Life as I know it

So, I have developed a great fondness for bike riding in these past few weeks. It has been very surprising to discover how many strange and adventuresome things one can discover in one's own neighborhood. Today, for example, I realized that I have a most unnatural fascination with unfinished houses. I was riding through some new developments which surround our subdivision, and there were a number of houses just sitting there, empty and incomplete. A great and irresistible force drew me to the houses. I think it has something to do with my dad, I think, because when we lived in Omaha and our subdivision was new, we used to do the same thing every chance we got. So I had a grand old time this morning, exploring houses that were in various stages of being built. I think my favorite were the ones that didn't have the drywall up yet. It was like a see through map of the house, a much better way to see how things fit together than after the walls were up. It was fun trying to guess which room would be the kitchen, or the living room, or the bathroom (those were the easiest to guess). I think, actually, a lot of the appeal comes from the fact that you're doing something just a little bit edgy, because you know if anyone found you there they wouldn't like it. It makes it exciting. Kind of sad, that my life has been reduced to this...oh well. Also, I was riding past the new developments and I stumbled onto a very old neighborhood, the kind that your grandparents might live in, where large trees hang over and shade the road and people still own lawn gnomes. The streets had names like Dunkirk and Kilrenny and there was even a Bonnie Sean Drive. It was like little Ireland in the heart of Houston. All the houses there had so much character, some had rows of arches along the front and some were tall with columns. Some were totally overgrown in the front with a riot of vegetation so that the lawn was completely swallowed up. Okay, looking at what I wrote, it actually looks pretty darn boring. Hmmm...time to reevaluate the sad direction my life seems to have taken...