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shannon and i were planning on strawberry picking tonight. but apparently strawberry picking season starts tomorrow so that spoiled our plans. instead we went bike riding and ended up at margaritaville for strawberry daiquiris. it was a great idea. todd had told us in advance that margaritaville is a dude bar and that it would be full of dudes. i'd never noticed before, but it totally IS. it was quite obvious from the time we arrived and we felt their eyes on us. eventually it became apparent that we were in the middle of some kind of meat market and people were hitting on each other and buying each other drinks. it was rather surreal. regardless, we still liked the chips & salsa, and the drinks. i think we'd go again, it wasn't bad for a VERY occassional diversion from the regular.

while we were on our bike ride we stopped at a park and sat on some big limestone rocks. we noticed a groundhog and made "aww" sounds at it, then continued chatting. a while later shannon noticed a red fox. we thought he was pretty cute too and were amazed at all the wild-life in ktown. the fox moved closer and seemed to be stalking something, i was hoping it was just a bird or one of the ducks in the pond (but not the adorable mallard ducklings that passed us in the river). he moved closer to the groundhog, and was quite clearly stalking it! i was certain nothing would happen, it was perposterous, they were almost the same size! but sure enough, the fox attacked the groundhog. i started freaking out, waving my hands at my face, saying "shannon, make him stop!", while shannon was already calling out to him, trying to break them up. eventually she ran all the way over to them and the fox trotted away, while the groundhog had managed to get inside it's burrow. we think it was safe. we then took to calling the fox profanities to calm ourselves. it was like national geographic right in front of us!

i wish i could call my mom right now to tell it to call off the troops. but it's too late and she'd already be in bed. i'll have to do it tomorrow. my stance will not have changed before morning. i wish my pride didn't smart so much. i'm back at square minus one.

haha, i just came across this on the internet and it made me laugh:

Good Idea: Getting to know someone by asking them on a date.

Bad Idea: Getting to know someone by Googling them and reading their entire blog.

that's good rule of thumb. i think everyone should follow it.

if you love me
won't you let me know?