The $.79 secret, See's lollies, and greetings from Charlottesville, Antarctica

it has taken me 19 minutes to type the last 3 words because my fingers haven't thawed from the frigid 3-hour ride i just took. and i had an icy headwind both out AND back. that is just not fair!

on a good note, this weekend was spent discovering two really cool things: 79 cent chenile gloves at harris teeter (with the v.i.c. card, of course! and that stands for 'very important customer', by the way, dear readers. those people in marketing are fancy!). i threw those bad boys under my uber-thick specialized gloves and i was toasty warm all day yesterday (save 30 minutes because i did the dumbest thing and stopped riding for a bit to look at monticello. which is dope, but not worth freezing fingers), and all ride today. but now my hands decide to freeze. damn raynaud's syndrome (which, according to the innnnernet, can be a useful predictor of autoimmune rheumatic disease. yay)!

good thing #2: see's lollipops. people, if you have no tried these, you have led an unfulfilled life. they are a san francisco 'thing', and are unparalleled in taste and fun-factor. i found them on sale at cvs on friday and jumped for joy. so much joy, in fact, that i gave a handful to the teenaged barrista at greeberry's because he could tell i was happy about something unrelated to the latte i was drinking.

so, life is good. so good, in fact, i'm enjoying a lolli now. doesn't help me get back to race weight, but oh well.

speaking of which, here is a photo of a newly-discovered species, bovinus aquis lozano. i couldn't find a pic of another new species, the semi-nocturnal hippopotamandy, on google images. wtf?

bovinus aquis lozano, aka mandytee; active in winter months