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Riding Sidecar

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FOR MANY, MANY, MANY YEARS it’s always been a dream of mine to ride a motorcycle with sidecar. It’s actually on my bucket list. I don’t care which portion of the hybrid I partake in; driving or rolling in the side cart. Either / or.
I never see motorcyles with sidecars. Ever. I feel like the last time I saw one was in Germany last May, one day when I was walking down the streets of Weimar on a cloudy day listening to my iPod, I looked up and there one was! I got excited. The German man driving it came from an alley and was gone as soon as he appeared—true to the mysterious fashion of the motorcycle/sidecar.
So I went for a stroll through Moorhead the other day—zig zagging through streets surrounding campus. I had no destination and went where my feet took me. And what do you know? Would you guess that I saw not one but TWO motorcycle/sidecars on the SAME block!?!

If there’s anything I aspire to own some day, it’s one of these. I’ll paint it red, and my husband and/or dog can sit in the cart. We’ll wear pilot caps and goggles.
I see this scene every waking dream.

Fall Colors

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The new Fall 2010 color guide for women from Pantone. Pantone is a worldwide color authority that spans several different industries, including fashion and interior design. Curious that they’re short of a burnt orange/deep brown. In any case I’m enjoying them, being inspired by them, and wearing them out…
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In 2006, my freshman year of college, my mom sent me a clipping with this message:

Five Simple Rules for Happiness

1. Free your heart from hatred
2. Free your mind from worries
3. Live simply
4. Give more
5. Expect less
I am still working toward each one of these—in particular, numbers 2-4. But rules like these never go out of style.

~NeW ArRiVaL!!*~

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New gadgets are always fun, and for the first time since 2006 I’ve got a fresh laptop—MacBook Pro-who-is-not-yet-named (His/Her performance will determine its name).
Opening up an Apple product is a ready-made celebration—and MacBook Pro was no exception. By this point I was about to turn back and repackage it out of guilt, then went with my better judgement: To rip it open like a 6-year old on Christmas morning.
Schroeder, my old, trusty, faithful and indubitably hardworking companion all through my college years, will soon find a new home. He’s been going downhill for a while now and is having a hard time kicking the Adobe programs I need him to run the most. Poor guy has been crying in the corner of my bedroom since Friday. I feel terrible. What’s more is, I’ve never had such horrible buyer’s remorse. But it’s a lovely investment.
With that, a warm welcome to the newest member of my technologic family!

Welcome to the Hood

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SO LAST NIGHT I’M SITTING IN MY CAR, parked in my driveway behind my apartment/garage/house thing (I’m not even sure what I’m living in). It was 12:30 a.m. and there was a party in full swing at the house next door. As I’m talking on the phone, a gaggle of freshie girls (I know they’re fresh by their attire and/or hair crimpings) storms outside for a smoke break/gossip session (“No, Austin likes you.” “And then I got this text from him that was like, like, like…”) and started getting dangerously close to my car. The best part was, they didn’t know I was sitting in the car. Also, they were apparently too drunk to notice (!)

Anyhow, the weren’t doing anything seriously wrong other than being A) Loud and 2) RIDICULOUSLY DRAMATIC! So I rolled with it. I mean, I was a Freshman ONCE and I know the debauchery that it entails. But I could sense that something not cool was going to happen, and so kept an eye on the babes and their bitch-asses.

Things were cool until one of the freshie girls, Blondie McBladder, strolled over to MY LAWN (as in, the lawn of my apartment/garage/house thing where I’m currently living and paying rent toward the upkeep of the grasses that surround said living quarters), YANKED DOWN HER SHORTS (two inches of cloth? Can you call them shorts? Judges?) SQUATTED and began to URINATE ON MY LAWN. MY lawn!

My instinct was, of course, to protect my lawn. So I stopped my phone conversation mid-sentence, threw open the car door and…

ME: (to peeing drunk girl) ARE YOU SERIOUSLY DOING THAT RIGHT NOW?!???!
DRUNK GIRL PEEING ON MY LAWN: What! I didn’t know you were in the car!
ME: SERIOUSLY??!
DGPOML: Where’m I supposed to do it?
ME: ON YOUR OWN LAWN!!!! (Points next door to party house)

(DGPOML quickly pulls up “shorts,” and before I could add, “…OR IN A TOILET!!!” she flies away with her gaggle of friends, never to return…yet.)

Three cheers for being assertive. Also, a shout out to my mother for raising me right…

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I just heard three resonances from different areas of the room and they feel the same all around. It’s like wildfire; wrapping up school, growing mature. If not now, when?

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I walked past a couple passionately making out in the middle of the sidewalk, it was supremely awkward, but in reality I have no idea.

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Feeling better today, sugar?