Happy Independance Day!!

Ah, the insanity. I volunteered to help out at the Freedom run, so yesterday I had to be there at five thirty. In the morning. Which meant I had to wake up an hour beforehand. Especially since I decided to ride my bicycle because I was going straight to the parade afterward and didn't want to try to park my car ten minutes before the parade started. So I was there at five thirty in the morning and helped with registration and then helped remove digital recorders for time. I took my bicycle over to the parade and met up with my friends and their kids to watch the parade. As I sit there and watch all the pageant queens go by, I wonder why they even do it. What is the benefit of doing pageants? If anyone knows a really good reason let me know, because I don't see the intrinsic value. Of course my favorite part of the parade is the cannon at the end. They fire it alot, which is cool, its not as annoying as the sirens. And I like all the old cars, those are really cool.
Then, I had to take my bicycle home because there was not room for it in the car. This would not have been so bad if it hadn't been almost all uphill and at eleven in the morning when it was starting to get really warm. I only rode three and a half miles and it killed me! I am so out of shape. So then I took a four hour nap. I had dinner with my landlord and kids and then went to a barbeque with some other friends and then went to someone's work balcony to watch the fireworks.
It was a pretty good day, but boy was I tired afterward! And I'm starting to wonder if insanity is just some sort of disease I have that I can't escape . . .