This is an old old song by Robert Palmer, way before Addicted to love about some bombass girl named Julia. i have loved this song ever since i first heard it and hope that one day, someone thinks of me like this:

Hey, hey Julia, you're acting so peculiar
I know I'd never fool you in a million years
A horn section you resemble and your figure makes me tremble
And I sure would like to handle what's between your ears
You're a temptation to a man
I could not resist you and I won't if I can
You're so unexpected and whatever you injected made me feel how I felt when I sang

Hey, hey Julia you're acting so peculiar
I know I'd never fool you in a million years
You're a strain on my eyeses** and you're full of surprises
Love materializes soon as you come near.
There's a sensation you create,
Robs me of my sleep and I've forgotten the date
My head started spinning soon as you started singing
And like a fish I just rose to the bait.

Hey, hey Julia with your crazy sense of humor
You turn fact into rumor soon as you come near
A horn section you resemble and your figure makes me tremble
And I sure would like to handle what's between your ears
You're a temptation to a man
I could not resist you and I won't if I can.
You're so unexpected and whatever you injected made me feel how I felt when I sang
Julia, you're a danger just like giving sweets to strangers
And I think it's time I took you in hand.

**and he says "eyeses"!! i love it. you know i say "pantses" "jeanses" "soapses" so this excites me to no end. he really should know me.

One of the things that i've missed from my days in AZ is the lowrider bike culture. Primarily a Latino craft, it's not that prevalent in New Orleans, although i admit that i'm not ingrained in the bike culture here, so I could be totally wrong, because there is a thriving bike culture here despite how bike UN-friendly the streets are here. NOLA has so far to go on this tip. And NOLA is really a great place that could be totally bike-sessible b/c so many peeps are 'hood centric, that riding a bike 'round your own self-contained hood really makes sense.

Today at one of me and mr lizn't's (yes, grammarians all over are freaking out at that) food celebrations, we hit up Juan's Flying Burrito on Magazine St, and what do we see, but this lowrider bike of beauty. Luckily, the owner and builder of the bike comes out, and i am able to grab an on-the-spot interview with him. He hand built the bike, and I was so bike-struck, that I couldn't think of all the questions I should have asked him, like if he does this for others, or if this is just his personal hobby.

At any rate, hit up Juan's, especially now, when the weather is nice enough to sit outside, have a yummy quesadilla, and give your boy Angus props on his ride. Because my little phone cam pics do not do the bike justice at all. (one day, a google Android phone will be mine)

[caption id="attachment_303" align="alignnone" width="263" caption="Angus and his Lowrider bike"][/caption]

[caption id="attachment_297" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Hand built low rider bike by Angus, NOLA"][/caption]

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I had a very interesting session today, I talked about my trip to SD, and about my friend who's going through this thing that was kind of like what i was going through on 2006, being with someone she knows who is not the one for her, while the one she wants to be with is still in her life. only she's married and has 2 kids.

my therapist brought this to my attention - she settled. as much as i put everyone through that year, as much as i dug the e-ring i had from Mr. Thing, and even though i've made some really quite bad choices in dating people in my past, i Did Not Settle. I knew in my....somewhere that they were not the ones for me.

i've found the one I want to be with. if we get to that point, I'll marry him knowing that he is The One. My friend admitted that she married her husband knowing that he was not the one.
And i remember that it was her brother that first ever told me never to settle. i wish he had told her that.

Whatever happens, even though I have to go through this incredibly hard thing this year, I know that it's for the real thing. And for someone who thought she could never be choosy about who she dated, i actually held out and in the end, did whatever it took to be with the person who is incredibly right for me.