts to ask nicely for your money back even if their policy is VERY VERY CLEAR on their website where it says "After the 30-day trial period, absolutely no refunds will be given." Sometimes nice people named Randall give your money back anyway.

But really, you should just make a note the first time around.

here's to molly.

Riding a bike into 60 mph gusts of wind: not so fun.
Riding a bike perpendicular to 60 mph gusts: also not fun, but with infinitely funnier results than the first.

In the last 48 hours, I fell down 3 times. Yes, three. Not just little stumbles, but butt on the ground, eating cement. Yesterday morning, while running to catch my bus, I tripped and could not catch my balance, due to the large bag of books and computer hanging on my shoulder. The bag fell .05 seconds before I did. We both landed in the middle-ish of the road, but I was a little closer to the curb due to the fact that I SKIDDED ACROSS ON MY STOMACH AND ELBOW. Yeah. That was fun.

Two hours later, I tripped going up the stairs, dropped everything I was holding, and landed on my elbow. Same elbow as before, of course.

Today's act of ultimate gracefulness was much less painful and much much funnier than the first two. Like I said, I was riding my bike. In heavy heavy wind. (Literally, we're having 60 mph gusts here. Crazy.) Word of advice: sideways to the wind? Not a good plan! Down I went. Lots of people around, too.

Now I am bruised and scraped all over. I feel like I'm seven again.

Here's to friends who don't laugh when you cry. And even more, here's to friends who don't laugh when you careen out of control, arms windmilling frantically, across the street, only to fall on your face and start crying in the middle of the road. And here's to balance. I wish I had some.

huh. i never thought of that.

WEATHER WATCH 2008

I'm not watching tv right now, but I bet that's the headline on all the news channels. Lots of reporting on how to stay warm and how to drive on ice. (Step 1: don't.)

We've got some inclement weather headed our way and I'm banking on a snow day tomorrow. Overnight precipitation and icy acumulation by morning is expected.

My Snow Day 08 plans:

• do some scrapbooking
• do some homework
• take a nap
• eat something

Big day. I am looking forward to it.

I am very afraid I am counting my chickens too soon and the weather.com gods are going to spite me by having it stay perfectly clear and ice-less all weekend.

computers hate me today.

            

saying goodbye

Today I am saying goodbye to my favorite pair of jeans. They've been circling the drain for a while now, but I was ignoring the destroyed hems, the fact that the zipper constantly falls halfway down, and the small hole in the knee, simply because I love these jeans. But today the small hole turned into a gaping abyss, and I think it is time to put an end to the idea that I can still wear these jeans in public and not be mistaken for a homeless person.

In other news, this sweater, the one I have been drooling over since I saw it in Gap's holiday ads in November, went on sale. And it is available in my size. Which never happens. When great sweaters go on sale, they are in XXXXS and XXXXL. Or 00 and 54. Never the nice middle sizes. But lo! The sweater was on sale and in my size. It's a sign, right?

Obviously.

So I put the sweater in my cart and hit checkout. I sign in. I hit checkout again. The sweater disappears from my cart. Oops. Try again. Sweater disappears again. One more time. Click checkout, sweater disappears. So I took the hint and gave up. I guess The Guy in Charge of Omens and Signs is in a bit of a mischievous mood tonight.

and what have we here?

What we have is a very blurry cell phone picture of a genuine, honest-to-goodness, bonafide snowflake!

This little guy and four of his friends fell on me yesterday, causing Alisha to first jump around with glee and second lament that it was Friday so the snow would be wasted on the weekend. (If you don't get out of school, what good is a snow day anyway?)

Alas, it turns five snowflakes is not enough to cancel school. Or anything. Although this is Texas, so he wouldn't have needed to bring along too many more friends to get the job done.

don't deny it.

This morning I missed my bus and consequently was 15 minutes late to class and I spent an absurd amount of time waiting in the very cold for the next bus. In an unrelated matter, I was an hour late to work. All sounds bad, right? Normally, yes. But today, not even the ridiculous bus schedule could bother me because I wore this shirt:

from my sister Cara, via threadless.com.

Clearly, I am one classy lady.

it's chris's birthday!

Happy birthday, love. :)

happy.

School is so much better when there's no school.

This weekend has been so much fun. I got a huge to-do list checked off and cleaned my apartment AND I still had time to play. And go to the gym.

I went to the gym yesterday. and today. and not just for yoga. and the earth is still spinning. amazing. I might have to try it more often. I hate to admit it but I almost had fun. Almost.

I have to say, this weekend mainly rocked because of the quality time I spent with my charming roommate. Although we love each other, we both have boyfriends and different circles of friends, so we almost never do stuff together, save for watching trashy tv on Saturday afternoon and the occasional Starbucks date. But Friday night we had dinner in and a movie out. (ps. go see Juno!) Saturday we chilled with friends. Today she taught me to use the rowing machine. That is the stuff deep friendships are made of. Vegetarian chili and rowing machines.

The only not-good things about this weekend are that classes starts tomorrow and Chris is not here. Chris, I love driving your car around but I like it more when you're here to drive me around in it. :)