Bike Ride #3

After work today, I met up with a friend for a bike ride. Last time we met up (2 weeks ago) we did about 16 miles and planned to do fewer this week since a) it's been a million degrees out and b)  we decided to bike the other direction, towards bars rather than woods, so we figured we'd stop for a drink. However, it was overcast, a little breezy, and a lot cooler than it has been recently, so we decided to go farther. I mapped it out when I got home and it was 25.3 miles total for me. This puts me so far ahead of 25+ miles bike rides than I had hoped to be. I'm also pretty psyched because it comes during a week that I took off from running, so I've been feeling a bit like a slug recently. I'm now hoping to do at least three more this long now.

Podcast Challenge 8

I finished reading Me the People: One Man's Selfless Quest to Rewrite the Constitution of the United States of America by Kevin Bleyer. It was as informative as it was funny. My husband was about ready to tape my mouth shut because I kept reading what I thought were particularly funny passages aloud. He was all like "I'm trying to sleep!" And I was all like "But wait! He's at the Constitution Center! He's comparing it to a 3D Ken Burns documentary!" Needless to say, I'm a nerd. In that I find things about Ken Burns and the Constitution Center so funny I need to share them with my (I thought just as nerdy as me) husband. Even when he's clearly trying to sleep.

Throughout the course of the book, Bleyer examines each article of the Constitution, how it got to be that way, and what it means for us today. At the end, he gets to the Bill of Rights, and then touches on some of the other amendments. Again, very funny and informative. I recommend it to anyone who has a basic knowledge of the Constitution and possibly wants to learn more, but mostly wants to laugh. Learning is fun(ny)!

July Volunteering

I spent my Monday night at Cook for a Friend. We made and packaged 208 chicken dinners (with veggies and apple slices) for distribution to people who cannot make dinners for themselves. I started by cleaning and trimming chicken parts, then moved on to helping package up the final product. I left hungry and smelling like chicken, but I in no way was going to eat chicken after spending 45 minutes rinsing and trimming raw chicken.

June Mail

I'm late this month with just posting, not with mailing. The card is in the mail. Happy July!

Garden Update - with food!

I went to my garden and found this:

So I did this:

I also found these, but they're not quite ready yet:

Podcast Challenge 8

I just finished The Uninvited Guests by Sadie Jones. I'm not really sure what to think of it. For some reason, I thought it was going to be a mystery, but I'm not sure why I thought that. The whole book is all over the place. Part love story, part ghost story, part ruining someone's life story? It was fine, but not really good.

June Volunteering, Take Two

For this round, I drug my mom to a One Brick event at Books Through Bars. I loved it so much last time, that I felt the need to spread the love this time around. So, we spent three hours picking and packaging books to send to prisoners. At one point, I decided I had an idea about how to find books for someone who requested books on physiology and virology, then came to my senses and made Mom help me pick out some sweet medical books. I think I'm pretty good at finding readalikes for people who request fiction from specific authors, but medicine is not my forte. I'm looking forward to going back again.