What a day. Got up - grabbed the toddler, tossed her in bed to nurse - while i showered and then retrived her and plunked her in the highchair while i got the coffee started... what a kick assingly possitive way to start off the day - with a happy, smirking, twinklin blonde cutie...
Her favorite breakfast? Hawthorne Valley Farm Maple Vanilla Yogurt and Purely O's and no she doesn't prefer them over Cheerios... I provide that preference.
Quality of life begins with quality of food. And quantity of booze! Okay - maybe not quantity but the comforting beer or two with food is great. That and like i've said before, i drink little other than coffee, water and beer/wine. I don't drink soda/pop/coke except on vary rare occasions. Once in a while i'll have some juice... prefering to get my fruit from the un-squished variety.
Quality of food is very important. The extent of the packaged food in our place is rather sparse, generally consisting of staples or basics, refried beans, pasta, heck i don't even buy Chili powder, prefering to blend the mix myself on demand... a bit of fresh garlic and onion instead of the powder, adding the paprika for color (and a bit of a smokey flavor with the stuff i've got now) some cumin and whatnot...
I put a poll together over at DC's forum... Jonny brought it up over at DC this morning (well at least i read it this morning) juts before slamming the hammer with some depressing news...
Hell i busted my bumper on some assbag turning infront of me and i was on the car... Maybe i've been in the city riding for long enough, but when i'm commuting... there is no such thing as a gap that i don't instinctively expect a car to come blasting out of... and even reading all that, i'm still feeling safer - more in control on the bike than in the car. Like i said a few days ago... The stories of cyclists gettin nailed are too common though. Really not good, but it goes along with the societal acceptance of 'so what' and indifference. I've seen some crazy crazy behavior here...
and what it really comes down to is:
patience... take a deep breath... recognize that slowing down, showing some courtesy will NOT delay your travels and will improve you GD Karma by leaps and bounds.
Looking for a parking space? get pissed if someone jacks it before you can pull in? Don't get all piss about it - there'll be a spot opening up soon ( assuming you are looking for a spot say at the Wholefoods in Providence - the big one)... don't jump out of the car and yell and scream... 9/10 the person jacking your spot didn't realize you were waiting for it... take a deep breath and move on...
zenish stuff... i dunno, i'm working really hard at it. changing the fundamentals of how i am on the road, in the car, on the bike... its hard to put my emotions in check but i find that when i do, when i say, let it go... that i can get over the incident better, faster than when i get worked up about it. I can still keep my intensity and focus and awareness, but i can stay positive and all that by letting stuff slide. Does getting mad, yelling, chasing, tailgaiting or yelling at a car/person do anyone any good? Will they (the idiot) do it again? Most definately. Will your anger and agravation do anything for you? or them? Nope. it might just make things worse.
Caffine may just be the big problem... i gotta check see if i wrote my theory down here...
Okay - well - just read the whole thing (what little there is of it) and nope - it isn't there...
and man - there's one mighty depressing post there in September... the wrap up on that is the house still hasn't sold, but my wife is working now... and i dunno, the house will sell... right? It has to...
oh and the Caffine thing.
It goes back to a comedian from seattle with a routine that goes along the lines of: If people drank a beer instead of a double latte before getting in the car they'd be mellow and relaxed and more polite... Amped up on caffine or mellowed by a beer... not drunk - not loaded - just mellowed... take the edge off... maybe that's the issue here in RI. Its the first place i have seen coffee milk served to elementary school kids - heck i hadn't ever heard of 'coffee milk' before that. maybe that's what it is... everyone here is ampped up on Dunkin Donuts coffee....
ah well more about that theory later...
I changed the colors... realizing now that they are a bit of a blogger basic combined with the Dutch colors... but what can i say... blue and orange are my two favorite colors... maybe i'll get the Welsh Dragon flying at some point... if its too obnoxious (the color) lemme know and i'll subdue it....
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Yeah, the coffee milk must be a Rhode Island thing... knowing that I'm a coffee freak, this girl from Rhode Island that was attending college in Indiana w/ me had her Mom ship a HUGE bottle of the stuff! I thought it was pretty cool, but you're only the second person I know bring up the subject.
It is crazy... I went to college 30 minutes from Rhode Island and in those 4 years i didn't even know about it...
and I'm a Pac NW native that found coffee just before starbucks started franchising and my addiction/freakness grew with them - and fortunately flew past them and their over-roasted coffees (its still better than Dunkin Donuts though).
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