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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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