Mighty Casey falls down

And on a sad but scary coincidental note, 2 players on the boy's softball team dislocated their left shoulder on the same play, on different bases without touching each other. 2 ambulances had to come to the field to get them and 2 grown men could be heard shrieking in the emergency room that night. And yesterday 2 guys in matching slings with matching beers watched the game and made jokes about it on every play.

Grocery shopping is for losers...like me

Everytime I go lately I get mad and frustrated, leading me to believe that I have very little patience and will soon become a hermit living off canned goods and boxed processed foods, or that everyone else besides me who goes grocery shopping is an idiot. I like the latter idea. I stopped by Albertson's last night already tired and crabby as I keep getting headaches due to needing new glasses. It was crowded at 9pm but I quickly ran around and got the few things I needed. I returned to my car to realize I had been blocked in by a huge, oldschool style motorhome, that while it still had the engine running, was not moving. I honked hoping someone inside would realize that I couldn't get out and they needed to move. After about 1.5 minutes a lady got out and scurried around the front of the motorhome. My situation did not look promising. Another minute later and I see her walking a cart over toward my car, apparently that had been obstructing their path, hence the 2-3 minute delay of debating these rednecks must have had to do to discuss the solution. Mine would have been to barrel down and knock the cart outta the way. Anyway, I sat in my car for another minute waiting for something to happen, finally realizing that the lady was standing next to my window waving and motioning at the cart, as if I were the idiot and couldn't figure out what the problem was. Finally after I acknowledged her she got back in the motorhome and they slowly, very slowly, edged forward a little. Not enough for me to back out for another 2 minutes, seeing as their maximum speed is less than half a mile an hour in said vehicle. Needless to say I tore outta their rather angry and pissed at sitting in my car for 5-6 unnecessary minutes when I could have been doing more important things like watching the first 30 minutes of The Bachelor.

I am almost a quarter of a century

As my best friend pointed out last night, we have been friends for 14 yrs. That is more than half of how old we are. Trippy. She also wanted to impress me with her fraction skills by deducting that I only lived in the same vicinity for 1/7 of our friendship. She has a bit too much freetime apparently as living in the vicinity of the boonies is starting to affect her. And she is a philosophy major with no job. Maybe that too.

So I am 24 today. And I have a wish list on amazon for venusapollo@aol.com. Although I am pretty sure that myself and 2-3 of my other personalities are the only people driving the number up on my counter it doesn't hurt to admit I like presents. And seeing as how my number of family and friends are quite small I could use a bit of spoiling.

I feel as if someone should buy me a big present with my 22nd bday inside so I can gain back the last 2 years I have wasted by not progressing much in the terms of career/school. Granted I make more and live alone and have a beautiful place now...at this rate I am going to be 28 or something by the time I finish my degree and thats assuming I take a ton of night classes and go back soon. What is the secret ingredient I am lacking to get my butt in gear. Can someone add that to my amazon wish list? OR better yet send it to me soon!

And we shall call this place Shang-ri-la

Well almost perfect now that I am actually moved in.
I have come to realize that moving is not fun. In fact it very well may be the opposite of fun. I hired movers to handle things, but then found out they won't move tvs or stereos or computers or anything that isnt sealed in a box or furniture. Which left me and my parents, who had driven up from Yosemite to help a little, with a ton of leftover crap that took another 4-5 loads by car/truck.
So on the other down side, yes there was more than one...I lost my check card in the unloading process(2nd time in 3 months(do they make leashes for check cards?) and still do not have a working home phone since Friday when it was supposed to be working. In the 4 times I have moved and set up a phone line, every time SBC has had to come out to fiddle with the inside jacks, even though 7-10 days previously the tennant before me had a working line. Somehow in that vacant period the apartment went rampant and gnawed through the jack wiring to ensure that I pay $160 to the SBC thieves. This time the complex is reimbursing me at least.
On the good side, yes I admit there is one, it is very quiet there concering neighbors and residents. There is a bit of traffic that is semi-loud but I am getting used to it already. It appears there are no children or loud obnoxious partying types anywhere near me. I also have my own washer and dryer, huge closets and air conditioning. There is also basketball courts, a huge swimming pool, jacuzzi and BBQ area and a fitness center. I am very thrilled with the location and feel or "aura" as new agers would call it so far. You could almost say I've moved on up to the east side. Except it is the west side and it isn't a high rise apartment, nor is it located in the sky.