FallingLEAVes of Sunshine

What should I start with? I better blog before it's Wednesday night and Stacy gets worried. The highlights of today's Dodger victory. First of all, it was a shut-out. Second, they scored in the double-digits and it was a shut-out. They scored six runs in the seventh inning, and ten overall. Ten to zip. Pierre did great today. How many people will quickly forget he hit a triple and three doubles? How quick will they forget? Another highlight? How about when Duncan got hit with the broken bat? Okay, enough about baseball. Well, major league baseball. We played three fly's up at the park yesterday. It was so different using a wooden bat this time around. Afterwards, Daniel and I took a trip to WalMart to get an aluminum bat. Hehe Kevin kept saying "you catch like your husband (Russell Martin)" during the game. We also played Ultimate Frisbee. With all that running around and stuff ... I knew I was going to be feeling it the next day. Well, my body didn't want to ...

... getting frustrated with the guy next to me. We went through the first half of the class without me having to deal with him. THEN we had to do an in class exercise. Let the headache begin. Where do we start? How about how to write the author's name in the title field? I kept telling him, first name, then last. What does he type? Last name, comma, first. I tell him, no, it's "Jane Austen," not "Austen, Jane." We go back and forth on this. I tell him, this isn't the 100 field. It doesn't need to be last name, comma, first. This is the 245 field. It's supposed to be first name, last. Then I have to tell him, you misspelled persuasion, Austen, Austin, and who knows how many other words. At one point, Ken, the t.a. came over and stood behind him. He was telling him what mistakes he was doing, repeating himself several times, just as I do. Me? I was sitting there, with my arms crossed, laughing with Ken, as we were telling him what to do and what...

That seems to be the thing, huh? First, I got called and asked to stay to close. I was supposed to work 2 - 8, but then the closer called out, so I needed to stay. And as I'm going through the parking lot, this lady pulls out around this car and nearly hits me! When I got there, it was just me and Joyce. Julio was supposed to come in, I guess, at 3:30. But he didn't. So, it was just me and Joyce. We couldn't get a break today, I guess. People were still coming in, even as it got closer and closer to closing. Even when I went to close the door, this lady walked in. When she saw I was closing the door, of course she left. I went over the whole store to make sure it was recovered and then took out the trash. WELL while I was going through the fitting room trash baskets, guess what I discovered? Another one with an unknown substance in it, that was pale yellow, and smelled. Yuck! This time I had to throw it out, and it was heavier than I expected. Then after I left ... I was dr...

It's 3 AM and I'm still up. And on top of that ... my family is driving me nuts. There's a trash can full of well, trash, and no one has emptied it for days. WHY? There are ants everywhere, and does anyone do anything about it? Okay, well, not everywhere. Just the bathroom and the living room and the kitchen. Before, they were just on the table, especially if someone left food out. They were all over the sink. Now they're around the fridge, too! There are dirty dishes in the sink. The floor needs to be vacuumed. IS THERE ANYONE ELSE IN THE HOUSE WHO CAN DO ALL OF THIS BESIDES ME???? Seriously. First thing I do tomorrow after I get off work is go to Target and find me the biggest can of ant-killer they've got. Who knows if I'll do the dishes or vacuuming because I have laundry to do, too. As for the trash, I usually leave that up to the boys. Then again, why should I leave it to the boys? THEY NEVER DO ANYTHING BUT SIT ON THEIR LAZY BOTTOMS IN FRONT OF THEIR COMP...

Come on guys, fourth place? That's it? Think about it. How many games has he been a key role in for the Dodgers to win? May 23rd - he batted in 3 runs in the bottom of the first, scored a run, and then batted in another run on a sacrifice fly. That makes up the five runs the Dodgers scored to win the game. May 22nd - he scored the first run after he walked and stole second, then batted the other two runs in when he hit a 2-run homer to make up the three runs the Dodgers scored to win the game. I can't go back further, but I remember another game where Russell had a hand in making the only runs the Dodger scored to win the game in April. You can probably search the archive to find the date. But it's late, and I'm not going to bother. Let's not forget his GRAND SLAM on April 21st in the bottom of the 10th inning. In the LA Times : 5-23 Good signs for the Dodgers include Russell Martin batting with runners on base, Russell Martin dashing around the bases and Russell Ma...

