FallingLEAVes of Sunshine

For the last hour or so, I've been revamping my blog: new template, new layout, new link added, and pictures. You can blame a) the late hour, b) the lack of sleep, c) the fact that today was the first (unofficial) Dodger game of the year, d) which, they lost, or e) my obsession with Russell Martin. Apparently, I am addicted! This will be my 20th blog for this month. I was contemplating whether or not to write another blog entry for today. Well, if no one else is going to keep up with their blogging, I might as well. Another new thing that was added awhile back was a counter. I was looking at it and found out how to see where some people are reading my blog from. I have international visits! How cool is that? There was one from the UK, China, India... just to name a few. It just gives the location... sometimes, not all the time. No other information other than that. After reading "The Cubicle Next Door," I was curious about how many people actual visit my blog. I'm qui...

Do you know what that means? I wish I had a picture of this particular cone, so you'd know what I mean. The one I have posted is very similar, if not the one I'm looking for. Oh yeah, what does it mean? LoL. I got distracted. You'll see. This afternoon, about 6:30, I was driving down Riverside Drive (towards the LA church, for those of you who are familiar with my daily routine). As I am driving under the 5 freeway overpass(?), I notice a very familiar looking road sign sitting on a cone. Why is it familiar? It comes out whenever there's a Dodger game. And living as close as I do to Dodger Stadium, it's a VERY familiar sighting. According to Google maps, I live 2.7 miles away from Dodger Stadium. 2.4 or 2.1 according to Expedia. So... let's just say I live an average of 2.4 miles from it. The directions they gave me is the way I take to go to Chinatown. For Dodger Stadium, I'd go the other direction. Don't know which one has less traffic though. Why? Wel...

Before I go... Congratulations to Nomar and Mia! Their twins arrived "healthy and over five pounds" on Tuesday! Double Play: Nomar Garciaparra and Mia Hamm Have Twins Nomar, Mia Hamm have twin girls The Associated Press LOS ANGELES -- Former soccer star Mia Hamm, wife of Dodgers first baseman Nomar Garciaparra, has delivered twin girls. "Both are healthy and over five pounds," Dodgers spokesman Josh Rawitch said, adding the births took place late Tuesday in the Los Angeles area. Rawitch said Garciaparra flew from Florida to witness the births, but was in the air when the babies were born. "He was on a speaker phone with the delivery room speaking with Mia during the births," Rawitch said. Garciaparra went straight to the hospital upon arriving in Los Angeles to be with his wife. Rawitch said he didn't know when Garciaparra would rejoin the Dodgers, who open a three-game Freeway Series against the Los Angeles Angels on Thursday night at Dodger Stadium. ...

I sat down at the computer at 11:00... looks a time on computer ... It's 1:15? Where did the time go?

.... is the book I spent all night last night reading. It was cute. It's by Siri L. Mitchell. What's it about? Well, let's say it's a romantic comedy book I got at the Lighthouse (our former local Christian retailer) during their store liquidation sale. The Lighthouse in Glendale is no longer there, as of March 16. Their lease was up and they weren't renewing it, so they have officially closed their doors. A sad day for us, really. The next nearest Lighthouse is in Pasadena . Which, I don't like their layout as much and I don't travel to Pasadena much unless it's to visit with Angelina, go to the Talbots in Pasadena , or for school. Other than the Lighthouse, we really don't have another other Christian retailers around. ANYWAY, back to the book. It's about this girl, Jackie Pert Harrison, who works for the Air Force Academy. She doesn't like it when she finds out her office space is going to be divided into two cubicles because the new ins...

"You may be provided a provisional credit in five business days and the resolution of the dispute will take 90 calendar days." Two Sundays ago, we went to Coldstone's Creamery after evening service. When I was paying for my order and Nina/Harold's, the credit card machine ran out of receipt roll. So, the cashier replaces it and asks me for my card again so he could swipe it. I asked him if I was going to be charged twice, and he says no, because the first time it ran out of paper and wouldn't have gone through. Now, a voice in the back of my head said I should've asked him to double-check. I have worked with the same type of credit card machines at my aunt's restaurant and whenever the receipt roll ran out in the middle of a transaction, I had to void the said transaction and start a new one. Lo and behold, almost a week later, I check my account online and voila! I was charged twice! Now, instead of calling Coldstone's and dealing with them, I just e-...

...before they fall? from a tree?

