alternative can only last so long

i can now definitively say that napoleon dynamite has officially ceased to be cool, as evidenced by this resolution in the idaho legislature.

things i am thankful for today

. clean laundry
. walking to subway in my short sleeves on a sunny day
. being able to afford lunch at subway
. receiving my tax return via direct deposit
. having a cassette player in my new car
. having my roommate back after housesitting for a month
. finding my lost cellphone
. talking to my daughter
. my boss treating me to a cranberry/grapefruit sobe
. that i only work part-time and can leave in 30 minutes

well, it beats whining about everything.

a public admission of stupidity

after accepting a proposal from an old friend to help redesign a christian dating site, i researched it a bit and was cleverly sucked into the bait and tease. i tried it. it was pretty lame. and it's a really good way to feel unacceptable and desperate. so i've bailed out on the whole thing, and i posted this on my profile at 'loveandseek.com':

(where is the best place to go on a date?)
you'll probably never get to find out.

(what are you looking for in a partner?)
someone who isn't part of the fickle online-dating-site madness.

(i'd just like to add...)
...that dating sites are dumb. well, i've never tried any others, but based on my experience on this one, i can make a sweeping generalization about them all. i freely admit that i was just another lonely duck and i feel stupid for giving in to the temptation. at least it's just a $10 mistake. i wish good luck to all the other suckers who might be able to read this before it gets yanked.

and indeed it was yanked (twice). fancy that! so i'm kind of embarrassed about the whole thing. ok, really embarrassed. but if i can say it publicly then it's behind me. onward and upward i say.

oh, and they didn't like my designs either because the boss thinks he's a designer. and he's colorblind.

feeling flaky

so this morning, i was running a half-hour late (as opposed to a half-hour early) due to my alarm clock which had apparently not been sprung forward. and i sold my car yesterday. oh, and there's an inch of fresh snow, with more coming down.

so of course, it's the perfect day to ride my bike to work.

and i will begin and end my justification of this supposed stupidity by saying that this is exactly what i needed. furthermore, i don't even have a car lined up, and i feel no compulsion to buy something right away.

why? because i have been feeling grotesquely lethargic and fairly bulbous of late, and this is a good way to get me off my butt. so here's hoping that my butt gets less sat upon, and i feel more and more human, and that i don't hurt myself in the process.