Tagged: pink
Meet Barbara
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The new lady in my life.
She's the replacement to my other bike, the love of my life, Vikki, who was the other half to Vance, Tyrone's bike. They matched and were his & hers and it was wonderful until I got hit by some woman in an SUV who pulled out of a back lane looking at traffic going the other way (she wanted to cross the street and turn) at the end of last summer.
It was horrible and I was heartbroken. I missed my bike.
Luckily yesterday I was able to snag my new girl for a paltry sum of $30 (!!!) which is cheap, cheap, cheap, kids.
I took her out for a nice, solid 16km ride this evening and I'm happy to report she rides like a dream.
It's going to be such a good summer, it's making me a bit emotional to think about.
Free Stuff Day in Winnipeg
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Which I promise you is exactly what it sounds like: people put out boxes of stuff on their front lawns and randoms come by and look through it and potentially take it home.
It's also as sketchy and as awesome as it sounds.
You can find all sorts of stuff including ancient relics from a bygone era:
If you Google "free stuff day" Australia comes up first which means they might also have a similar deal, but the next on the list is Winnipeg which I guess is cool.
Anyway.
We didn't find anything on our free time adventure which was fine I guess. I'm always wary of picking up discarded stuff from people's front lawns anyway. Even if I pay $1 for something I feel a bit better about it, like I made a legitimate transaction or something.
Either way it was a good excuse to get some Thom Bargen Americanos and croissants and walk around for a few hours.
We saw some weird shit as per usual for Wolsley.
We were going to go out tonight but decided not to. Port at home plus Mother's Day plus a 9am run plus painting Kat's apartment kept us in.
Honestly it's been our first weekend "in" in months which I'm loving right now.
Kat came over and we had some port and wine and snacks and I'm loving my oldschool Matt Good and this half-assed attempt at blogging.
It's all about the little things in life, I tell you. Never forget that.
Whacking balls around
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Sometimes the best fun you can have with yr friends is good, clean fun.
Hitting up the driving range, drinking weekday beers and tearin' it up at mini golf.
which turns out to be a lot harder than it looks.
We posed on fake, crooked bridges.
Saw some questionable-looking buildings.
(and didn't steal any of the Hot Wheels in the street unlike those who came before us)
Made some new friends
including Drunk Pig, Condescending Horse
and our best friend, the Ketamine Cowboy
who says "no more, I'm done".
And when I awoke, I was alone, this bird had flown
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Went for a run this morning in the drizzle which felt nice.Had to do some running around and got my feet wet which felt uncomfortable.
Came home and took my boots off and felt great again.
(Code for: I need new rubber boots)
One of the things I love about where I live is the view from my third-floor apartment. It's high up enough to be private but not so much that we're cut off from the outside world. In the summer the trees and vines make an amazing green canopy. I can't wait.
Here's what it looks like from my windows right now.
I wish you could smell how fresh everything is.
This song from The Beatles always reminds me of the rain, probably because of the Murakami novel with the title based on the song. I used to sit and read it in a bus shelter on my way home from my retail job years back.
It's still one of my favourite Beatles songs.
Enjoy the rest of your day!
Innocean and Hyundai's "Pipe Dream" commercial is getting a lot of hate
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The point of an ad is to get people talking and sharing, which is what's happening.
Why are we okay with ads that sexualize eating burgers and plays into racial stereotypes, but can't make light of suicide?
Why is that off bounds while other topics are free game?
I've love to hear your thoughts.
Beers and Disney
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Which sounds like an unlikely combination but it's what's happening right now.
After a day of writing exams and using my brain waters nonstop it feels good to sit around with a Hops and Robbers and relax. It's still kind of hard to type right now because my right hand is all cramped from writing, but I'm making do.
Wrote my Visual Rhetoric exam as well as my War as An Institution exam as well. One's a required course and one was an elective and I loved them both; one of the things I love about being a student is the wide variety of courses available to me. As much as I might complain about the stress about being a student at the University of Winnipeg, I know I'll miss it when I'm done.
For now, I'm enjoying the freedom.
Went out for beers and tasty snacks with Kevin, Adrian and Tyrone after work. One of my favourite things about the Internet is how it connects you to people, and Adrian and Kevin are two of my favourite Internet-friends (but don't tell Kevin that, haha)
We came home and I decided to watch some old Disney. Do any other 80's kids remember growing up with The Great Mouse Detective? How great is Vincent Price's song?!
(does anyone else notice how tiny his character's feet are?)
I don't think white people are allowed to say that
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There aren't enough facepalms in the universe for this.
Anime series that aren't as good as you remember
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Namely, all of them.
This post is brought to you by my bad decision to watch Trigun because it's on Netflix.
We can't make good choices all of the time.
Hip Hop Sunday #69 Kendrick Lamar - Growing Apart ft Jhene Aiko
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super chill Sunday after a busy couple of days
birthday dinners
drinks with friends
foot rallies
adventures
good times.
ran some errands today
splurged a bit at Fortune Cookie for lunch
went to IKEA and didn't spend a dime
(I know, right?)
ready to relax with coffee and a movie.
perfect Sunday if you ask me.
hope you're also enjoying
your hip hop sunday.
xox
