those dang fool bikes.... i tell ya...

So the other day I was riding my bike to school... now this is a common occurrence because I always ride my bike to school even in thunderstorms (which it was doing yesterday), but yesterday was different. On my way to school I thought my petal felt funny but I didn't think any thing of it until I was riding home in the rain and I was almost home and it started making a funny noise. All of a sudden the left bike petal and shiny thing that connects it to the bike FELL OFF!!!!! I am not kidding I was just biking along the sidewalk minding my own business next to a busy street where millions of cars were driving by pointing a laughing at me that my bike petal fell off. Now this is no exaggeration there had to have been a million cars drive by that saw smoke coming out of my ears and me fuming about having to push my bike back the 40 miles to my apartment up hill in the pouring rain.

So anyways I push my bike back and I then call Eric to ask if he had the nerves to have loosened my bike petal when he was monkeying around with it last weekend.... he claimed he had nothing to do with it, and we proceeded to argue about what happened. Finally it ended up that he sent me a detailed picture instruction of how to fix this stupid problem (an 8 step procedure note picture), but I DIDN'T HAVE THE RIGHT TOOLS! Finally after calling around I found that my friend Jesse had the sockets I would need, but he was working until 5 pm and this was about 4:30 when I had cooled off enough to figure out this problem. By that time I had made 5-6 trips out to the bike to hammer on the piece look at the other side etc.... and of course the 6 apartments around the bike rack all had their windows open, because by this time the weather was getting nicer, and watching and laughing at me, HOW RUDE!

So first Peter came by and checked out the bike, he decided I should wait for Jesse because he didn't have the proper tools, so that was what I did. Now when Jesse came and looked at the bike he decided that the socket wouldnt work to take out the other bolt to go find one I needed, and that I should go to the bike store and maybe they had the right piece. So off to the bike store I go and two nice ladies listened while I tried to explain my predicament...only to discover they couldn't sell me a stinking bolt! They had to sell me a $90 crank blah blah blah because there is no reason it should have come apart if it was not damaged... JUST GREAT!

So I go home and am complaining to Katie who is home by now when I discover that my roommate Jessi's boyfriend left us with a tool kit so I open it up and guess what is inside!!?!?!?! A RATCHET AND SOCKET SET! So we track on down to the bike rack again and unscrew the bolt on the other side and get in the car and head on over to our friendly neighbor hood ACE. When we get there we try to find the piece ourselves... no such luck, and so we ask the man behind the counter. While we were waiting for him some lady tries to cut in front of us in line and the man was like those young ladies were here first and so the lady got really mad, but he helped us find the right stuff we needed, we also found an exciting present for Shaina's birthday but that is a whole other story.... Anyways we got out of ACE with a new bolt and washer for a whopping $1.10 and went home and tried to put the bike back together which was confusing because everything turns the opposite way so Katie held the petal and i tightened... luckily I put the petals on right the first time. AND THAT IS HOW I FIXED MY OWN BIKE!

Eric should be proud.... haha but today I told him that if fell off again when Katie and I were doing some off road bike riding and attempted to fly over a wood chip pile and it busted off and Katie had to pull me home, now if you know Katie and I this would create a funny image in your mind.... Some day I will write about the adventures of our biker gang.

Now thank you for sticking with this whole blog while I wrote about the most interesting story ever... NOT! but really thank you... maybe one of you will chuckle at some point in the story, I guess it is sort of funny now that I look back on it

more school, school, school

I have now started my junior year at Northfield High School after recovering from the Minnesota state fair that I spent out of the 12 days at, it was well worth, you always have to love the state fair and watching people. On Monday night I got home at about 4:30, did my chores, ate supper, took a shower and went to bed, which happened at only 7:30 and I slept all the way to 6:00am. Wow! i love sleep!
Anyways back to the school. I am a link leader, which means I help litte 9th graders find their classes and stuff like that so I had to be at school at 7 am yesterday. That was a lot of fun, we did some challenges and played some games and it was actually pretty cool. Then I went to classes for 15 minutes which is always a nice way to ease back into the school schedule. I then returned home and did chores then left with my dad for the Twins game. Note to self: it takes longer to ride the tranist than it does to drive there, next time we're driving. It was a pretty good game we left after the 7th inning but it was cool nonetheless. Then I got home at 11 pm and went straight to bed and here I am waiting to go to Randolph for FFA for the first 2 hours and ready for another day of school.

school school school

Some interesting things that have happened since I have been in the great town of Brookings South Dakota:
1. We took mom and dad to the backyard BBQ Shack for lunch when we got here Monday, first words out of their mouth... Is it safe to eat here? haha no one has gotten sick yet....

2. Purchased a bed, which we managed to shove into the back of the suburban, that was interesting to say the least

3. It has been 3000 degrees since we have been here and Katie and I purchased the last 2 fans in the town of Brookings from Runnings yesterday, and this is no exaggeration, however the temperature has managed to drop 15 degrees since we purchased them.

4. Coming home from the bookstore yesterday we saw an older man laying on the ground next to his bike with 3 cars pulled over behind him, best we could tell he got hit by the car... this is pretty scary because I have to cross that road on MY BIKE!

5. We also managed to get acquainted with the grocery aisle of walmart yesterday by each spending $50.00 on groceries

6. We cooked lunch yesterday! Yes Mary, Katie and I made sloppy joes... no big deal haha

Alright I know that none of this was all that interesting but I know someone out there was dying to hear about the wonderful adventures of Grace today. Hopefully one of these days I will actually have something exciting to tell you all!