I LIKE YOUR BIKE!!!!!

I don't know if you've heard, but i love bikes

always have

probably always will

a while ago i made it a practice to tell people that I like their bikes when i see them riding around. not because i necessarily like their bikes, but because i like the fact that they're riding a bike. when you're driving past someone on their bike you don't really have time for more than an "I like your bike!" christian started doing it too, and he'd tell me if he had told people he liked their bikes throughout the day. so I decided it would be fun to make a game out of it

any time we're driving in a car together the game is on.

if one of us sees someone riding a bike we have to call it first. if we see a biker at the same time and call it at the same time, neither of us gets it. this has maybe happened twice. it's not too common.

even after we've called a biker we still don't get the point until we yell "i like your bike!" loud enough for them to possibly hear us. if they're too far away no point. if you're too embarrassed to say it loud enough, no point. however, if the effort was made, and the rider happens to be wearing headphones, you get the point anyway. as long as if they hadn't been wearing headphones they probably would have heard you.

you get an extra point if they look at you after you after you call out to them. and another point if they say something back to you

in a group of bikers you get one point per person and an extra point for each person that looks at you, but only one extra point per group if they say something back to you.

while we were thinking of all the possible things that might happen this question came up. "what if we startle the rider so much that they fell off of their bike?" that would earn the caller a ten point bonus. I'm not sure if that would actually ever happen, nor would i want it to, but it's just a funny idea.

it's an on going game with no real winner. for every hundred points you earn you get to choose a food for the opposing player to hand feed to you. When you hit one hundred, your meter goes back to zero, but the other player gets to keep his or her points and play till his or her hundred mark.

christian hit his hundred mark sometime last week. I'm only at 39. I owe him a hand fed double double from In-N-Out. I'm not the most competitive person in the world, but I'm determined to get my skinless grapes fed to me well before christian gets his second set of hundred points.

there will be pictures when christian and i find time to make our way to In-N-Out and order his double double. Check in sometime soon to check them out. =)

I'm such a blog slacker

One of my new Year resolutions this year was to fall off the face of the planet. I had a particularly unpleasant start to my year and felt like I needed more "me time". I kept mostly to myself and did a lot of soul searching. I felt like a Mission was something I would like to do, and then I told everyone about it (because, well, that's pretty exciting news) but I really haven't updated any of my online social networking sites since.

SOOO much has happened. I'm sorry for keeping everyone in the dark.

so here's to catching you up.

My mission goals are somewhat on the back burner. you can thank my boyfriend Christian for that. not that he told me not to go (not directly at least) but I've got other things on my mind at the moment.

Christian Mears and I started hanging out a lot about two weeks into January. our ward would play basketball Monday nights after F.H.E., and that was the first time I'd ever really talked to him. aside from hellos at Church. we quickly realized how well we got along and became very good friends. we both like a lot of the same nerdy things.

bikes
Anime cartoons
dungeons and dragons

camping and things of the like

i like to bake, he likes to eat baked goods. He is entertained when I'm being a super weirdo, or "feisty" as Desi and he like to call it. we'd long board together, lay out and watch the stars while telling "scary stories", and stay up all hours of the night most nights.

it wasn't too long before we realised we were a pretty good match and maybe we should try being a little more than friends.

Desi saw it before I did though. In fact EVERYONE saw it before me.

I was in a mode. Mission mode. I was sure I wasn't going to meet someone and so I wasn't even looking. and when I did think i might like him more than I liked my other friends I told myself "Alex, come on. not every encounter has to be a romantic one. you can just like christian because you are such good friends. maybe you're blowing it out of proportion".

I've got an all or nothing approach when it comes to my feelings for someone. I don't want to toy with the idea of a crush unless I'm sure it's worth the stress. because crushes are stressful if your name is Alex Freeman. all of the sudden you have to wonder about where they stand in the matter. you have to try to figure out what flirting means and you have do it no matter how cheesy you feel doing it, mostly because Desi makes you.

do i hold his hand? what are the rules for that? should i be straight out? play it cool?

and so I did all of that stressing for all of march until the 24th when we were official.

and Now we spend all of our time together. that's not an exaggeration. if he's not working and we're both awake, we are together.

if i had a picture to post I would, but Christian hates to be photographed and sabotages all of my attempts. I am just gonna have to be more sneaky about it I suppose.

I'm gonna sign off. Christian is heading over and we're gonna go play some D&D. haha