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December 14, 2005
All wound up! 
photo by Amy Goodman
Since Sweetie is sick, I picked up chinese food last night. I've been on this, umm, quest, to check out little divey chinese places, and there is always this enduring hope that one of these places is going to have great food. Sadly, sometimes these places have good items, but...
So last night, I went to the neighborhood chinese fast food chain. It was much cheaper than any of our neighborhood places, but part of that has to be that there are less crunchy things like crab puffs and pot stickers, and, I think we just plain got less food. Everything we got was a little sweet, but otherwise, it was on par with what we get from our neighborhood joints. How thoroughly disappointing.
Today is the last day of the work food drive. Our local food bank is very very low, and so this morning, when I should have been getting ready for work, I was going through our cupboards. I ended up assembling 2 full grocery bags and then it was obvious that I wasn't going to be taking the bus. So, I took the scooter.
Getting two full grocery bags into the scooter was no big deal at all. I put about 3/4 of a bag under the seat, and about 1/2 a bag into the little box on back, and the other partial bags, I captured with a motorcycle bungy net and strapped down to the seat.
I hadn't ridden the scoot since Friday, so I was all giddy. Other than hitting a patch of ice, it was big fun.
So, how do you keep warm on a scoot when it's 28 degrees outside? Well, um, part of you has to be resigned to be cold. I should have worn long underwear under my dress pants, as well as knee high wool socks and my boots. But I still would have been cold.
My top half was closer to toasty though. I wore my Corazzo hoodie. On my hands, I had my special wrist-length fingerless gloves* under a pair of driving gloves with thinsulate. On my head and neck, I wore my silver scooter scarf over a turtle fur balaclava**.
The special wrist-length fingerless gloves* are the best purchase I've ever made for $1.57. I saw them at G8dwill, and I thought of Jonathan.
At the slug velo fall colors ride, he was wearing a cool pair of striped arm-warmers... which had started out being socks with a couple strategic holes cut in them. So, because I'm obsessed with wool, and knee-high socks, I look at the socks at g8dwill, and there are toe socks. Dude! For $1.57!
I got them home, cut the tips off the big toes, slit the little toes, eh voila!—the cheapest fastest special wrist-length fingerless gloves EVAR!. And while they are 100% acrylic or nylon or some such, they are make a huge difference in how my arms feel. I can't wait to get my wool gloves done, now!
*made from toe socks
** which isn't a balaclava at all, because a balaclava (aka ski mask) covers the nose and mouth, but still
Posted at December 14, 2005
Comments
Very cool socks/arm warmers VJ! I'll have to try that when I get back into town.
Posted by: Jonathan at December 15, 2005 9:09 AM
I LOOOOVE these socks! I want some!
Posted by: Misty at December 15, 2005 10:26 AM