... would've been a good game to watch! Unfortunately I had to close with ... Mariam... grrrr... Not a good night. On top of that, they didn't broadcast it on PRIME as they usually do. Tonight was the one night they broadcast it on KCAL. I like when it's on PRIME because PRIME replays the game the next day. Sure, they cut out innings, but I still get most of the game. And WHAT DID I MISS??? Apparently a lot. Bottom of the first... bases loaded and Russell hits what they call a "double"... yet he clears the bases and ends up at third. But it's still a double. Hmmm. Anyway, three RBIs with one hit ... sweet. Bottom of the fifth... Russell is up again and hits his fourth home run of season ... till the umpires get together and decide it went foul. WHAT? I was just thinking as I drove to work this afternoon... "wouldn't it be neat if Russell hit another home run today?" He was robbed! Well, I couldn't see it during the replay but apparently it we...

... without blogging. Thought I'd try. This afternoon, I went to go pick up food for my brother. I had my window rolled down and smelled smoke. It smelled like a barbecue. The air was a little smoky. But I couldn't see any signs of fire. But on my way back, there it was! It was off the 110, where the 100 north meets the 5 north. Dodgers win! Russell Martin is the man! He scored the first run off Gonzo's single, then batted the other two runs in with his home run! We need to get voting guys. They said Russell is fourth in the all-star voting. FOURTH? Come on! Let's go, Dodgers! We need to get on the ballot and vote for Russell!!!

And not post something today. Oh well. Guess not. LOL I just looked on my computer to see when I work, and I find that my schedule isn't written down there! Oops. Good thing I asked Sherisse at work today and know that I don't go in till Wednesday. The thing that I wanted to post was ... when I went to work today, our mall has specific directions you can go in. Most of the time. Most of the time, the lanes are one way. And there are big yellow arrows on the ground to point you in the direction you're supposed to go. This morning, I was going the direction the arrow was pointing and I see this lady in a SUV headed my way. BUT she was going the wrong way. She looks at me, puts her hands up like "what are you doing" as if I was the one going the wrong direction. She waits for me to make room for her to go, and I wait to see if she realized she went the wrong way. Nope. Since I was the smaller car, I had to concede. Unfortunately, this happens ALL the time. People are...

I just found our cell phone bill for last month. I get 1000 messages and I used 1234. I wish there was a way to track how many messages I use! Lame. What's more lame is I get 5 MB to use, but my phone doesn't connect to the web. Lame. So, the 5mb goes to waste while I overuse my text messages. Too bad I can't get extra texts instead of the MB. Oh well. When I get a new phone, all that will change!

... of my library class starts of with the guy next to me typing in "library of congress search" in the address bar instead of catalog.loc.gov. Makes me wonder how much about surfing the internet does this guy really know. Or just basic computer things like minimizing and maximizing a window. Maybe I should've called my mom. She's already called me ten times. So, in class, we did a couple in class stuff as groups. The first one was to do an authority search. Thankfully, he said I could do it on my computer, so it didn't take long. Then we had to present it to the class. Thankfully we added another person to the group or else I would've done all the work. Then we had to catalog an exercise. Unfortunately, since he was in the middle, he got to do it. You should've heard a very frustrated me. "Space, colon. Colon, not semi-colon. Hit f9. Okay, backspace. You have too many spaces. Capitalize it. Lower case that. Space. Period. Backspace. BACKSPACE!"

And what a day has this been! Seven o'clock shift that went till four; Dodger game that started at 7:10 and went till 10:15 (Dodgers win!) Let's start with the morning. Before I left work yesterday, Tanzania asked me if I'd go in early today. Which is why I was in bed around 10:30 last night. No time for blogging and not much to blog. Just another Monday. Dodgers lost a very painful 4-8 yesterday, Tomko giving up eight runs in the first two innings. Russell didn't play very long. After they put Mike in instead of Russ, I let my brother watch a little of his NBA playoff game. By the time Heroes was over, I was ready for bed. Good thing too, since I had to be at work at seven. So, this morning, I got up, showered, and headed to Starbucks. Sherisse was already there, so she got my drink for me since a line was forming. Meanwhile, I went to the donut place ... Winchell's... for a croissant. When I had pulled into hte parking lot, immediately I noticed the KTLA news crew...

