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More Walking Adventures + IKEA + Oxy Clean + Magic Sponge

I, Summer Fox and King walked to Taco Bell for dinner. Before we speak of irony, I had a quesadilla without the cheese. We then walked to Walgreen's. Because Summer was listening to music and walking with her head down, she had to be snatched from the street as a car was coming. Why, sure, I need to worry!
We were back for a while before I realized neither direction had been any trouble at all. Before it wasn't hard, but I did get winded, and I was extremely unmotivated to bother.

Last night, I decided to make a lightning run to Hobby Lobby to get some different watercolors. I thought the store was closing at eight, I forgot HL stays open until 9PM through the holidays, and I made a beeline. I'd ready walked to and from there earlier in the day. I was there in less than five minutes, and only huffed briefly when I was going uphill.
I'm not to the point where uphill is super easy, but the idea of walking seemed almost dangerous. I was unused to it, and found the intersections daunting (and one ALWAYS has to assume car drivers are not looking and behave accordingly). But now, they're familiar, and so close. I know why I drove them, but now I understand that driving them was habit.

I hope to encourage our city to add more sidewalks and bridge the ones we do have along our main road. For our city to be shopped locally, we are going to have to make it easier and safer to get there by foot. The city's already disposed to sidewalks, but haven't yet seen the light on getting more between the our city boundary and city hall southbound and city hall and the next major road northbound. It would make our community so much nicer and I believe we'd get more stores at our largest intersection because traffic would stop whizzing by.
If we had our own shuttle service from city hall to the HEB (which is THE grocery store chain here, and far better than Wal-Mart for quality of produce), we'd be made, and still more of our tax dollars would stay in our city. A shuttle would be a must because a highway is really not safe to walk under.
Failing that, a good local produce stand. I'd LOVE that. We have a seasonal Farmer's Market, but it is puny. Melons, tomatoes, red potatoes, onions, apples, strawberries. No bread, cheese, plants or other veg and fruit. Alameda's weekly Farmer's Market and Corner Produce spoiled me terribly.

Now to IKEA. That shit is great. I mean my kitchen cabinet fronts. I got a front called Stat white. My darling Fox, who'd been given Copics to add yet another layer of color to a Stuart Little Roadster (with a windup roadster in the front seat), decided to color one larger corner of a wall cabinet a deep blue. He was through, too: he swopped color on the knob, too.
Yes, yes, the Oxy Clean man shouts. The sun comes up in the east, too. Right, right. But Oxy Clean WORKS, dammit. Oxy Clean and a microfiber chamois did a lot to remove the marker. Then, I brought in the Big Fucking Gun: a magic sponge Walgreen's style, yostupidfresh. The Magic Sponge (because I am a clown, I keep wanting to say "Magic Spooge" and" Green Balls") took the rest off in less than two minutes.
There you go: dorktastic commercials, excellent products.
Copics are good, too. Just not on my cabinet doors.