soy (E)rica, ciclista anarkist(A)

June ~

2009-06-07T14:09:00.000-07:00

Here I am again. I have endured some horrible things the last few months. Homeless.. fight w. bf.. accusations of things I hadn't done... him being accused of stealing our neighbor's money.. and somehow im still here, blogging, sitting at my moms house..

hes at home, his friend famous had come to visit for the weekend and i went to my moms house.

We got into alot of really physical fights where he hurt me really bad and i ws hurt even emotionally he told me im not worth it, etc.

but i am a good person although he says i'm mean or a slut.etc. or stupid.

i am working now as a house cleaner, getting up to $20/hr.

I'm trying so hard to make a plan I want to move OUT of the crappy apartment I'm in. His friends we share the bathroom ad kitchen with are sooo horrible. messy, blaming me or him for a mess that we didnt make. they don't like me and constantly try to brainwash him into believing everything they say. we think his friend stole the neighbors money, and is trying to blame me or miami. and the girlfriend sky made fun of me, while accusing me, of being the one to steal his $. I had sunburn and she says "i dont know about his girl though, she got real red, like, her ears too, ever her earrings *laugh* everything was red. and i was soooooooo annoyed. i hadnt blamed her or her man, or made fun of her, and if i did i wouldnt be yelling it out. fuck her. i hate this house.

i miss robertito...

Wow.....

2009-01-18T18:56:00.000-08:00

Hey, I haven't blogged in a while, AS USUAL!

So, I started COLLEGE! in august, HUNTER COLLEGE!

I was riding my bike, all day, bored, when I decided to check out whats up in tompkins Sq. PARK!

When I sat down, a familiar face came up and said, "Erica?" .. I replied with, "Toasty? WHAT R U DOING HERE?!?" He said, "WHAT R U DOING HERE!?, I live here." Well, Toasty left L.I. and decided to stay in this park to live here. He went from a hole to an apartment on long island to a park in the lower east side..

I started hanging out in the park everyday before, between, and after classes.

drinking, smoking, drinking, smoking, and overall wasting time.

after every few beers, the crusties would draw up signs on cardboard and go spanging.. "spare-changing"

I don't ask for money.

But I have went with them, and kept 'em company.

I wish I had taken more pictures..

Either way, I had been hanging out in this park when a photographer rides by real fast on a skateboard.. toasty puts out his foot, and this guy falls!

then a man by the name of Legend comes by and begins to ask "why did you do that?" he said the photographer had asked permission, he was scolding him for what he did. He had muscles, he was fearless, he was scary. We became good friends.

The next day Toasty said he'd meet me at 3pm. He didn't show up, I waited until 4:15 when I got bored, nobody was around this day, it was a thursday. I went to leave the park when I saw Legend. I waved but he didn't acknowledge me. Then I figured, eh, whatever, don't say hi. He comes over like, YO! I was talking, why didn't you come over and give me a hug? I'm like, i don't know, you looked busy, i dont wanna be annoying. We go for a walk. We're standing there talking, when his friend shadow walks up. I told them I had to go to washington mutual bank, it's a few blocks up from tompkins. They said they'd escort me there. We ended up smoking an L on somebody's front steps.. Then went to the bank. Then they asked me to go to union square park.

this is where my life falls apart.

I went to this park, it was so full of people. there were people wearing headphones, and dancing.. "silent rave" they call it. I met a bunch of people. Shadow introduced me to his little brother 'red' and walked me halfway to penn station.

2 days passed and no call from shadow, he had my hoodie and i had his hat, So i ventured out to union sq. park to see whats up. I saw his brother there, and he said he was in jail. I started to hang out with his brother, and I met more people. I drank so much whiskey in that park, and smoked so much damn sticky green you don't know... so after school and between classes i'd go to union sq. and if nothings going on hit up tompkys. I was having fun everyday..

Eventually I met my boyfriend who's name is miami, and we started dating, but 2 days later (unbeknownst to me) he went to jail and 40 days later he got out. I have a problem when I get too drunk I lose my inhibitions totally.. I kissed somebody I wouldn't have in better judgement.

OOPS! Now that we are together some people in union square are making up rumors about me that I did all this crazy shit like have a threesome in tompkins sq. park ..get this.. IN THE BROAD DAYLIGHT! with two people we all know. Which I did not, and other people are joking around saying, I fucked her first, no i did, when neither of them, i had sex with. that bothers me, alot. because now people think im some slut, and my boyfriend gets shit for it. and when I found out and was waiting for him to come out of jail, people told me, he is a man whore, dont date him, etc. and i didnt let that stop me, i got to know, HIM!!! And he is the best thing thats happened to me, I've had many boyfriends, many friends, many acquaintances, nobody ever ever ever treated me the way he does.

He is the only person who gives me the respect I deserve.

Next time I go to union square I might be punching some people in the face.

