look at our footprints in the dust

1. Well, yesterday I was still coughing and was hoping it was just continued throat/lung irritation from the weekend but then in the evening I suddenly got mega congested, so I've officially got a cold, yay. I couldn't get any sleep last night due to the congestion, so between that and my nose running non-stop I decided it was best to work from home today. I am actually not feeling that bad, though, aside from being super tired from not getting any sleep. I'm going to work from home again tomorrow and we'll see about Friday.

2. I rode my bike to Shake Shack for lunch. They're pretty much my favorite burger place these days.

3. In the afternoon/early evening I was feeling super hungry but had no energy to make anything so I ordered dinner. I decided to get from Sweetgreen, which I've never had before. Being pretty much all salads, it's not something Carla would be that interested in, so I figured now was a good time to try them. I got their super green goddess salad, which has roasted sweet potatoes and was very tasty.

4. I perked up quite a bit after dinner and decided to walk over to the nearby ice cream place for dessert. Haven't been there in a while and it was perfect for a hot evening.

5. Look at this sweet boy!

1. I walked up to 85 Degrees for my after lunch walk and they have a new smoothie! It's ube, coconut, and mango and is really tasty. The tagline said it's halo-halo influenced and it definitely has that vibe. The coconut is not just coconut flavor, for example, but chunks of macapuno.



I'd get it again!

2. I love the expression on Jasper's face.

1. The other day I saw a post on instagram for a new cinnamon roll shop in Grand Central Market downtown, and I decided that I would ride my bike down there this morning to try it out. It's about twenty miles one way, so it's definitely a long ride, and if Carla were here, I'd just suggest we take the train. As it is, I took the train part of the way home because my bike's battery was low and I knew I didn't have enough juice for the whole way. It can be ridden with no battery, but because of having a battery, it's much heavier than the average non-electric bike, so I didn't fancy having to slog the last ten miles or so with no motor.

Anyway! It's pretty easy to just generally follow the path of the train downtown as there is a bike path for much of the way, though it does just randomly end and start up again in places, and there were times when I got away from it because I couldn't tell the right way to go to get to the next leg, but as long as you generally keep going east, you'll get to downtown, so that's what I did.

I left the house around 8:20 or so and it took me about an hour and a half. It was not super sunny yet and there wasn't a lot of traffic even when I was just on the road, so overall it was a nice ride. The website had told me the shop was open at nine, but actually they didn't open until ten, so I walked around the market and checked out the other shops first. There were lots of other tasty looking places, including Egg Slut, which is probably the most famous and definitely had the longest line. I got a matcha chai latte from a bakery with no lines and that was really nice to cool off with.

Then finally the cinammon roll place was open and I got my blueberry lemon cinnamon roll.



It is pretty big, though not as big as I thought it might be from the pics I had seen beforehand. Would have been better to share, but I could finish it. Would I go there again specifically for this? Probably not, but it was a fun outing.

Afterwards I rode my bike to the closest train station but that was an underground one and I didn't want to go to the trouble of lugging my bike down, so I rode for a couple miles to get to one I knew was aboveground (most of them are) and then took that till I was about five miles from home and rode the rest of the way. Annoyingly, I was not able to sit at all on the train even though there were seats, as there was no way to sit and hang on to my bike while also not being in everyone's way.

And I stopped at Campos to grab a burrito for lunch because I'd seen a guy eating a burrito on the train and it looked really good!

Aside from the fact that my lungs feel tight in a way that reminds me of smoggy summer days when I was a kid (I don't think the air quality was ideal for a ~30 mile bike ride), I had a great morning.

2. I finished up the third Star Wars poster puzzle.



3. I caught Molly in the middle of sitting up.

I went down to Disneyland after work last night for dinner. No plans in particular as there aren't any new menu items or anything to try, but I managed to find plenty of new stuff to check out once I got there.

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