Monthly Archives: June 2013

Adventures in Houseland, part 1: The Shower Surprise

So I own a house now. It’s yellow. And I really like it.

But with anytime you move somewhere new, you spend the first few days learning all the quirks of the house. The new thing for me, is that I am the only one who is going to fix those quirks in the house. My roommate introduced me to one of those quirks they day I moved in.

The Shower Surprise
“It’s got good pressure coming out of the tub, but the shower is much lower” he told me as we were walking into the bathroom. He turned on both the hot and cold to full then pulled the little shower selector lever thingy.

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Sugar Cycles presents The Warda Race

There’s a certain level of peace knowing that you gave it your all and you still failed.

Okay, that’s a little melodramatic, but it does convey the message I’m shooting for.

On Friday, I took the day off of work and drove out to Warda, Texas. When I was telling people where my race was, everyone kept hearing “Florida”. And it wasn’t that I was saying Warda weird, I just think that people weren’t paying that much attention and their brain grabbed the most similar sounding location that they could think of, which was Florida. Warda doesn’t even have the same number of syllables. Warda’s kinda in the middle of no where, so I don’t blame them for never hearing of it.
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