i want to ride my bicycle. i want to ride my bike.

mood: quite content
music: none. cause my stupid external harddrive, which holds all my music, won't work for some unknown reason...
random word: fly

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i just got back from my first bike ride of the summer! :) it was wonderful. the best thing about having moved is that i still don't know my way around here very well, so me and my horrible sense of direction can get good and lost. i just spent 45 minutes only in my own neighborhood, and yet i had no idea where i was going. granted, it wasn't the most exciting ride because it was just in my neighborhood, but it was exactly what i needed. normally (and by normally i mean for the month last summer that we lived here) i go out on country roads into the middle of nowhere where it's just me, some horses and a whole lot of corn. but those rides tend to be harder, more hilly, and longer, and seeing as i'm in terrible shape and probably shouldn't be working too hard anyway, i stuck to the neighborhood today.

so yesterday, i met up with dan in simsbury, which is where becca steinberg and kristen ward live. becca and rachel left for israel today on a birthright trip, so rachel was flying into connecticut last night. so dan and i decided we would surprise her at the airport. i got to becca's at like 3:30 and dan got there at like 5:30 and we all went up to the airport together. when rachel saw us, she flipped out. it was awesome :) she was jumping up and down, and we (of course) had a big sign that said "we love rachel" ...and then dan was holding a happy birthday sign too. because it was in becca's closet, and for no other reason. but anyway, then we all went out to dinner and ice cream, and it was really fun! it made me kind of sad at the same time, though, because i realized how much i'm going to miss everyone this summer and next year. but aside from that, it was a really good time.

and the best news that i have today is that cata's coming to my house in 2 days!!! and then in 3 days we'll see laura too!!! i'm so excited. hehehe.