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revisiting my resolution

maybe you thought i forgot about my new year's resolution?  no i did not.

today after a beautiful run on the lake where i saw the HI GUY!!!!!  i headed to greek town first.

a co-worker recommended Artopolis (just south of jackson on halsted).  it was delicious.  i had a portobello chévre sandwich.  it was a tiny bit pricey (at least in my mind), but i literally took one bite and couldn't help but be overwhelmed by the deliciousness.  yum!  
i was really enjoying the bread of the sandwich when i looked up and what did i see?  they sell loaves!  i bought one to bring home.

so i have a thing with preservatives.  i don't like them.  so i've been looking for bread places for awhile and haven't found one i love.  one of my planned stops for my ride home was to hit up a bread place.  so this was perfect.  i picked a something olive bread and then still went to the bakery i intended to visit.

i stopped at D'amato's (on grand, just west of halsted).  they were super nice.  they even bread sliced my bread.  they're apparently famous for their pizza slices, but there was NO way i could eat anything else at that point.  this place is cash only.  so not a place that is necesarily easy for me to get to, but i'm looking forward to enjoying some homemade bread.  i put it in the freezer and plan to enjoy the bread from Artopolis first.

i even stopped at Cookie Bar a new place in Lincoln Park (lincoln & altgeld).  i got some sort-of peanut butter, chocolate cookie.  it's delicious.  they were SUPER nice too.  it's super moist, which i like and they had all kinds of different flavors.

i combated the endless potholes and wind gusts, they were crazy a little annoying.  i actually felt like i might lose balance on my bike a few times, but don't worry i didn't.
although i did hit a crazy pothole on a bridge on division and my purse/bag popped out of my basket.  luckily nothing fell out of my bag, especially because the bridge was one of those holely ones, right above a river.
today was full of lots of "ugh"s and "i hate this road"s, etc. out loud.  oh well.

see i didn't give up!
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