And other notes, I'm doing good making money, the old "buying books" and re-selling them to strand's... Oh yeah... But anyway me and Miami are doing alright.

Noticias..

2008-05-02T16:12:00.000-07:00

Hola.. Today I have decided to write in this blog again! :] Voy a estudiar en la ciudad de Nueva York en the fall.. I was accepted to Hunter College in NYC and I'm going! I'm very excited andhave to go take a math placement test on the 14th. I'm getting a laptop for my schoolwork.. that will be an upgrade from this piece of shit desktop computer.. I suppose i'll give this one to my little sister.. My messenger bag is still in the works. I need to get my hands on some ballistic nylon, which is very expensive. Once I get some of that, I'll put the bag together.. It'll have a laptop compartment in front of the padding on the back.. a removeable divider.. a few zipper pockets inside, many secret pockets.. some secret pocket inside the strap.. alot of very cool stuff.. a floating liner, it'll have a nice clean look to it. My friend mike said he'd cut out his chrome logo off his bag and put it on mine jajajajaja! it's erikita's own bag. it will be the greatest bag ever! i think i might make a really large skull patch to put on it.. other news, i made an awesome painting of a sugar skull! i like it so much, i might tweak it a bit and get it as a tattoo!!!! :) thats all that's new today.. Anthony's in the bahamas... i'm pretty bored but it's alright cuze i have some work to do anyway, Sunday I am doing a bike ride in a planetarium.. 'spinning' it's called.. and it should be nice, it's for a good cause, for the national art honor society! ok well, adios! !revolucion! !

NEWS!

2008-03-05T10:47:00.000-08:00

Hey there! It's March 4th and I've been very successful with my workout plan! I've been jogging weight training a little, plus my normal cycling so I'm doing pretty good with that. I've also begun this project about 2 months ago making a messenger bag. The first prototype came out very nice but I had a few things to fix. The second came out better, I made some minor tweaks, and made it larger. Now the third one I'm working on the plans now. I just joined bikeforums.net and found a whole bunch of information from other cyclists and bag makers.

I'm doing very well as a DIY seamstress! & lovin' it.

I'll post some pictures of the latest things I've been working on!

WELLYWELLYWELLYWELL

2008-02-14T16:23:00.000-08:00

I decided against staying vegan, I had my run, a good amount of time has gone by. I'm listening to a new album by a band called Rosa. Some nice person from the internet sent it to me :) Well It's Valentine's Day! I'm going on a hot date tomorrow with my boyfriend so I'm finishing up these nice jeans I made they look really nice on me, I'm excited I haven't seen my boy in 1 month. It's not THAT long but long enough to leave me in a funk for the last 3 days feeling a little lonely and missing him, I'm real excited for tomorrow. I even pcked out my clothes, hairstyle, and makeup! I barely even wear makeup lately, I've been just casually picking out what to wear on-the-spot.

Tomorrow should be good, it's nice to be with someone you love.

Alright, it's time to go. Get ready for the revolution, Obama winning the election could set that off. I'm votin for Ron Paul.

and a good movie to watch is The Invasion, and another I saw yesterday is 3:10 to Yuma. GOOD FILMS.

adios muchachos!

erriiicA

2008-01-09T15:20:00.001-08:00

Well, I'm officially eating vegan! Yep, finally.
Tomorrow marks the first day of my exercise regimen, I'm going to run like Rocky did.

I have been very crafty lately, painting, making clothes.. and I'm compiling recipes I hope I'll like, and Soon I'll make them all cute and add them to my cookbook! I saw my boyfriend 2 weeks ago and we adopted a new fancy dwarf hamster, named 8-Ball. Now I have two, they don't get along though, I attempted to let them meet eachother and it ended abruptly. Blood was shed. It was awful... I'd never purposely aubject animals to that kind of stuff, so I decided they're better off in separate cages.

The signs are all around you nigga

2007-11-30T16:45:00.000-08:00

shitty ass jobs & The New World Order!

2007-11-30T16:06:00.000-08:00

Well, good things don't last forever. That applies to my new job. I was fired today, averaging a total of about 30 hours worked there, wasted hours. I should be gettin one fat check this week but too bad they fired me for making too many mistakes on the cash register. It's hard ot use since if you ring something up for the wrong price.. there is no fixing that and u have to call the managers... and anyway I don't want to work anymore anyway fuck that! I'm nobody's slave

so other news! the presidentail election! I watched a debate today and it was the CNN youtube debate.. one citizen asked about the international superhighway and the north american union.. check this out

"It's not a conspiracy theory."

mhm..

Well, what do you think?

Cold ass weather

2007-11-20T12:26:00.000-08:00

Still I'm freezing I'm wearing three hoodies plus a bra and t shirt..... still cold as fuck.

Well, it has been ten days since my last blog, boyfriend is on vacation in California.. probably getting a tattoo on his back. I miss him.