Due to a Housing Authority Inspection scheduled for Tuesday, April 3rd, my parents want my room to be cleaned up. Since I've been home, I have been attempting to find some semblance of order. Right now I am typing this because I have realized something... I can't get out of my room! Well, I can ... with a lot of work and effort

It's not a music video of the song by the Newsboys, but a mash-up... sort of. If my understanding of a mash-up is right, this is one. It's basically the song put with video and still images. How they got some video images with Bryan in it, I'm not sure. It certainly wasn't Jody or Paul. Bryan has a very distinct way of playing the guitar. I was looking at the video and saw it ... and i was like ... heyyy that's Bryan! It's funny cuz the video has clips from the Thrive DVD and the Shine DVD, basically their performances at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and One Night in Pennsylvania. It also incorporates recent pictures they have up at their website. Quite interesting that even though there's only four members left (Pete, Paul, Jeff, and Duncan)... the video also shows three former members (Phil, Bryan, and Jody). What's funnier is I'll see the video clip and know which performance it's from and even what's going on. They also have some image...

This morning, I was paying for my parking permit for school today and I noticed the car parked in the space next to the machine ... the new machines give you skinny (vertical) strips, with blue on the sides. You're supposed to put those on your dashboard so the PCC cadets know you paid to park in the parking structure. If you don't have a parking pass hanging in your car. The car parked right NEXT to where you buy your daily permits had a square red parking slip ... from March of 1997. That's practically ten years! That is ten years! First of all... who's dumb enough to try to pass off a red square parking slip when the new slips are rectangular and blue. Second of all... that's pressing your luck that the cadets aren't checking and are smart enough to notice that you have a parking pass from 10 years ago. They do check! I should know. My parking pass fell off one day and I got a ticket for it! I showed them my parking pass which I paid $64 for. I was not going ...

.... came in today to return something and nearly bit my head off for it! The way she talked to me and treated me, it was like she held me responsible for the jean skirt she bought wrinkling (after she wore and washed it), the shoe that didn't fit, and the other shoe she had to pay $40 to get repaired. If she didn't like our stuff so much, then why does she buy it? I have never had anyone complain so much about our quality, which is usually very good. And I have never had someone be as abrasive as she was. She walked into the store, took the jean skirt out of the bag, and dropped it on my side of the cash wrap. Practically threw the thing at me. Proceeded to do the same with recent, tag, and extra buttons. She says very hostilely what she didn't like about the skirt in a voice loud enough for both my managers to hear (one was in petite, the other up front in missy). My store manager almost stepped in, but she saw that I was handling it well enough on my own. Though I cast f...

Actually, I don't know if I attract losers or just creeps in general. Creep #1: a guy I knew but didn't like very much. He was always socking me in the arm for a greeting. Asked me out online. I said no. Later, I heard he got in trouble for *something* Creep #2: not so much a creep. Just weird. I was walking down the street by my college one day. I walked past this Ford dealership, went two blocks, was crossing a street when this guy called out to me. He asked me if I knew the area because he just moved there and was looking for another place to live. He was currently living with a friend. He goes on to ask me out. I'm surprised and flattered, but cautious and weirded out. After all, he followed me for 2 1/2 blocks. I tell him I generally don't go out with guys I don't know. He says, he understands. Proceeds to give me his name and phone number. Says if I would like to get to know him better to give him a call. I warn him that I'll probably lose his number in my...

Anyone remember the Family Matters episode where Carl is dying to find out what Harriet writes in her diary? So, Harriet plants a fake diary for Carl to find. Which, Carl gets Steve to read it to him. She writes entries about an affair she was having. In the end, Harriet tells Carl about the fake diary and reads him an entry from her real one? Personally, I do keep a journal. And no, I would never want anyone else to read it. So, why do I keep one? Because it's how I vent. It's how I let out my feelings, otherwise they'd be bottled up forever and ever and ever. Where did this come from? I was reading and old journal from my first year in college. It was my spring semester and I was taking a speech class. Like most classes, I sit in the back corner and keep to myself. In this particular class, there were these three guys who sat with me. James, Jimmy, and William. Back then, I had three or four classes depending on what day it was. There was an hour break before my speech cl...

Radio conversation between American ship This is the transcript of an actual radio conversation of a US naval ship with Canadian authorities off the coast of Newfoundland in Oct. 95. ********************************************************* Radio conversation released by the Chief of Naval Operations, 10-10-95. Transcript declassified 21-05-96. Frequency classified. ********************************************************* ship 1: Please divert your course 15 degrees to the North to avoid a collision. ship 2: Recommend you divert YOUR course 15 degrees to the South to avoid a collision. ship 1: This is the Captain of a US Navy ship. I say again, divert YOUR course. ship 2: No. I say again, suggest you divert YOUR course. ship 1. THIS IS THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER USS MISSOURI, WE ARE A LARGE WARSHIP OF THE US NAVY. DIVERT YOUR COURSE NOW! ship 2. This is a Canadian lighthouse. Your call.

