Entry 7--AKA: "I love this time of year."

Yes, I should be doing homework but I'm not and though I don't have a good excuse I will say that the weather this weekend is distracting in its beauty. I wish the weather stayed like this year-round. It's warm, but not hot; it's cool but not cold; it's sunny but not cooked; it's days like this I want to go to the lake and chill out on the shore.

Yesterday my friend Shawna came over to my house with her bike and we rode our bikes around my neighborhood for an hour and a half. It was such a blast. We figured it would be pretty warm so we got our start around 11 am. First, we went around my neighborhood, sticking to side streets and a park near my house. It was awesome! In the first ten minutes the chain came off of my bike and I popped it back on but it was in front of house where there was this contractor guy working on the house. He came out to the street and commented that my chain was too loose and needed to be tightened. I agreed and commented that I would have to take it to a bike shop since my boyfriend had already tried to fix it. He offered to fix it for me and within 30 seconds had my bike upside down with wrenches in hand. He totally fixed it--free!--and my chain didn't come off once for the rest of the time! We headed to the park and rode around the park then through the neighborhood around the park. We got chased by a dog, a huge, wolf-like creature, that had a voice like a vicious chihuahua and towered over my ankle. It was hilarious! We came back to my house after about 40 minutes, to get water at a radio to strap onto the handle-bars of Shawna's bike. Jason offered to burn us a Dr. Dre cd but since it was just a radio, no cd player, we had to say "no." So instead we bumped some old school jams in the vein of "adult contemporary" and were "hella cool." Actually, I was "hella cool" and Shawna was "beyond cool."

On the second leg of our journey we went to this other part of the neighborhood I had never been to before. We ended up on Garfield, near the park we were at earlier, and decided to head back to the park. From the park there is this trail that goes under this bridge where there's tons of graffiti and from there you can get to the other side of the Garfield. From there is another trail that follows a creek and there was a family walking along looking at the scenery. On the other side of the creek there were also some homies with garbage bags and clippers "trimming some foliage" which is awful suspicious, partly because why would anyone want to "trim foliage" but more so because why would 20-something homies want to to "trim foliage?" Uhm, yeah, growing some plants on public property, anyone?

So we headed back to the house and called it a day. We're going to go every other weekend or so during the summer which I think is awesome. I love riding my bike, especially now since it works and the chain doesn't come off it!

What else? Jason and I are going to do our part to "stimulate the economy" by purchasing a new bed with our stimulus checks. I don't want to spend the money but I think I've been having so many headaches lately because I don't sleep well at night. Our bed is all sunken and old, Jason has had it for almost 10 years, plus it will be nice to have a bigger bed. We're going to buy a queen size, pillow-top Sealy Posturepedic. We can get a really good deal at Sleep Train, somewhere in the area of $1100, which is perfect since each of us should be getting $600.

I will be finding out about my financial aid package this week and I am seriously nervous and excited. I'll let you know how that pans out.
My brother is getting married this weekend, May 3, so I'm booked all day Saturday.
Only 24 days until school is out.
31 days until my birthday.

So, look out summer, here I come.