Mothers everywhere received a huge endorsement on Mother's Day from Grady Little, who is in his fourth season as a big league manager. "I think the job of being a mother is tougher than being a manager, probably," Little said. "A lot of times when you're a mother, if you don't do something in the right way sometimes, you don't have to read about it in the paper and hear about it on ESPN." "I've had some pretty good luck on Mother's Day. If you hit a home run, it's a cheap way of getting out of a gift," Ken Griffey Jr. said with a grin. "My mom's real easy. All she wants is a phone call. I think that's all most mothers really care about -- just a phone call from us, letting them know we think about them. She never really asks for anything. But if she did, she'd definitely get it." Ethier, who had a big two-out hit in the eighth inning to catapult the Dodgers past the Reds, said he was going to give his bat ...

Anyway, what I wanted to talk about was ... well... these American holidays are just a bunch of hype to me. Quite unfortunate really. Like today, I think I only saw my mom when I got home around 11. Did I tell her "happy mother's day"? No, because in this house, unfortunately, things like that don't matter. Mother's Day, Father's Day, Fourth of July, Christmas, Thanksgiving, Easter... birthdays... we don't really celebrate anything besides Chinese New Year. In fact ... I don't even remember the last time we did that! Why am I going into all this? I don't want to make anyone feel bad or sorry for me. That's just the way it is. LOL maybe like I was telling Kevin, since I haven't finished updating my journal, my blog is my journal for now. Of course, I can't put everything on here that I would put in my journal. Actually, there's more to this entry, but I had to take it off. It got too personal. Really. This morning in Sunday school, K...

After I got home from school, first thing I did was wash my car. It was a much needed car wash. My windows needed a fresh start, clean slate. The hard part was trying to get the roof of the car clean without falling off the car and breaking my neck. I think we should invest in a step ladder or something. Once the car wash was done, I had to get food for my brother and my dad. Then I headed off to Kevin's for the game. Yup... another Dodger game. This is my third game for the month, fifth for the year, and sixth overall. Kevin and I got to the Stadium around 4:50. Okay, perhaps not the stadium, but the line leading into the Stadium. It was a much longer line this time. We got in, ate our food (we stopped at Taco Bell before getting there). Okay, Kevin ate his food while he was in line and I ate half my quesadilla before we headed in. We got our baseball hats (it was a free baseball hat promotion night, hence the huge lines to get in), found our seats, and made our way to the front f...

From Dodgers.com: Twelve Dodgers have tentatively agreed to participate in Sunday's Mother's Day awareness for breast cancer event by using pink bats during their game at Dodger Stadium against the Cincinnati Reds. During games played on Mother's Day, Major League players will wear pink wristbands and pink ribbons will be displayed on player uniforms, as well as those of all on-field personnel. The breast cancer awareness theme will be carried throughout the game, including pink ribbon logos on the bases and commemorative home plates, and pink dugout lineup cards. Among those Dodgers looking to be involved are Wilson Betemit, Brady Clark, Andre Ethier, Rafael Furcal, Nomar Garciaparra, Jeff Kent, Mike Lieberthal, Russell Martin, Ramon Martinez, Juan Pierre and Olmedo Saenz. Select game-used bats, as well as team-autographed bats from every Club, will be auctioned on MLB.com at a later date, with proceeds benefiting Susan G. Komen for the Cure. More than 200 players have si...

You be the judge of that. I went to bed around two. Why? I spend a good hour or more uploading pics to Walgreens to print out. What happened? About 1:30, my internet connection decided to tell me it was time for me to go to bed because it stopped working. I figured I could go to class the next day and be able to send the order to walgreens and perhaps pick up the prints after class. Wrong. I didn't write down my log in info for Walgreens and was unable to log into Walgreens at school. Guess I'll have to send it when I get home and hope that hte internet at home is working. That way i can pick them up on Saturday and still get the 15 cent promotion. Guess you can figure out I didn't get up early to go to Pasadena to pick up my prints. But I did get a head start on my morning Starbucks. Good thing too because the barista behind the bar was slow this morning. it took forever for me to get my drink And since I got their crossant last time and didn't like it, there was a Win...

