adventurous me
13 June 2002 01:52![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
juldeaToday, I went on an adventure! So much so that when I came home I napped for 5 hours. Lack of sleep might make tomorrow quite adventurous too.
Geez, after finishing this I realized it was pretty long.
I left the apartment this morning at 11:15 to catch the T in for a noon Pilates class at the gym. As soon as the door locked behind me, I thought, "Oh! Umbrella!" since the weather was supposed to be off-and-on rainy. My next thought was, "Oh! Keys!"... which were in the pocket of my shorts in my bedroom. Then the thought of, "Oh! That light flashing says "fire" next to it!" led me to the stairs and down to the lobby.
Luckily, it was just that the construction workers in the basement hit a sprinkler, and that set things off.
Resigning myself to no umbrella and no return to the apartment until later when Adriana was home, I went to the T stop and got to the gym with no incident.
Pilates was good, although I don't think I like the instructor much. Bouncing class (rebounding) was fun and I did much better the second time around. The instructor for bouncing is very neat and hyper.
So then I left the gym, and it was still happily dry outside although pretty chilly (I had a sweatshirt on with my coat around my waist if needed). I decided to take the cross-street next to the gym and walk down to Beacon Ave, another main street (parallel to Commonwealth Ave) and where I will be moving to this Friday. This is probably equivalent in Norman to walking from Lindsey to Main.
I stopped in a CVS (drugstore) on the corner, and then headed down St. Paul Ave. to Beacon. It was a very pretty residential-ish side street. I passed a beautiful wide, green, grassy park with a fountain and benches. Then I passed a KidSpace-ish playground that just looked wonderful. Near the playground was a large (physics computer lab sized) rose garden with an arched trellis to stand under and so many different colors of roses... Further down the street, right along the sidewalk, a white rosebush in full bloom arched over the gate to an apartment complex. I leaned over and smelled the roses and marveled at their pure white color. I knew that picking one would cause it to die and then I'd lose that vision in my head of what it looked like, so I left them alone.
On the corner of St. Paul and Beacon, I saw a car in the street with the bumper sticker, "Have Uterus, Will Travel". I'm not sure what it meant, but it made me laugh.
At this point I decided to write all these things down so I would remember to post them (turns out it was unnecessary, so eh). I looked in my backpack for my regular pad of note paper, and while I didn't find that I did find my Keroppi notepad. Then I realized that my two favorite pens that have been in my backpack since LAST Christmas weren't there either. I was upset. I didn't have any writing utensil. Then I put my hand in my coat pocket, and wow! A yellow crayon! So I wrote these things down in yellow crayon on a sheet of keroppi paper. :)
Speaking of keroppi, I passed a store on Beacon that said "San Rio" on the front and (of course) went in. They had the usual mess of Hello Kitty stuff (including "Hello Pretty" cosmetics), some Batz Maru, and a new character that made me stop short - ChocoCat! A very cute black cat. I wish I weren't budgeting myself and could've bought some of those things. At least the letter set (as if I don't have enough stationary).
On Beacon I found one of the thai restaurants on my list, and stopped for my Wednesday thai food. I had chicken and veggies in peanut sauce. It was alright, but really bland by my standards. I have had that dish at thai kum koon several times and usually it's very flavorful. Somehow this restaurant made all the vegetables taste blah and the peanut sauce not very peanuty at all, even though I could see chunks of peanut in it. Oh, well. The amusing part about that thai restaurant is that at night it's a kareoke bar.
It had started sprinkling while I was in the restaurant, but was so light that it almost didn't matter. I kept walking, and saw a lingerie store with a hiring sign in the window - bingo! It was quite boring from the inside, though, all black, beige, or white and filled with over-50 women. Nothing special. Plus they were looking for full-time help, so off I went.
Another store - used clothing, but not of any type I'd imagined... $24 for a tank top, USED! I was not in the right part of town for my kind of shopping. ;) Of course, while I was in there, the sky opened up. Whee raining buckets!
I, of course, went right back out in there and kept walking. Got out of the commercial area and past a lot of nice lawns and apartment buildings. Crossed the street to go into the Star Market (grocery store) next to what will be my new apartment and got an application there. I was dripping wet, but I'm sure they understood. :) Walk, walk, walk, be stopped by a group of teenagers or older who want their picture taken in the rain. Three different people of the 10ish ended up giving me their cameras. It was really funny, because some of the other people in the group were saying, "Quit giving her cameras, let her get home and out of the rain!"
Made it all the way to Chestnut Hill Ave, the cross street from Beacon back to Commonwealth closest to my apartment. Walk walk walk, back to the apartment, rain letting up the whole way. I'm not dripping anymore, just soaked. I get inside and take off my wet shoes, socks, and pants, and put on my bathrobe over my sweatshirt. Fiddle online a bit, measure how far I walked (about 3.5 miles, at least 2 or 2.5 in rain), decide to nap.
