Hello! Long time no post...

Fall is here! Yay! It's time for my favorite kinds of clothes. I just love getting all bundled up with scarves, gloves and cozy boots! Coats are really my number one favorite thing about Fall and Winter, especially wearing fun little dresses underneath! I have a new favorite website for buying everything adorable. Modcloth.com is full of wonderful surprises! They have the most precious clothes and accessories.

Fall in interesting here in New Orleans, The weather doesn't seem to know what it wants to do, and of course there's a tropical storm here or there. We've been having lovely riding weather lately though. I rode to the park the other day to see the giraffes. Which ended in my falling on St.Charles avenue, because I forgot to distribute the weight in my rear baskets. So I had a slo-mo pathetic scrape with the road.

I'm thinking about selling my Raleigh... It's just too too tall for me. I'll post pictures of it soon, once the weather clears up.

Back in the durrty

I am go glad to be back in New Orleans. So thrilled to be with my boy and all my friends. My life will have more meaning than chauffeuring people around. The only thing that sucks is that I'm taking a metric crap load of classes. hardly any time in the day to ride. But alas, the sun is setting later, and Mardi Gras is coming up on the horizion.

Yay!

I got a new laptop for Christmas!!! It's so cutey and baby, an Acer Aspire One, the keyboard was a little awkward at first but in getting used to it. I also got new ski boots which have been a hueg pain to break in. Merry Christmas everyone!
I've been working at City Bicycle Works during break. They were nice enough to let me work for a few weeks so I could make myself some dollars.
I can't wait to get back to NO I'm missing everyone and my bike terribly.

Lolwhuts? Sneaux?

Thursday was totally rad. It snowed in New Orleans, and it actually stuck to the ground for a while! I took a bunch of pictures, so I'm gonna post some of them here.


Yay!

Giving thanks and getting presents.

I spent my first birthday/Thanksgiving away from my family this year. I went to a small town in Georgia an hour north of Tallahassee (I'm not sure what the name is) with the Boy and his parents and nephew. It was loads of fun, but I definitely missed having Thanksgiving at home. I missed having adobo, tinola, and lumpia along with normal Thanksgiving foods. It was really nice to spend time with Brian's family and bum around in Mobile and Georgia. His sister and I have the same birthday, so we got to have a fun little celebration. Brian still hasn't taken me to get my present. I definately wont let him forget before I have to go home. My parents got me a new camera for my birthday! It's an Olympus Stylus 1030 SW. I love it. I already knew I would, since it's pretty much the same camera I had before, but there's just something so much more awesome when its brand new and shiny. I haven't had a chance to take pictures just yet. Tomorrow is pretty promising. This weekend couldn't have come sooner. School is getting so so super busy since it's finals time now. I've already had two of them and I'm a lot less stressed out about it than I normally am. Then winter break is coming up next week and I'll be able to go home. Which means skiing and snowboarding, and hopefully working at the shop.
This morning I got another flat tire, which made me very very sad. These crappy crappy roads are not being very nice to me.

Gallery Piece

Last night I journeyed to the Howlin' Wolf to see the legendarily fabulous band of Montreal. Please do give them a listen or two if you haven't yet. Their music is quite magical.
We arrived at the venue at about 8:40 considering that the ticket said 9:00 on it, so we assumed that that meant that the show would start at that time. Turns out my normally solid logic is very much incorrect, as we waited in a line that did not move for the better part of an hour. Once we stepped and assumed a position near the sound equipment modules we stood around for another eternity until the opening band, the Icy Demons from Chicago came out to play. I'm still not sure how I felt about their music. I like a lot of the things they did, but I felt like they didn't quite have everything together.
They finished their set and suddenly everything became so much more crowded. I've never been one to suffer from claustrophobia, but I was starting to feel rather squished. Also I made the mistake of wearing my brand new boots from Target which I have not broken in properly.
I loved all the people who came dressed up who came all dressed up or with face paint. I always love when people are really excited about shows.
of Montreal came onto the stage pretty close to 12 if I remember correctly. I could be lying. They were awesome. So titillating and wonderful. My night was magical and filled with centaurs and Kevin Barnes' beautiful body prancing about.
There was a guy in front of me who seemed to be on a mission to irritate me. He had long hair in a low ponytail, and was standing way inside my personal envelope. Every time I tried to move around I would bump him somehow and he would whip his head around, hitting me with his lady-hair and give me a stink eye. This continued for most of the show, even after he began dancing around, backing up into me even more. So I spent a while sandwiched between my boyfriend and lady man. I decided to do something about it so I began counter-dancing. Which is usually very successful in making people move away from you when your are in a crowded venue.
The show ended at around 1:30 or 2am, and my boy and I were so far past our bedtimes that we became quite crabby.
I am very sleepy right now, but there's still an hour to go with my shift.

Adam's Whip

This is my buddy Adam's ride. Its a Nishiki with a purple chain, and I'm super jealous of it.

I got home from NATS last night. I ended up going throught to the finals and I placed fourth in the sophomore women's division. My prize was a hefty check for $15.00, a certificate, and something nice to put on my resume. My comment sheets from the first round said that I have a "creamy sound". I really like the ring of it.