Sh!ma

The Day my Bike's Back Wheel Got Stollen

I bought my Supercycle Classic Schwinn Cruiser 26” Comfort Women’s bike about 3 years ago at the Canadian Tire by the IKEA in North York. I remember going into the store looking for a Canadian flag and coming out with a beautiful bike instead! I called my friend to see if he could pick me and my new bike up (because any good suburbanite knows that no one in their right mind rides a bike on suburban streets). While I waited for him, I rode my bike around in circles in the parking lot. I was a kid again.

I didn’t use my bike much until I moved downtown in the spring of that year. I paid a bit too much for a lock, bought a pretty helmet and a basket to match. I was set for the mean streets of Toronto. For the next 2.5 years I would ride my bike occasionally. But I loved it none the less.

At the start of summer 2009, I decided that by the Fall I would give my bike to my niece. She is almost as tall as me now and while I love my bike, it wasn’t very practical for me any more. I need a lighter bike that I can lift and carry if/when needed.

Ironically, I used my bike the most this summer. In August, one thing led to another and I hardly touched my bike. I had locked it outside and would occasionally take a peek at it to make sure it was doing okay. Then we went away for a week to Edmonton and while I was having a blast in the west, someone was stealing my back wheel. Or so I think. I’m actually not certain when they stole my back wheel but it was some time in August.

I took my poor bike to a bicycle shop on Monday to get it fixed, and they quoted me $100! I love my bike, and I wanted my niece to also get to use my bike, so I told them to go ahead and do it. The turn around time would be 3 days! This gave me some time to think things over. When I called to make sure they would use a white tire, they told me that there was no way they could do that because it would be hard/impossible to find. I couldn’t imagine riding a bike with mismatched wheels and I wasn’t going to have any niece of mine have to do that either. So I told them not to go on.

sigh

And so here I am today. I need to find the white wheel for my bike. It looks like Canadian Tire is the only store that has the rights to manufacture and sell Schwinn bikes. So I have to call them and see if they can order the parts for me.

I didn’t think loosing a back wheel would make me so sad.

get up, go to work, come home, and go to bed

And then there are days* when I come home lie on the ground of our living room and cry for a very long time for no apparent reason. Hormones are just so strange. Or I’m just one f—-ed-up individual. I can’t say.

*I over exagerated. I’ve never done that before. But after my crazy pain day yesterday it just seemed like the right thing to do.

Up and Down

What a roller coaster of a week it has been. I’ll know on Monday/Tuesday if I was defeated by the monster of a proposal. fuck.

So Long, Farewell Auf Weidersehen Good-Bye

This last weekend four special people all moved away and I’m starting to miss them. First there is Roshi who has gone away to study at the University of Waterloo! Then there is Ali+Ailson+Renee, who moved to a new house in Barrie. Karate is definetly not going to be the same. Whose butt will I slap in Karate? No ones! That’s who. BLAHHHH….

And then there were two

When I finally got home tonight, I noticed that one of the fishies died while I was away today. We never had a chance to name her let alone to bond. I’m saddened by the loss of yet another goldfish.

I hope the two other ones I got will make it to New Years.

Hello I have a lemon, his name is Faulty

1 failure to detect any thing plugged into a USB port
3.5 hours on the phone
3 apple care people
1 super apple care person
1 failure to detect a hard drive
= a trip for Faulty to the computer hospital on the date of his purchase exactly 3 years ago… and one moment of breakdown for Shima, who will be without a computer for 5-6 business days. sigh.

(p.s I wasn’t just feeling like crying, I was crying on the phone with the apple care person.. why does Faulty have to be so broken all the time?)

Faulty has a Life Threatening Disease and I Fear for his Death.

Faulty, my 12” iBook G4 (circa 2004), is feeling quite sick. He has been complaining about not being able to find his software for about three weeks now. I thought I had gotten it fixed but he’s complaining again and I think it is time to take him into the Doctor’s at the Yorkdale Apple Store.

I got up this morning and I remembered that I should make a reservation. What I should have done was made a reservation late last night, but I didn’t occur to me until this morning though. So I can’t take Faulty in till 12:40 today, and I’m not sure what the doctors will tell me. I’m especially worried because his warranty is due to finish on January 13th 2007, which leaves me very little wiggling room.

So excuse me for the lack of posts, Faulty may be incarcerated today… or not… but he is very very sick, so let’s all cross our fingers and hope that he will come out alive and well from his latest operation!

By the way, Happy New Year. My New Years Resolution is to eat less white bread. What is yours?