DAY 154: Since my last entry great things have been happening, I think it’s the MOST versatile blogger award, it makes things just fall at my feet in awe…in the last few days I’ve discovered a new invention, learned about a pretty fantastic new creature, and found a place where I can get books for free.
Sunday night was a great night here in Chicago – hot, only slightly humid – which might not sound great to some of you, but in Chicago in May, it’s about the best I can ask for. So after a long day of just lazying about with the boyfriend we decided to go steal my sister and her husband’s bikes to take a nice bike ride. We both said we are going to do this a lot this summer – time will tell if we do. On this night, we decided to ride over to the lake – now, I haven’t been on a bike in quite some time, especially a nice one, with gears and whatnot. About 5 blocks into our ride, I attempt to change gears and clunk, clunk – the chain falls off. It was all very sweet – us on a bike ride to the lake, my bf being sweet and getting off his bike to fix my chain. Me, being the independent woman I am, tell the bf I’ve got it and go to put the chain back on. He walks over and laughs, and says “Oh yeah, you’ve got it…look” and then proceeds to show me how there is this great hinge-type thing that pushes in and gives you slack on the chain which makes it infinitely easier to put it back on. I’m amazed and say “Wow, that’s pretty awesome, took them long enough to come up with that.” At which point my 6 years younger boyfriend says, with a smirk “It’s not new, it’s been on bikes since I was a kid…” Jerk! Optimistic spin: I can now put the chain back on without his help – thank you! And while he might have had this cool chain fixer thing on his bike when he was a kid – I had Garbage Pail Kids, Teddy Ruxpin, and got to ride my bike without a helmet when I was little (he probably did too, but for purposes of my “so there!” moment, let’s just pretend he didn’t).
After that the ride was really nice. We get to the lake and start our ride around the trail when I feel something – well a bunch of somethings hit me. I ask him, did we just ride through a swarm of bugs….yep! Awesome…then it happens again, and again, I couldn’t get away from these bugs – there are millions of them in a huge cloud that we ride through again and again. I duck hoping to dodge the swarm – nope, they still fly into my eye, up my nose, into my mouth…I try to be a trooper and keep riding, but eventually give up and ask him if we can get off the trail. As I’m picking a bug out of my eye and wiping my arms I ask him, what the hell are those things?! He, being the avid fly fisherman he is, tells me they are midges and apparently they make flies that resemble them to catch fish. Well fuck midges! I hate those little assholes. I mean they don’t bite (so he says), but damn they sure ruined my romantic ride around the lake! AND I just realized that my mom used to call me a little midge…was that her nice way of saying I was annoying and ruined her romantic ride around the lake? Optimistic spin: I found a midge on my bathroom floor shortly after and I killed it! Then drowned it in my toilet – that’s revenge!
These are midges at my nephew's baseball game - brutal little buggers!
So far, I’ve told you about the “new” invention I found, the “fantastic” new creature I learned about and now…the place where I get FREE books! Wait for it….wait for it…the library. I know! It’s great – you go there and they give you a card and you can take books…for free! I’ve been told other people already know about this and the child I once was knew about it too, but my adult self completely forgot. Until today when I needed to get a new book and well….had no money. So I walked over to this library place my boyfriend told me about, show them my Driver’s license and they give me this card and let me take 2 books home. I’m pretty stoked! Optimistic spin: If you didn’t realize yet…the books…were free!! No spin needed. And with that, I’m out – on a positive note for once…take that Tuesday that is really like Monday. I should have more Mondays that are really a Tuesday – it makes me more optimistic. Or maybe it was this invitation I got today through my hotmail???
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