Brain freeze.

Today has been BEAUTIFUL. It was so beautiful, in fact, that I ran OUTSIDE instead of going to the gym. Here's the cool thing about running outside when it's still technically winter: you feel like a champion. I'm telling you, I was to running as John Mayer is to the guitar this afternoon, because it felt like spring. Everybody knows how it is when you run outdoors in the winter. You struggle and you get that coppery blood taste in the back of your throat. Today was like running in the summertime when the sun is out, but cool to the point where there's a constant fan on your face. I liked it.

Speaking of cold, though, I had a painful little experience during an instance of brain freeze yesterday. I got a smoothie after the gym and chugged it a little too fast (couldn't help it, it tasted good). I was driving, and it happened: brain freeze. It's like getting the breath knocked out of you but in your head. You feel like your cranial piece is stuck between two falling rocks while getting drilled at the same time. Not fun, right? As it happened I realized I was holding my head with a crazy-looking grimace on my face, so I started to laugh by myself, and I wondered what other people would have thought if they'd seen me at that moment. It made me laugh harder, and then my brain thawed, so I was happy again. Woohoo.

Gotta love brain freeze, am I right? I rank it up there with lemon juice in papercuts and getting punched in the throat. Throw 'em in a hat and draw one! Maybe not...

Anyway, it's Thursday evening already and I'm chugging along to the weekend which will be full of work as well as my dad's b'day. Hopefully it'll be a good one money-wise, because a week from TODAY I'm headin' down to good ole Cherry Grove with Ms. ADB. Can't WAIT, and I've only got five shifts of work and a resume to get through between now and then. Not bad, right?

New "Office" tonight. And State/Wake. And "Earl". And four weeks 'til Mayercraft. (Yes!).

Peace outside.
Drew

P.S. Remember kids, Freezo the dog says, "Don't drink frozen beverages too fast."