awesome sweetness

yesterday they had a staff preview for one of the astronomer's project's, Bailey-Salgado Project, and one of the volunteers who came in started talking to me about how i needed to be careful biking home (she saw my bike upstairs) because of the crazy fog. i hoped it would clear out before i left, but no. when i started out it wasn't that bad, but it got more and more dense as i went along.

i started to hit rush hour BIKE traffic and started talking to my brother. then the path was rerouted a little bit because they were paving the regular path. that was crazy.

as the fog got denser my eye lashes started doing something crazy. i don't even know how to describe it. i asked jeff if there's water in fog and kept trying to figure out WHAT was happening. but c'est la vie. i made it home safe and sound.

that was the awesome part.

then i was reading a blog and found this super easy recipe for delicious brownies for one. hey, why not? i gave it a try, with suspicion, and really liked it.

this morning after a beautiful run on the lake i was inspired to visit a new bakery and have breakfast on the lake. it was wonderful. i had a croissant and felt like i was in france. well... i guess i never ate at a lake in france. but i did eat a lot of croissants and this one was delicious.

and there's the sweetness =)

then i made my normal trek to work on my bike. i've taken to singing out loud as i ride to work because people get to sing in their cars and my transportation is my bike so i figure i can sing too.

p.s. if you don't already know groupon Now! has $1 deals today. one that really surprised me was $1 trips up the hancock. i've never been up the hancock before.

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