Sumthing Difrent

I'm pretty sure my girlfriend and Number Won Fan is going to stop reading my blog if I don't put out (ha) at least a few non-bicycle related posts. Also, I realize my last post was both lengthy and thick, but hey, so is your mom.

Valentine's Day saw The Gal and I doing cutesty datey stuff for each other like having flowers and cookies delivered to her whilst at work and having a surprise and super yummy batch of banana strawberry cupcakes waiting for me when I got home. I have a sweet tooth and I've eaten a lot of pastries, but these were the best cupcakes I've ever had. I almost wanted Kasey to leave the room so that I could have some quality time alone with them.

After eating a few cupcakes we decided to walk to Comfort and get some good ol' home cooking and probably some booze. We always want Bloody Marys but end up getting something else by the time we order. It was a chilly walk that seemed to take forever and Kasey kept trying to sell me to bums and push me out into traffic. Luckily the price tag hidden in my hair says $.75 and it was apparently a slow day for panhandling.

We ordered a white wine with "French Kiss" in the long name and waited for the customary pre-meal bread that never came. They had us all packed into the front of the restaurant and the table next to us held a man with glasses on the very tip of his nose, a crew cut, and the inability to stop talking or close his lips when he chewed. I thought Kasey was gonna snap. I can handle open-mouthed eating, but he would not shut up while his mousy date just nodded and smiled. All he talked about was the military, George W., and war movies.

Luckily the food was tre bien and distracted me from my environs. I ordered way too much food, then topped it off with dessert. I believe on living on the edge. If I'm not rolling out of the restaurant like Violet in Willy Wonka then I haven't done my job. Fried okra, for the record, is fantastic. If I could get a kiddie pool full of fried ocra I wouldn't even have a couch, just a nest I'd eat while zoning out in front of the television.

We waddled home and promptly crashed out as all that consumption left my date incapacitated for extracurricular activities. I tell you, full bellies are the biggest cock block of them all. Maybe that's why models have so much sex... At any rate, it was a good day. I love Valentine's Day and New Year's, cuz you know people are smooching and probably doing it.

At the risk of veering too close to the subject of bicycles, I've been drinking protein shakes lately. From GNC, not that creepy guy down the alley that used to give them out for free if you closed you eyes. I have sampled both Artificial Chocolate and Artificial Cookies N Creme and both are enjoyable. As a vegetarian I'm concerned with my protein intake and after discovering that eggs, which I thought of as the holy grain of protein, would only cover about 10% of my daily requirement each I decided to look for other options. I don't even like yoke!

I'm wondering if my legs will start to grow faster now, and Aero suggested taking some pics and measurements of my legs now, then again in a month. I'm sure once I get the cajones to ask Kasey to take said pics you'll all be subjected to them somehow. By the way, if you are or know a thigh/calf/leg fetishist contact me, we can work something out.

Rilo Kiley is currently my favorite band. And Jenny Lewis is my greatest and only celebrity crush. She's the kind of person you'd believe anything about, from having a Ph.D. in chemistry to being an ex-madam. Like how Tom Waits is for me. They are just larger than life. Ifin' you want some good music to feed your ears I'd pick up "More Adventurous" and/or "Take Offs and Landings". I didn't so much like it at first, but "The Execution of All Things" is pretty damn awesome. The first four songs aren't spectacular, but all the ones after that are magic. Especially "A Better Son/Daughter", "With Arms Outstretched", and "My Slumbering Heart."

Okay, it's time for me to rest. Twenty mile an hour wind pushing squarely against Yours Truly up hill and along highway has made me tired. I'm gonna spend some time with the cat watching Law & Order with captions while Kasey plays Brain Age.

Have a good one, my friends.

- David