it was a strange day.
went out for a ride at 7:30 a.m., but the wind was so bad it was blowing me around, making me think i had a flat tire and making me scared i would get blown over before i could unclip my foot and break my inevitable fall. so i called alan to come and pick me up. (: never had to do that before.
ran out to the store to buy big bag of those mixed nuts with the shells still on and one of those little silver crackiethings, a 500-piece jigsaw puzzle and a can of almond roca--because we always had these things on new years day at my house growing up. we have never had these things as part of our family's new years celebration. but for some surely-subconscious reason, this new years, we just had to have them.
made homemade pizza with the family early afternoonish. i was trying to make a fun memory, i think. the kids asked "why are we making pizza? we have never done that before? why don't we just order it?" so much for my attempts at being a fun, creative mom, the little grumps. (the truth is they were all exhausted from their new year's eve festivities and didn't have an ounce of energy to give to the pizza making process.) they finally did get into it, though, enough to make me feel like all the dough rolling, making homemade sauce and chopping of vegetables was not completely in vain.
not very usual, this day.
alan and tessa just got back from a drive. i asked him how it went and if tessa is losing her propensity to drift. he said yes.
i just looked down from the loft where i sit writing this. i can see the tiled bar, where lies the jigsaw puzzle, unopened, and the can of almond roca.
and i can see that the bowl for the discarded nut shells is getting full, which makes me strangely happy.
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Will you adopt me! I love Almond Roca! So much so that it leads me to my second question:
We live in similar terrain to your home (steeply uphill no matter which direction you go), so do you just have to build up the ability to ride that, or is there some magic technique that I'm missing? I'd love to go biking with J since the gym doesn't exactly fit my life, but somehow riding circles in the driveway isn't doing it for me.
hey julie,
where you been?! i miss reading your posts. i hope that all is well and you are still enjoying your nuts and almond roca!
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