Sunday morning ... I preceded to get up late for Sunday school ... trip and fall up the stairs Sunday afternoon ... went to the bank to get cash for lunch ... discovered my debit card was in my other purse Anything else for the weekend?

Just when I thought I was finally going to get to bed... My dad calls me and tells me to take him to the nearest hospital. Nothing serious. He hit his eye earlier today while working on the roof clearing tree branches. So, at 1:30 AM (before time change) he decides it's a good time to go to the hospital. Speaking of the night not being over yet, I hear a cop siren in the not-too-distant. Either I'm tired or my keyboard's not working cuz my spell checker went off on at least five words. So, we get to the hospital, fill out/sign some forms, wait to be taken to a room, the nurse asks some questions, then the doctor asks the same questions, they put a gauze over his eye, write out a prescription, and forty-five minutes after we left the house, we're home again. Now it's 3:41 AM (after the time change) and the night is OVER.

Especially now that I have my class in morning and work in the evening. This seems to be my typical Saturday: library class from 9:00-12:30 (I leave by 8:30 to stop at Starbucks for breakfast), between 12:30-1:00 I'm getting lunch and on my way home. Usually I work at 4:30, so I have to leave by 4:00, to give me thirty minutes instead of fifteen to get to work. That's fifteen minutes of leeway time for traffic (on the freeway and at the parking structure). So usually I have time between 1:00 and 4:00 to do whatever, which usually involves relaxing and taking a shower. EXCEPT for last week when I had to be at work at 2, and this week my boss asked me to come in earlier. So we compromised and I came in at four. Good thing! Because I didn't get off till midnight.The first two hours weren't eventful. But then, these two ladies came in with a return. Jeiza called me over to help them because they wanted to try on some shoes. I lost count of how many pairs of shoes these two ...

Matt White (Dodgers) Billionaire? VERO BEACH, Fla. -- Who's the wealthiest Dodger? Jason Schmidt? Jeff Kent? Frank McCourt? It could be Matt White. Who? White is a 29-year-old left-handed journeyman pitcher in camp on a Minor League contract who's pitched a total of 9 2/3 Major League innings in nine professional seasons and he's sitting on a gold mine. Actually, it's a rock quarry. Four years ago, White bought a 50-acre piece of property in Massachusetts from his ailing Aunt Josephine, who was going into a nursing home. He planned to build a house on the property, but discovered it to be absolutely covered with rock. A geologist determined the property was loaded with mica schist, a slate-like shiny metamorphic stone used for patio decks and other construction. "I never built the house and instead started selling the rock," said White, whose father runs the business. "It turned out to be a blessing in disguise. The geologist said I've got 24 million ...

Now it's the guy's turn! RULES GUYS WISH GIRLS PLAYED BY; [Chicagoland Final Edition] Cheryl Lavin . Chicago Tribune . Chicago , Ill. : Apr 23, 2000 . pg. 14 1. If you think you're fat, you probably are. Don't ask us. 2. Learn to work the toilet seat. If it's up, put it down. 3. Don't cut your hair. Ever. Long hair is always more attractive than short hair. One of the big reasons guys fear getting married is that married women always cut their hair, and by then you're stuck with her. 5. If you ask a question you don't really want an answer to, expect an answer you didn't want to hear. 6. Sometimes, we're not thinking about you. Live with it. 7. Don't ask us what we're thinking about unless you are prepared to discuss topics such as navel lint, the shotgun formation and monster trucks. 8. Sundays equals sports. Period. 9. Beer is as exciting for us as handbags are for you. 10. When we have to go somewhere, absolutel...

I came across this article while reading Single Men are Like Waffles, Single Women Are Like Spaghetti . And hopefully by the end of this semester, I'll know how to enter this book into an online catalog database THE THINGS WOMEN WANT: (IT'S A LONG LIST); [Chicagoland Final Edition] Cheryl Lavin, Tribune Staff Writer. Chicago Tribune. Chicago, Ill.: May 7, 2000. pg. 16 1. Don't ever lie to us; we always find out. 2. If you're in a bad mood, we're going to assume it's our fault. So, tell us what's bothering you. 3. Don't act like a big shot to impress us. It always backfires. 5. Quit complaining about your boss. Find another job. 6. Don't tell us you love us on the first date. We won't believe you. 7. Sunday is usually the only day we can relax. Be flexible about the all-day sports rule. 8. Buy yourself some decent clothes. 10. Pay attention. We like to give clues. "Susie and Bob tried a great new restaurant" means "Why don't you...