April is the cruellest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.

- T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land, 1922.

ah, april was the cruellest month.

but, today is the last day and tomorrow is a beginning of something new, says i.

i have the bike i have craved. this is momentous! and better yet, some know of the call i received from the bike shop some weeks ago which had me in a semi-tizzy because i feared the reason behind it. but, when i stopped in later to put some more money down on my lay-lay-lay-away bicycle, no one mentioned any badness to me so i assumed that they had figured it all out and i had no need to worry.

alas! i paid off the bike today and they informed me that they had actually already sold the gray bike that i put money down for. i was startled for a minute but then they said that they were just going to give me the brand spankin' new 2007 model of the same bike which means it would come in a different (not boring gray) color. woo hoo! so this is my new bike:


and i like it much better. well, i'm off...i have a bike riding date so off i go...zooooooooommmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!!!!!!!

i have decided...
tomorrow (today, actually)
is
BIKE DAY!

i'm buying my bicyclette!
i will whoosh
and swoosh!

then, i will feel better.
i know it!

i'll rap about it later...

how did i celebrate my half-birthday revelation, you ask? oh, by getting into a car accident on my day off a few hours after that post. it's been a lovely week...

i knew there was a reason why i've putting up photos of cakes lately (or at least thinking about it)....today's my half birthday! wheeeeeeee!
this means i have 6 months until i turn...

for some reason, i don't work much this weekend. i feel weird when i don't work...i'll have what seems to be massive time on my hands. last weekend i was in chicago, so i thought i'd be working this weekend but it seems i'm not. i guess i'll just get caught up on things. go get some applications and do some cleaning, maybe wash my car, put down some mo' money on my bike which is inching closer and closer to being mine, and just try to organize my life physically and mentally. my roommates will be out of town as well so i'll also have the place to myself.

life's a weird little pony. i'm teetering lately for reasons i'd rather not get into now especially since i'm waiting for a certain talk with a certain someone about certain things which will absolutely help in giving me less random frantic thoughts and sleepless nights.

all can be well.

no one belongs here more than you.

tomorrow ends my 10-day work-a-thon!
after work i'm off to chicago to see a kid i love.
woo hoo!
the weather will be lovely.
this pleases me.

i predicted correctly. there were three people working yesterday including myself and we only need two closers each night so.... one guy wanted to close and the other one didn't know what he wanted...so that dude guy and i had to have a coin toss to decide who was staying and who was going. i won so i got to go home.

hooray!

so, what did i do with my time?

well, i got off around 8 and went home to change my clothes. and then met up with darcy and geoff at the deadwood. geoff was grieving his beloved corvette which had gotten totaled earlier in the day...apparently he had the car at his parents house and somehow the gas pedal got stuck while it was started in the driveway and the brakes wouldn't work and it went through the garage causing $20,000 worth of damage and totaling his car. i'm thinking he's lucky that we wasn't driving the car on the street or interstate or whatever when it happened or things could have turned out differently.

anyway, so i spent yesterday at deadwood and went home early. i had a shot of makers and 2 glasses of beer and was spent. it had been quite some time since i've had alcohol since i've been sick so i got tipsy fairly quickly.

and there's a new photo booth at the bar! d & i took pics.

don't ask what i'm doing in the one on the left. i have no idea. darcy thinks she looks too boobariffic in the photos. is that possible? la la la fa la.

i predict i will get off of work early today. what will i do with the wee bit of extra time? ooooh, the possibilities are endless...most likely buy wiper blades or new sunglasses since my old ones are broken. my life! exciting!

will my prediction come true?
i will know by 6. i predict that too.
la la la.

www.sick.com

that's an unexpected website.

anyway, as you may have guessed i'm a sickly kid. not too bad but i feel wacked out and it's amplified being in this cold basement room. i've been good and drinking orange juice and resting as much as i can. i work a bunch this week so i hope i can get better soon.

i cannot wait for the weather to become nice! it makes me quite happy just thinking about all the fun outdoory things i can do once mother nature cooperates. hooray!



now look at this adorable kitten...as a sandwich! oh gee! ain't that a hoot and a half? what will they think of next!

please kill me. meow.

it's moving day! i'll be back in iowa city! hooray!

not totally sure if timbo is 100% gone from the basement room but he's generally good about that stuff so we'll see. i think i'll wait until tomorrow anyway to officially move in. it's super rainy today and tomorrow looks like a better day to move my CR stuff in. i have to work tonight as well and tomorrow night but then i'll have three days off which sucks but i'll utilize those days to return the basement to its former glory (as in decorate, go through my old shit, and organize) and go get some job applications. i want another job in addition to my current one so hopefully i'll find something that's worth it. i guess there's open interviews tomorrow at a new bread store that's opening with an oddly high starting wage so i think i'll pop in there and get all interviewed up.

the forecast looks good for the weekend...a wee bit chilly but no rain so that's happiness. it'll be good for when scott comes to visit. hooray!

speaking of hoorays, i went to world of bikes in iowa city yesterday despite the downpouring rain to see if they had the bike i looked at at northtowne cycling in cedar rapids. wob is having a super sale right now and there's a gagillion employees on the floor wearing these horribly bright neon green shirts advertising the sale and with the florescent lighting in the store and the limited space it makes one almost need to pass out. but, for a change, an employee named ryan rode over and asked if needed help and i said that i wanted a bike that i tried in CR and he went off to try to find it. the computer said that it was in the store but he had to go through all the bikes on floor and in the basement to find it. i waited for a good ten minutes while ryan did his thing and then on the eleventh minute or so he started panicking and profusely apologizing to me. he made me feel like i was planning on hitting him which i wasn't, i swears. i had plenty of time before i had to be at work and it was crazy raining outside so i wasn't in any hurry. anyway, to make a long story shorter, ryanino found the bike...but it was in the sold bike section. boo! but ryanino found his manager and asked about it and the manager said that it was possibly a hold but if i wanted to buy it, then he'd let me have it. sure, i feel bad for the dude who put it on hold but it was the bike i wanted and on sale so fuck that. i put money down on it and happily they have a layaway thang there so i have 3 months to pay it off. so, that's cake. i'm sure i'll want to ride it once the weather is less crappy and cold so i figure i won't need 3 months but it's nice to have that option. hooray! bike for me!

i got the giant cypress in gray.



sure, it's a little boring to look at i suppose but once i put on the banana seat, handlebar streamers, and a white wicker basket on the front filled with fuzzy kittens that'll definitely jazz it up a little. i know it!

bike, bike, bike, bike! bike, bike, bike!