Or what! Driving to Carl's Jr. this evening, some car thought the lane we were in could fit two cars or something. I'm right behind Alan getting ready to turn, next thing I know... this car almost hits me as he drives past me ... while sharing the same lane! Good thing it was a pretty big lane. Hehe ... I'm pretty tired now but I'm trying to see if I have enough pictures to send to print. Walgreens has a great deal ... 100+ prints for 15 cents each ... compared to 50 + prints at 19 cents each. The promotion ends the 13th. Seeing as the only available Walgreens is Pasadena and I have class in the morning, I'm gonna try and squeeze this one in. And since I know how close it is ... maybe if I'm not too tired, I may actually try to get up early to pick them up BEFORE class. We'll see about htat. So, who wants to guess how many ellipses did I use in this post? Hehe ... I should do a contest. Winner gets an photo of Russell that I took! How does that sound?

... on the Los Angeles freeways. After I got off work, I headed over to the Target in Burbank. It's a much bigger Target and better organized. Well, apparently I must've been the target on the road today! When I was in the first lane, I hate being there, because that's when the cars try to merge on the freeway. Or, in this case, the lane is an exit only plus onramp and cars try to get out. Well, this one lady decided to butt her way into my lane. But instead of trying to get in behind me, she thinks she can get in while I was still next to her. A few more inches and she would've sideswiped me. Did she care? No. That was probably her intention. THEN I got home and saw that my print order was ready at WalGreens. This being the same one in Pasadena that I took forty minutes to find. Instead of waiting to pick them up tomorrow after class, I decide to go today. Getting there wasn't a big deal. Except for the accident on the other side of the 2 freeway. Thankfully by the...

To make up for lost time Color focus.. Color focus ... At the top of Dodger Stadium, where the ticket booths are. This is as we were leaving Dodger Stadium, at the Elysian Park exit. Once it got dark, you could really see the fire. By now, it had spread further south than it was before. There were taken from Palmer Drive. Since it was dark, it was really hard to get any decent pictures. The fire had been burning for about eight to nine hours by now. These were taken the next day, from the rooftop of the parking structure at the Glendale Galleria. May 9th, 2007.

Driving home from work, this is a constant battle. When I'm trying to get off the freeway, I'm on the far left lane and have to move over to the right lane, two lanes over. Sometimes it's real easy, especially when there aren't too many cars coming. Then there's moments like today, when there's a jerk in the middle lane who is going too fast for you to go in front of, but not fast enough for you to get behind. AND THEN they're trying to change into the lane you're in ... while you're still in it! What do I do? Slow down and try to change behind them, but then again, they're not going fast enough for me to change. All I can do is wait for them to move ahead of me, hoping they're smart enough to wait to change into my lane once I'm not there. Instead of trying to squish me. Speaking of squishing... when I got to work this morning, this other jerk was parked crooked in the parking lot. So, instead of trying to find another spot, I pull in ne...

Boy ... I guess three days in the blog world does seem like an eternity. Well, according to "The Cubicle Next Door." Cute book. According to someone *cough* Stacy *cough*, I haven't blogged since Sunday. Let's see... whoops... getting distracted ... Awww ... Russell is so cute when he talks about his dad. And his dad ... awww ... he gets so emotional when he talks about Russell. Makes me wish our TV/Dish was hooked up the VCR. I could've recorded it! What am I rambling about now? Since we upgraded our Dish to include Prime and FSN, I get Dodgers almost all the time now! Well, other than getting Dodger games and replays of said games, they also have Dodger Insider, and "Before the Bigs." Actually, "Before the Bigs" involves the other sports as well. Like yesterday, they had an episode with LUKE WALTON! Well, I looked ahead and saw that this morning, guess what? RUSSELL's was on at 12:30. So, I got up at noon. Couldn't sleep in any longer...

First of all, it started off with a staff meeting at eight. During the said staff meeting, Mariam decides to ask about when you start helping a customer, but then get busy to check on customer, and someone else helps them. Who does the sale go to? She said she tries to be fair, but gets mad when people steal her sales. EXCUSE ME?!?!? Didn't she do this to me on Tuesday? First of all, I gave her a chance to help the lady she was helping. She wasn't busy on Tuesday. So what? I didn't intentionally try to steal her sale. I was just trying to help the customer because she certainly wasn't helping her. Besides, in the end, she rang her up under her number anyway. AND on top of that, she TOOK MY sale, which she "thought" was hers. Okay, so we don't work on commission, but still... I was so mad. That was the point I wanted to make, but I couldn't get a word in edgewise. Well, sorta the same point. Because she was supposed to make up the sale to me. HOW IS A ...

