I’m tired.

That is all.

There may be a small chance that I have some sort of a crush on Alvin… of the chipmunks.

Saw the squeakquel, reminded me of when I used to watch the cartoons all the time as a kid.

(a day late but) MERRY CHRISTMAS!

This morning, on the 101 north, I was about 8 cars behind (and two lanes over from) an idiot on the freeway. He was driving a dark green modified pickup with what looked like plywood in the back… Going uphill a piece of wood the size of a double bed got kicked up from his truck bed and was sticking straight up. It hadn’t fallen out (yet) but it was sticking straight up, only about 25% of it still in the truck bed, pieces of other wood flying out behind him onto the other cars. Instead of pulling over at this point, to remedy his soon to be road hazard, the idiot speeds up and pulls from lane 4 into lane 3! Further from the shoulder! While I try to decide if I want to hang back or try to pass him quickly before the plywood comes flying out of his truck… it comes loose, hits a few cars, hits the divider, and luckily misses me since I had slowed down during my moment of indecision.

What an idiot. He should have just pulled over and taken care of that as soon as everything came loose earlier.

Several months ago, after graduating, I decided to move from my apartment near school to a more active area in LA.  This seemed like a great idea at the time, but I have to say… moving is a pain! I’ve been moved into my new place for well over a month now and still have so many things in boxes.  It just takes a lot of time and effort to sort through everything and adapt all your belongings to an entirely new space. 

I used some Los Angeles Moving Company to move all my heavy furniture and such, but did most of the boxes myself.  It definitely was a great help to have movers moving even some of the items, but that doesn’t take away from the annoying factor of sorting through everything.  On the night side, though, ever since my Movers (Los Angeles) brought everything in I’ve had a reason to look at each item I own and really evaluate if it is worth keeping, worth donating, or worth selling.  Generally we don’t take the time to go through everything this way, and every few years it becomes much needed.

If you’re moving anytime soon, good luck with the mess!!

Links:

• Moving Company – Los Angeles

got these in an email… some questions that remain unanswered for us all:

• Can you cry under water?
• How important does a person have to be before they are considered assassinated instead of just murdered?
• Why do you have to “put your two cents in”… but it’s only a “penny for your thoughts”? Where’s that extra penny going to?
• Once you’re in heaven, do you get stuck wearing the clothes you were buried in for eternity?
• Why does a round pizza come in a square box?
• What disease did cured ham actually have?
• How is it that we put man on the moon before we figured out it would be a good idea to put wheels on luggage?
• Why is it that people say they “slept like a baby” when babies wake up like every two hours?
• If a deaf person has to go to court, is it still called a hearing?
• Why are you IN a movie, but you’re ON TV?
• Why do people pay to go up tall buildings and then put money in binoculars to look at things on the ground?
• Why do doctors leave the room while you change? They’re going to see you naked anyway.
• Why is “bra” singular and “panties” plural?
• Why do toasters always have a setting that burns the toast to a horrible crisp, which no decent human being would eat?
• If Jimmy cracks corn and no one cares, why is there a stupid song about him?
• Can a hearse carrying a corpse drive in the carpool lane ?
• If the professor on Gilligan’s Island can make a radio out of a coconut, why can’t he fix a hole in a boat?
• Why does Goofy stand erect while Pluto remains on all fours? They’re both dogs!
• If Wile E. Coyote had enough money to buy all that ACME crap, why didn’t he just buy dinner?
• If corn oil is made from corn, and vegetable oil is made from vegetables, what is baby oil made from?
• If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons?
• Do the Alphabet song and Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star have the same tune?
• Why did you just try singing the two songs above?
• Why do they call it an asteroid when it’s outside the hemisphere, but call it a hemorrhoid when it’s in your butt?
• Did you ever notice that when you blow in a dog’s face, he gets mad at you, but when you take him for a car ride, he sticks his head out the window?
• Do you wonder why you read through this in the first place?

The last two mornings my car has been covered in ash when I’ve gone out to leave for work.
The massive Station fire has been burning for a while now. I live about 10 miles southeast of the fire areas and we’ve had favorable winds most of the time, blowing the smoke and ash in the directions away from us. The last couple days though, it seems, over night when the breeze dies down ash settles, all the way where we are.

Even 40-50 miles out from the fire the skies are hazy from the smoke.

Hopefully this can be cleared up soon, I’d like to have an ash free car at some point in the near future.

Here is a view of the fire from my place when it was still relatively small:

Station Fire in the first few days

I always wanted a happy ending… Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it without knowing what’s going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

-Gilda Radner

Whenever I feel it coming on… I know the cure. Chocolate. Yeah, it really is that simple. hah