That Bike Helmet Will Come In Handy When I Trip Over Another Box
Posted by Moose on April 7th, 2008. Filed under: Friends.I planned to spend my weekend lovingly polishing my new kitchen cupboards with an environmentally-friendly mixture of olive oil and warm water before toddling off to Bed Bath and Beyond with the stack of coupons my mother left for me, many dating from 2005. So naturally I spent most of the weekend calling people up and asking them to help me procrastinate. People are remarkably obliging.
Proposed Weekend List:
1. Unpack all boxes.
2. Prepare taxes, while rocking back and forth trying to convince myself that my money goes only to public libraries and hot firemen who lift small kittens out of large trees.
3. Scrub bathroom grout while reciting multiplication tables.
Actual Weekend List:
1. Learn that my apartment bounces laughter about in a rather unfortunate manner, unfortunate because I scored said apartment by claiming to be “quiet” and, in fact, might even have signed papers declaring noiseless existence. Decide I don’t care because friends are important, especially when they arrive with three different kinds of Cowgirl Creamery cheese.
2. Obtain just enough kitchen supplies to make tater tots. (Needs: Baking sheet, ketchup. Done and done.)
3. Eat best biscuits this side of anywhere. (Blue Jay Cafe, how I adore you. And your biscuity breakfast sandwich.)
4. Find and test neighborhood beer garden. Deem it far superior to former neighborhood beer garden. (Fewer boozy hipsters, more bike supplies.) (It’s also a bike store!)
5. Discover new longing for a pink Schwinn with basket.
6. Help Captain Queso test bike helmets by running head-first into a wooden support beam.
This post was brought to you by a grant from the Shameless Procrastinators Foundation and the Wasn’t That So Much More Fun Than What You Had Planned? Now Why Don’t You Go Home and Rip Up the Rest of Your To-Do Lists Corporation.
April 7th, 2008 at 12:28 pm
Girls who come over bearing cheese are always welcome. Especially if they bring friends with wine.
April 7th, 2008 at 12:35 pm
The Blue Jay Cafe sounds fantastic. I may have to try it out when I’m there next.
April 7th, 2008 at 12:52 pm
Isn’t biking boozy illegal in CA???
Oh and I love a fellow procrastinator (well love you know in that platonic nice friendly sort of way… err stepping away from the keyboard NOW!!!)
April 7th, 2008 at 2:09 pm
I love Blue Jay with every fiber of my soul. And Cowgirl Creamery.
April 7th, 2008 at 2:28 pm
Bikes and beer. Hmmm.
April 7th, 2008 at 3:49 pm
I’ll have you know that those Bed Bath & Beyond coupons from 2005 are ALL STILL GOOD!!!!
April 7th, 2008 at 4:02 pm
If only I knew you wanted to go to BBB!! I could have slept in the tub…wait…no….the sink in the kitchen looked comfy though! I spent an hour looking at sheets at BBB last night and have to go to another one tomorrow!
April 7th, 2008 at 5:07 pm
Oh pleasepleaseplease have some photos of the helmet-testing. Or videos!!
April 7th, 2008 at 5:26 pm
Oh man, those sound like perfect procrastination distractions. I think you made the proper choice in eating cheese, testing bike helmets, drinking beer and eating delicious biscuits.
April 7th, 2008 at 6:12 pm
Distractions are a very good thing! Happy to be one if you are taking visitors.
April 7th, 2008 at 8:45 pm
I concur. Videos of the helmet testing would make my day. My week, even.
April 8th, 2008 at 7:27 am
need biscuity breakfast sandwich. mmm…
April 8th, 2008 at 6:28 pm
Can you really recite multiplication tables in your head? Because if you can, you so need to put that on your resume, and a t-shirt that you never let me borrow, ever, lest I be caught publicly with my lying pants afire.
April 8th, 2008 at 6:52 pm
Mmm. Tell me more about this Cowgirl Creamery Cheese you speak of.
April 8th, 2008 at 9:20 pm
mmm tator tots. and cowgirl creamery! the name alone rocks. the cheese though – mmmm.
April 9th, 2008 at 8:01 am
Tater tots – mmmmm! Cheese brought by friends – more mmmm. Am so hungry now just thinking of the two. That sound you hear is my stomach growling!
April 9th, 2008 at 3:48 pm
I am deeply envious of your cheese. I miss Cowgirl Creamery horribly.
April 11th, 2008 at 10:38 pm
Hi, I just stumbled into your blog via finslippy, and wow…I thought I was a procrastinater! Enjoy yourself…you only live once right!?!
April 13th, 2008 at 5:11 am
If ya get the bike, free tune ups at Squid and Grunt Bike shop!, Sorry about the bad news there a few posts ago, Been away and not reading up as I should!
April 14th, 2008 at 11:15 pm
Wowie! The beer n’ bike shop sounds AWESOME! Cheese from friends is the best kind!
April 23rd, 2008 at 2:38 pm
The actual weekend list sounds much, much more better than the proposed list. (Well, except for 6. 6 sounds like an ouch waiting to happen. Or happened. Something.)