I'm again a contributing citizen to the economy I have a job.. finally. it's about time i do something to get money. I work at a dollar store. not bad..

I still haven;t got batteries for my camera since I had no money to buy them with.. eventually I'll have new batteries. Tomorrow's my first day of work! :)

Well! I'm pretty excited about seeing some cash flow my way so I'm writing up a list of what things I need to buy.

I'll write more here tomorrow.. and something about how and why bicycle riders are saving the planet. :) adios!

weather

2007-11-10T07:11:00.000-08:00

it's really cold out there lately!

I can't even ride without freezing, I need to find gloves and an earband

I'm in debt right now, I have -50 dollars and no steady flow of cash money

My boyfriend didn't come to visit this weekend. I haven't seen him in 2 weeks!!!!!!

I'm sad. :(

finished!

2007-10-25T18:45:00.001-07:00

i FINALLY FINISHED MY REVOLUCION PATCH.

Too Bad I don't have a camera at my disposal;
I'll get a picture up. Also, I have a whole bunch of them left to make:

Oddish patch
An Order from a friend (Secret Patches)
My bike crew patches
cross country patch
icp patch
fish patch
Well thre are others.. but I can;t remember them.

eh.. I have alot of work to do.

If you like anything I've posted and/or would like a patch, E-mail me: erioagrismer@hotmail.com

thanks, bye :)

knobby tires

2007-10-21T08:40:00.000-07:00

I need gloves and an earband for cycling in the winter! and knobby tires.!!!!!

RAIN!

2007-10-19T14:58:00.000-07:00

Yeah! It rained today and still is raining. I haven't had access to the internet in days.... Anyway I've been riding the World. I had my friends tighten the brakes, lube the chain, air in tires, and fix the alignment of the cateye and it's a ridiculously different ride now. My computer (cateye) says my average speed is 27 mph keep in mind i mainly ride on streets with traffic. My highest speed is 65 mph. WOW! I want to take a picture of my bicycle because it's really dirty from riding in the rain but I can't because I don't have a camera. I'll upload pictures of my other bike. Bye.
This is my 24" Cruiser back when it was new.. all stock.

this is my nigga Matt doing trix

My friend Melissa & I on a train :D

Melissa's and My bicycle!

bad luck bike

2007-10-15T16:26:00.000-07:00

so i had an awful day, typed a whole new post, and then blogspot's unavailable so I had to re-type this whole post. >:(

I'll start with yesterday, Yesterday I got to hang out with my boyfriend! We sat around my pals house, ate pizza, then we all went out for pizza again, then we rode a far distance on bikes.. Ended up at my house, we watched the movie 300. Then he took the train home at 7:40. I got to see him Saturday and Sunday! :)

Today, I rode my bike to school as I usually do, I left school and someone stole my fucking quick release skewer off my front wheel. I couldn't ride it obviously. and since my friends work in a bike shop they hooked me up with a new one.

Now I have to lock it up and take the front wheel off and lock that up too, keep the skewer with me all day.

Poor bike..

Patches

2007-10-14T03:18:00.000-07:00

I love painting and creating patches, T-shirts.. ETC. I thought I'd post some up on here. I'm not looking for perfection in my works but they come out nice I think. & People buy them!

- I need new paint brushes.. these stolen ones are only good for so long..

Here's my most favorite one:

Here is a pokeball I made for someone, and an arm band with a red star

More Patches...

I made this pillow for my boyfriend last night

My hat again
RAGE
I made the stencil for this bike fist patch and made about 50 patches with that, this is one :)

My Anti-Nikes

This is my all-time favorite patch that isn't finished yet, I can't think of what else should be on it.. any suggestions?

New Shop

2007-10-14T02:54:00.000-07:00

Yesterday I rode around wasting time until my boyfriends train came in..
I ran around in the woods looking for this secret spot i once knew of.. I found it way long ago.. drank there alot, spraypainted lots of shit.. it's a nice spot deep into the woods.. but i lost it, anyway I found my spot.. and I got him off the train. We walked to the new bike shop. My friends work at Bike Discounters, and they moved the shop so we walked a far far walk all the way there. We relaxed in the back and my friend drove us home later on. We really didn't do much of anything yesterday but that's alright because today is going to be a really long exciting day. We're going to the library to rent Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. He loves that movie. Then I don't know what we'll do, oh my best friend moved to New Jersey and she's coming down today. I'll take pictures today, post 'em tomorrow. adios!

Weather's Getting Cold!

2007-10-13T07:34:00.001-07:00

- YEAAHH! Can't wait to bundle up in layers and go for a long-ass ride on my schwinn!
- I heard crass and conflict are playing a show together in England how sick, I'd love to see that.
- My boyfriend's coming down today so I guess I'll be shreddin til he comes..
- My bike's really dirty :)
Peace!