so... showing my truck again this weekend. the guy actually checked it out last week and drove it around the neighborhood; he wants to take it out on the highway sunday and he actually even mentioned possible paperwork should he like what he sees come sunday. we'll see. i'm not getting my hopes up. every time i do the whole "all eggs in" thing, i get let down. i'm just crossing my fingers and praying. that's about all i can do.
in other news, i have three days in a row off starting sunday!! if i can find a decent hiking trail in the charleston area, i might go on a mini-backpacking trip. maybe. we'll see. i'm semi-excited about this.
also, a few awesome hiking discoveries:
1) i'm getting better at figuring out how much things weigh by the feel of 'em! =) i picked up four pears today at publix and figured i'd take a guess at how much they weighed. i was spot on at 1.5#. i was sorta proud of that. :)
2) baby bell cheeses just came out with a white cheddar cheese! yes!
3) i discovered this new product at publix today... it's called mia? mio? anyways... it's a drink mix and it comes in quite a few different flavors. i picked up the sweet tea mix just for shits & giggles, and it's not bad at all! no weird aftertaste that you get with all of those other zero-cal sweeteners. none of that nasty, back of the mouth grossness.
umm... that's about it for now. until i sell my truck, there's no real new news on the hiking front. just sleeping in my sleeping bag and trying to pretend i'm on my way to springer.
as a side note, i went to a thrift store today just to see what i could find. i found bill bryson's "a walk in the woods" in there. right where it belongs. that book is so overrated. i guess i wouldn't have been nearly as disappointed as i was in it had i known going into it that he didn't even hike a quarter of the trail. but everybody raved at how great a book it was because he hiked the AT and wrote about his experiences, blah blah blah. he basically stayed in a hotel the whole time and bitched when the goin' got tough. i dunno. i just wasn't a big fan, and thought it kinda funny that the "most popular" book on the AT is sittin' on a shelf, waitin' for somebody to plop two quarters down and buy it.
as a second side note, i also saw TWO copies of a book that i bought in a discount bin a while back. "amanda bright @ home." it makes me wonder just how crappy the book really is, for me to have bought it in a discount bin, and for two copies to be sitting in the same thrift store. i wonder if it'll even be worth my time? o.O oh well... i guess if i can read twilight, i can read this book. but then again, the writing in "the memory keeper's daughter" was so bad i couldn't even get past the second or third chapter. "light of the streetlight"... that still gets me.
as a side note, i went to a thrift store today just to see what i could find. i found bill bryson's "a walk in the woods" in there. right where it belongs. that book is so overrated. i guess i wouldn't have been nearly as disappointed as i was in it had i known going into it that he didn't even hike a quarter of the trail. but everybody raved at how great a book it was because he hiked the AT and wrote about his experiences, blah blah blah. he basically stayed in a hotel the whole time and bitched when the goin' got tough. i dunno. i just wasn't a big fan, and thought it kinda funny that the "most popular" book on the AT is sittin' on a shelf, waitin' for somebody to plop two quarters down and buy it.
as a second side note, i also saw TWO copies of a book that i bought in a discount bin a while back. "amanda bright @ home." it makes me wonder just how crappy the book really is, for me to have bought it in a discount bin, and for two copies to be sitting in the same thrift store. i wonder if it'll even be worth my time? o.O oh well... i guess if i can read twilight, i can read this book. but then again, the writing in "the memory keeper's daughter" was so bad i couldn't even get past the second or third chapter. "light of the streetlight"... that still gets me.