Thud, snore, up 5 hours later at midnight :)
Geez, after finishing this I realized it was pretty long.
I left the apartment this morning at 11:15 to catch the T in for a noon Pilates class at the gym. As soon as the door locked behind me, I thought, "Oh! Umbrella!" since the weather was supposed to be off-and-on rainy. My next thought was, "Oh! Keys!"... which were in the pocket of my shorts in my bedroom. Then the thought of, "Oh! That light flashing says "fire" next to it!" led me to the stairs and down to the lobby.
Luckily, it was just that the construction workers in the basement hit a sprinkler, and that set things off.
Resigning myself to no umbrella and no return to the apartment until later when Adriana was home, I went to the T stop and got to the gym with no incident.
Pilates was good, although I don't think I like the instructor much. Bouncing class (rebounding) was fun and I did much better the second time around. The instructor for bouncing is very neat and hyper.
So then I left the gym, and it was still happily dry outside although pretty chilly (I had a sweatshirt on with my coat around my waist if needed). I decided to take the cross-street next to the gym and walk down to Beacon Ave, another main street (parallel to Commonwealth Ave) and where I will be moving to this Friday. This is probably equivalent in Norman to walking from Lindsey to Main.
I stopped in a CVS (drugstore) on the corner, and then headed down St. Paul Ave. to Beacon. It was a very pretty residential-ish side street. I passed a beautiful wide, green, grassy park with a fountain and benches. Then I passed a KidSpace-ish playground that just looked wonderful. Near the playground was a large (physics computer lab sized) rose garden with an arched trellis to stand under and so many different colors of roses... Further down the street, right along the sidewalk, a white rosebush in full bloom arched over the gate to an apartment complex. I leaned over and smelled the roses and marveled at their pure white color. I knew that picking one would cause it to die and then I'd lose that vision in my head of what it looked like, so I left them alone.
On the corner of St. Paul and Beacon, I saw a car in the street with the bumper sticker, "Have Uterus, Will Travel". I'm not sure what it meant, but it made me laugh.
At this point I decided to write all these things down so I would remember to post them (turns out it was unnecessary, so eh). I looked in my backpack for my regular pad of note paper, and while I didn't find that I did find my Keroppi notepad. Then I realized that my two favorite pens that have been in my backpack since LAST Christmas weren't there either. I was upset. I didn't have any writing utensil. Then I put my hand in my coat pocket, and wow! A yellow crayon! So I wrote these things down in yellow crayon on a sheet of keroppi paper. :)
Speaking of keroppi, I passed a store on Beacon that said "San Rio" on the front and (of course) went in. They had the usual mess of Hello Kitty stuff (including "Hello Pretty" cosmetics), some Batz Maru, and a new character that made me stop short - ChocoCat! A very cute black cat. I wish I weren't budgeting myself and could've bought some of those things. At least the letter set (as if I don't have enough stationary).
On Beacon I found one of the thai restaurants on my list, and stopped for my Wednesday thai food. I had chicken and veggies in peanut sauce. It was alright, but really bland by my standards. I have had that dish at thai kum koon several times and usually it's very flavorful. Somehow this restaurant made all the vegetables taste blah and the peanut sauce not very peanuty at all, even though I could see chunks of peanut in it. Oh, well. The amusing part about that thai restaurant is that at night it's a kareoke bar.
It had started sprinkling while I was in the restaurant, but was so light that it almost didn't matter. I kept walking, and saw a lingerie store with a hiring sign in the window - bingo! It was quite boring from the inside, though, all black, beige, or white and filled with over-50 women. Nothing special. Plus they were looking for full-time help, so off I went.
Another store - used clothing, but not of any type I'd imagined... $24 for a tank top, USED! I was not in the right part of town for my kind of shopping. ;) Of course, while I was in there, the sky opened up. Whee raining buckets!
I, of course, went right back out in there and kept walking. Got out of the commercial area and past a lot of nice lawns and apartment buildings. Crossed the street to go into the Star Market (grocery store) next to what will be my new apartment and got an application there. I was dripping wet, but I'm sure they understood. :) Walk, walk, walk, be stopped by a group of teenagers or older who want their picture taken in the rain. Three different people of the 10ish ended up giving me their cameras. It was really funny, because some of the other people in the group were saying, "Quit giving her cameras, let her get home and out of the rain!"
Made it all the way to Chestnut Hill Ave, the cross street from Beacon back to Commonwealth closest to my apartment. Walk walk walk, back to the apartment, rain letting up the whole way. I'm not dripping anymore, just soaked. I get inside and take off my wet shoes, socks, and pants, and put on my bathrobe over my sweatshirt. Fiddle online a bit, measure how far I walked (about 3.5 miles, at least 2 or 2.5 in rain), decide to nap.
Thud, snore, up 5 hours later at midnight :)