Mid-Summers

Hurrah I have a car again. The whole lead up to getting it was very long and nerve racking. However, now there is great relief and pleasure in the knowledge that I can drive where and when I want.

I took it for a small trip yesterday, along some freeway driving and such to see how she felt. “Dreamy” fits pretty well. Although the car was great the trip itself was not so good. Well, the trip back wasn’t so good.

After completing the task I had at the other end of this trip I began the trip back. The first stop, about 2 minutes down the road, was a gas station. $2.89.9 per gallon was a little depressing, gas went up a good 15-20 cents since I last had my own car. That wasn’t what made it so bad though, what made this stop bad was completely unrelated to cars.

I stood in front of the little panel and slid my card in. Then, as I stood waiting for it to process my pin number something went into my left eye. I have no idea what it was but I felt it, its uncomfortable and instant tear inducing mass. I spent a good 3 minutes trying to read the panel through the layer of fluid. Eventually it seemed to be out, or at least out enough to function again.

That wasn’t all that went wrong on the tip home however. It took substantially greater time then it should have. What might have been a 25-30 minute drive turned into an hour and 10 minutes do to the two miles of almost completely stopped traffic. I don’t know what happened because by the time I got to where the fire trucks and police cars were stationed they were picking up the cones and clearing away.

That was the worst of the day, my Summer Solstice dinner came out great. A ground turkey meat pasta dish. The meat was cooked up with red and white and green onion, garlic, various herbs, and some red wine. That was mixed into the rotini pasta with fresh cut tomato chunks and a olive oil and vinegar sauce. All of this was served over a bed of fresh red leaf lettuce. We had some raspberry sorbet and blackberry ice cream for dessert.

The eve turned out well despite my still irritated eye. Today my eye still seems bothersome but I think it is getting better, though I can’t quite tell. Either way I am not too worried by it, just annoyed.

I hope everyone is having a nice Mid-Summers day. I know I am happy, for today is the longest day of the year. From here on the nights shall be getting longer once again.