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End of week recap Dec 21st – Dec 24th, 2009

The title is misleading… this is a Monday through Thursday recap. Remember, it’s my blog, I can do whatever I want

Monday Dec 21st – Had friends over for dinner. Received Blokus from Jessica! Played that and Fluxx in good company.

Jess helped with the cooking and photo taking for the night. Dinner consisted of a homemade chicken pot pie (chicken, green peas, celery, carrots) with biscuits, side salad and white rice. [Recipe #1, #2]. We made cake for Zier’s birthday. Served up some black tea with some ginger. General consensus: good stuff all around! Photos posted on Facebook… hopefully in chronological order between the two cameras. Cleaned up most of the kitchen afterwards. I think I used all of my plates and silverware this evening!

I’d like to thank everyone for coming! [Jessica, Kenny, Teanna, Whitty, Irene, Erik, Carla, John, Josie, Jared, David]

Tuesday Dec 22nd – Went on a 26.4 mile ride at 9am in the morning with Jessica. [Route]. We rode on the North side of US-26 and Jessica climbed her first big hill on the roadie. Congrats!

My bike was making noise all morning. I looked at it after wards and found out the noise was coming from between the shifter cable and the cable housing. I added some chain oil and it cleared right up.

I went to lunch at Helvatia Tavern with Jess, Kenny and Adam(?) post ride. I got the usual: the jumbo cheese burger with fries. I hung out and played Blokus over at Jess and Kenny’s place. We went to the Winter Wonderland over at PIR later that night (a few photos came out and made it to Facebook). We came back and watched Idiocracy, and played more Blokus. Miss Kitty feel asleep on my lap – couldn’t move. Poor Alaska wasn’t feeling well.

Wednesday Dec 23rd – Cleaned up the remaining large dishes from Monday’s party (yeah, I know…). Went on a short cycling ride with Jessica at 3:15p, but it was cut short by the fog [7miles for me, 9.5 for Jess]. Saw two cars that did not stop at the intersection even though we had the right of way, and saw one MVA on Dawson Creek and Brookwood – that was enough to call it good. [Route]. Came back and made more black tea to warm up. Drove Jess (and bike) home.

Headed out to Zier’s birthday dinner at Standford’s – ordered the Pan Roasted Garlic Chicken and house salad for dinner. For dessert, I got the a tripple berry cobbler. That was some good stuff!

Hung out with Jess later that evening. We continued our search for a second tin of black tea and failed. Oh well, you’ll get some tea of your own at some point . I made at least another 5 liters of it that night with the stash that I have. Watched Momento with Jess and Kenny while he was on break from his night shift. Roamed around downtown Hillsboro at 1am. Watched 50 First Dates and called it a night. Gonna miss you. Good luck, and I’ll see you again soon! And you’ll get your tea.

Thursday Dec 24th – Woke up from my 7am alarm again. I should really turn that off since I’m on vacation I looked outside and was surprised to see a light dusting of snow / ice / frost. That’s a good way to start off Christmas Eve day. Started laundry. Went for a Christmas Eve day cycling ride around HB. It was partly cloudy and around 41 degrees out, but my toes and ears were freakin’ cold! [Route].

Later at night, I wrote “Maybe I’ll feel better when I break 2500 cycling miles for the year. There are still a few days left in 2009 ” in my Google Talk status. Should be easy enough since I’m at 2470 miles already hehehe