i'm back! and departing again swiftly tomorrow for lancaster to see BWNK!'s fam and camp with friends, so before i leave, let me tell you what i did while i was gone:

BWNK! and i got back to brooklyn about 3:15 this afternoon after an 8 hour and 45 minute drive from Acadia National Forest!
it all started last Sunday when we left Brooklyn with our ( Read more... )

bike news: my poor calves! so in case yall hadn't heard i'm trying to be all good at biking and shizzzz so maybe i can tour a bit this summer.
options include a leg of a cross country with some friends or touring the mountains with my folks,
SO a while back BWNK! and i decided we'd attempt a ride from philly to lancaster when we visited his family ( Read more... )

they'd have to ask you to do your own stunts cause nobody, nobody, nobody could pull off the same shit as you and turn out alright.


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i just found out the route i take to work everyday, well except when i have morning meetings with customers, so let's say 4 days a week is  a little less than 8 miles long. i ride that twice a day. four days a week and assorted other weekend and friend rides. i easily ride over 60 miles a week. just typing that makes me feel ( Read more... )

Hello all my friends out there in LJ world. I have a favor to ask you. I'm hoping to accomplish a neato little dyi project this week in the city, but! I don't have a sewing machine. oh, quelle horreur! you say on this, the day of bastille. how can i aid my dearest comrade? well, if you have a sewing machine, you can comment on this very entry to ( Read more... )

so yesterday  sometime between coming home from work and 8:30 when i was leaving the house for the elf power show, someone  stole the front tire to my new (to me) really nice bike.

yeah where-ever you are FUCK YOU!!!!!!

that was the only graduation present i received and i was SO happy about it.
obviously i can't afford an equally nice replacement ( Read more... )

so yesterday I fixed a flat on my bike myself for the first time.
part of me wants to be all like wooot! yeah! but it was so easy. seriously easy. even intuitive.
so that made me think, why didn't i just try to fix it myself the first time i got a flat?
i think it's has to do with the mystification of manly things as a woman.

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what i'm doing right now. you may not. you probably are not, but! nonetheless

I"M LISTENING TO MY BRAND SPANKING NEWW GORGEOUS RECORD PLAYER!!!!
and it is awesome. the first song rachel and i put on was rod n' reel by the besties and we sat and jumped around the kitchen and it was glorious! i can't explain how happy i am today. it's gorgeous out and ( Read more... )