Argh, the guy next to me is driving me crazy. Copy and paste, no problem right? Nope. I tell him to hit, control and v. What does he do? Shift v. Again, I tell him, Control, v. He does it. Nothing shows up. I tell him, go back, highlight what you want, hit control c. What does he do? Shift c. I tell him, "control, not shift" once again. Then we go back and I tell him, "okay, now hit control V, no control, not shift." Sigh. I like my seat. I do. It's the very last seat in the first row. I prefer having the last seat. However, I don't like being stuck next to this guy the entire semester. He rarely knows what he's doing. The poor t.a.'s are always getting stuck helping this guy out. Not only are they stuck, so am I. Even the teacher was getting frustrated with him today. One of the t.a.'s would smile and wink cuz she knew I was stuck next to this guy who didn't know what he was doing. I was already done and off in blogging world, adding and cha...

Today was a breeze. Except ... I got as pink as ... well ... a flamingo! No, not from embarrassment. From our friend, Mr. Sun. Turns out the sun decided to stop playing hide and seek around the time the game started. So by the second or third inning, the sun was out in full force. Where was I? A Dodger game, naturally. Wasn't I just at one last night? Yup. Why was I at one again? It's one of their only afternoon games. Kevin and I left his place around 9:30, stopped at Burger King so I could grab some breakfast. It was a good idea. Not a great breakfast, just a good idea. In fact, I should've stuck to my original plan and went to Starbucks. We got to Dodger Stadium before ten. The gates weren't even open yet. There were about three lanes of cars in front of us, each three deep. So we sat in the car for about ten to fifteen minutes before they opened the gates. Some idiot decides to try to cut in front of me, and wouldn't take no for an answer. At least he was a poli...

Has the day ended better than it started? I guess so. Dodgers won! So, that's a plus. We got to the game really early, another plus. Our seats were awesome! They were better than I expected, so plus, plus. That's what ... up to 5 or so. Anyway, I think I was in a mood swing most of the day until after I got off work and got some food in me. Plus ... the lack of food plus certain circumstances equals a raging, ranting, madwoman. Today's game was ... well ... wow... it's late an I have to be up in less than nine hours for a day game. Which, I'm really excited about. This one had no stressful strings attached. But, alls well that ends well. And today certainly did. Daniel gave in and went with us. So, phew. That ticket didn't go to waste after all. And let me say this, the seats were amazing! We had several foul balls hit our way, though mostly in front or behind us. Still... and the pictures I took ... awesome! That's all I'm gonna post for now. I'll d...

Uhh I guess my day isn't a .5 anymore. It's more like a 1 or 1.5. Yes, Stacy, I just got off work and picked up food and now I am at Daniel's. Work wasn't that great. In fact, it just followed the way the morning has been. I spent an hour in the stock room and only got two boxes of shipment done, instead of three like yesterday. I should've had more done. One of the boxes was half full of shoes, which is pretty easy. BUT it took forever to put them away because there was no room in the shoes. I had to rearrange all the shoes, proceeding to break the nail on my big toe. It didn't matter, but then I saw a little blood peeking out. It wasn't enough to worry about. What made my day worse was when Mariam accidentally rang one of my sales under hers. I was helping two ladies in the fitting room. You would think the jeans would tip her off. They were from off the floor. YET she still rang her up under hers. She thought this was the lady she grabbed a pair of shoes...

Okay, it's a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad morning. It's not even ten yet. On a scale on one to ten, with ten being awesome ... today is wavering between a .5 and a 1. How is that possible? Where do I start? How about having four tickets to tonight's Dodger game, and from the get-go, I couldn't find a fourth person? I asked about half a dozen friends, not a single taker. When I finally find someone to take the fourth spot, my number 2 person drops out on me. Now I'm back to finding someone and it's even harder now! Then there's the Dodgers getting hammered yesterday. You don't even want to know the score. Let's move onto this morning. I got up early to go to work to get coffee. When I get to work, I park in the closest spot I found. NEXT TO A VERY CROOKEDLY PARK vehicle. It wasn't even a little car either. It wasn't an SUV, but it's the size in between. Not wanting to climb over the passenger seat, I squeezed through the small ope...