"Everyone Loves an Adventure."

Sometimes God/Karma/Fate/whatever you believe in, picks a day to lay it all on. Not to break you down after a good week. Not to throw you back to rock bottom. But to show you how strong you really are, and how much you can get through with a smile. Today was one of those days for me.

Today seemed like a chill day, it's been raining since the early morning, and my knee was hurting like hell from the truck thing so I figured I'd just kick back in the apartment for the day and go to dinner with my friends at 4. About 2pm I remember I have to take my rental books back. Still, this isn't like I'm fighting a dragon here. Hop on my bike, head to the bookstore, but on the way my phone magically jumps out of my pocket and right into the gutter. It's been raining all day. Still is raining. Phone's fried. Can't get it to turn on. This wouldn't be terrible if I would have ordered a new phone last night, like I planned. Or if I didn't have important texts on there fully detailing this weeks schedule. "Can't get any worse," I just shrugged it off and headed home. My best friend offers to take me to the Verizon store at 4:30 so I can get a phone, I tell him that I have dinner at 4 and ask if we can go a little later, no dice.. 3:45 rolls around so I'm getting ready to head out to Applebees for dinner. I head across campus and show up to what I thought was Applebees at 4, turns out it's a Chili's. I ask around and one girl tells me the nearest Applebees is about 3 miles away. Okay, this wouldn't be a problem if my knee wasn't trashed. Or if my handlebars actually stayed on.  (If I get a new phone tonight I'll upload a picture of my bike to show you.) Both issues from the truck incident. So there I was, hauling ass on my bike, hands gripping the frame to try to steer. Doesn't work so well. Then I ran up to some construction, had to take a shortcut and that shortcut ran me over rough terrain. With no handlebars to grab on to. Great. Fell twice. Got mud on my leather jacket. But eventually got to Applebees. VICTORY!! It's now 4:20. I stroll in like a movie hero, fresh from saving the world. Ask if my party is there. No luck. They wouldn't eat in 20 minutes right? Just then my phone turns on and vibrates, almost to taunt me. It opens only to a message from my friend explaining that dinner is at 4pm on Sunday. Today is not Sunday. I can't get out of that message or go to a different screen. Still taunting. I also can't call my friend to tell him that the dinner isn't happening and we could in fact go get a phone. Or call my other friends to explain this series of unfortunate events I just endured. Now I'm sitting here laughing because of how ridiculous this all is..

Stay strong,
-T