the last time i owned a bike, i lived in indianapolis. i lived with two friends. we all owned bikes. then someone broke into our sunroom and stole our bikes. it was a real bummer. we had to call the police. they sent an officer to our house to check it out and file a report. he had a funny name but i can't remember what it was. maybe officer christmas. i can't remember.
this is the most stereotypical/most awesome motivational poster. i feel like going for it every time i look at this picture. i don't even care what "it" is. "it" could be my dinner, "it" could be watching tv, "it" could even be skiing right off of a huge cliff. i don't care. i'm going for it.
this is by far the nerdiest. only the the nerdiest of the nerds would ever fall for this poster. the "go for it" poster is cool because it tricks the wild kids into thinking they should "go for" other things. this one just appeals to nerds. and only encourages them to continue to be nerds.
this one is just so weird. like "give it your best! why? ... because ... um ... usa?"
doesn't it look like i don't have a right foot in this picture? i didn't photoshop that. i was just wearing black socks. OPTICAL ILLUSION!
just the other day, i was driving home from work, listening to the radio station that plays only christmas music for the month of december, trying to get into the x-mas spirit. i could tell i was forcing it. it bummed me out a little. typically, i'm super siked for christmas. but i'm not going home for christmas this year. so it's basically just going to be a day off from work. which happens once or twice a week anyway.
one of several strange things about living in southern california is: seldom rainfall. it's nice in some ways because if you're planning on walking somewhere, you never have to worry about your suede shoes getting wet. but it's also annoying in some ways because my car never gets clean.
my friend axel is from germany. when he was a kid, he was visiting holland with his dad. his dad, as a joke, told him you could tell dutch people from germans because the dutch all have noses right in the middle of their faces. axel, being a kid (kids are stupid), believed him. he started noticing that dutch people really all had noses RIGHT in the middle of their faces while the non-dutch had noses ... i don't know ...elsewhere.
my niece sent me this drawing. this thanksgiving drawing. it's a bunch of people standing around, smiling, with their arms outstretched (that's how we do thanksgiving in my family). somewhere in the group, a head was drawn and then crossed out, then kind of erased. now, some people might assume she started to draw another person, and then decided she was tired of drawing people. or maybe she thought, "nah, fourteen people is a good number." but no. Ally is smarter than that. she knew exactly what she was doing. the slightly erased head clearly represents my absence at this year's thanksgiving feast. she just drew everyone smiling and having fun without me to show that they don't need me to have a good time. even the sun is laughing it up. and then she had my brother mail it to me just so i'd feel like a dick.
