Heat butter in a large saucepan over medium heat.Add pasta and boil for about 7-8 minutes. Fill a large pot with water and bring to a rolling boil.If (when) you make this, toast to public transportation, because that’s where I’ll be. No, it’s not the healthiest meal in the entire world, but it’s perfect for when you need a live-for-the-moment kind of dinner, and we all need those sometimes. I can’t make it right now as I’m still somewhat laid up with the back sprain, but I can tell you about it, and you can make it. Not an “entire pizza and three bags of Pirate Booty” kind of indulgence, but a “remember to eat the things you love” kind. And when I feel fortunate, I indulge a little bit. I am either incredibly fortunate, or I’m in a real-life version of Final Destination. I’m going to go with fortunate. I came away with a sprained back, twisted shoulder, bumps and bruises galore, and some seriously disgusting-looking road rash, but there’s really no better outcome when car meets human being head on. The important part? I am alive and I am, for the most part, okay. A policeman delivering my bicycle to my apartment and trying to explain what had happened to poor Nor. The rest is your standard accident aftermath. I did land on my head, and thankfully, as always, I was wearing my helmet. Screeching brakes, a last-ditch frantic attempt to steer away from the car in order to minimize the impact, and then the painful inevitability of being tossed like a rag doll onto the hood, then off the side of the car, doing everything one can possibly do within milliseconds to try not to land on one’s head. Like the accident I’d just been in, it happened incredibly fast. Late last week, riding home from work, I was struck by a car pulling out of a driveway. The downside of two wheels and one’s own body is that no matter how powerful you might feel, you’re no match for several tons of steel. I love starting my workday knowing I’ve already traveled 20+ miles on just two wheels and my own body, and (maybe most of all) I love the $5 a day I’m saving on tolls. I love the extra time outdoors, and seeing foxes and rabbits bounding happily through the grass instead of crumpled on the side of the road, as I usually see them. I’m so grateful to be alive, and to be (relatively) okay.ĭue to the aforementioned car accident, I’ve been without a vehicle, and have tried to make lemons out of lemonade by using my carless state as an excuse to ride my bike more. Just ten short days later, I’m going to tell you again. Was it only three posts ago that I told you all how grateful I was to be alive after an incredibly scary car accident?
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