FallingLEAVes of Sunshine

As promised, here are the pictures of the "night". My passenger side window was completely gone. I barely noticed it wasn't there at first. Then I saw the glass every where and put two and two together, and let me tell you. It did not equal four because I was missing a window! It seems like our would-be thieves at the church tend to leave their tools behind! Once, they tried to take the tires off our Sunday school van and they left all their tools behind, including the jack that the van was still raised on and some eye glasses. Well, thankfully my tires were still all there, no eye glasses were found, but they did leave behind this giant screw driver that they had used to break into my car. With some help from Nina, Kevin, and Juan, we got my passenger side saran wrapped. That however did not keep my car fresh. But it worked for the time being. As for that update ... windows were fixed yesterday for $205. Sherisse took me to where her dad took her car when they broke into...

... RIGHT? You'd think having my windshield looking like it does would be bad enough. Guess what? After church tonight, we had pizza downstairs. I looked at the clock and saw it was time to take one of the kids from Sunday school home. We got to my car, which is parked right under the light in our parking lot, and I unlocked it. I opened my side and looked on the passenger side. I thought to myself... "why is the passenger side such a mess? I don't remember leaving stuff ... on ... it..." That's when I realized my passenger side window was COMPLETELY smashed in. There was nothing left of the window. Then I realized, my center console was open (both the top and the center), my glove compartment was open, and there was glass EVERYWHERE. What was taken? My cell phone, which silly me, I left on my side of the car. My hand vacuum which I left in the passenger side. It was dead anyway. I had forgot to take it back inside the house to charge. A bunch of my Russell Martin...

In case you didn't know, I was gone this week at our annual Youth Camp. I'll go into details later about Youth Camp. Right now, I still have a lingering headache from the drive home. Funny. I had a headache from the drive to camp as well. When I got home, I laid down for a couple hours, trying to get the headache and queasiness to go away. My mom came home. After I ate, she asked me to go to Vons to buy some bottled water and stuff. That's when she tells me that a tree branch fell in our back yard. Guess what it landed on? My car. Don't believe me? Here are some pictures to prove it. Headache gets worse.

Down the tube. That's my third loss so far, two in a row. Hmm maybe my lucky streak is over. The game could have been over and a victory to boot when Kemp dropped a fly ball. It looked like he didn't get a good jump on it. I saw Joe and Jose. They were in the row ahead of us. When I talked to Jose, the team was ahead. Then in the ninth inning, the Mets tied it up, and in the tenth, they scored the winning run. Russell struck out THREE times. And while Garciaparra managed to hit his third (?) home run of the season, he had the final at bat of the game and struck out. LOL I actually don't remember how many home runs he has. Furcal led the game off with a home run. The last four games my cousin and I have gone to, at least two Dodgers have homered. July 8 - Martin and Ethier July 18 - Ethier and Gonzo July 19 - Kemp and Kent July 22 - Furcal and Garciaparra And we've got one more game left to go to. July 31st. Hopefully the Dodgers will get back in the winning groove! I to...

13 - 9. That was the final score of tonight's game against the Mets. The only part of the tonight's game I'll mention is Loney is doing awesome at first! Towards the end of the game, eighth or ninth inning, he made another great catch! Kevin yells out, "Go Nomar!" I told him, "That's Loney." He asks me, "When did they switch?" I told him, "A couple weeks ago." That made a good laugh. I asked him, didn't he notice Loney was at first and Nomar was at third? What about the lineup and when they announced the players. But that's not what got me mad. I came home and something come up. I got really mad about it. That may be something you're not aware of. I have my dad's temper. He gets really mad and breaks things. My brother's the same way. They like to slam and break. I was so mad I wanted to throw something. So I did. I went outside and threw my softball around. That was after I emptied my airsoft clip. My clip ho...

Another nail biter, that's for sure. When we were down, 3 - 1, then tied up, I wasn't sure what the outcome was gonna be. I was hoping for a Dodgers win so my record will stay at one loss. Today's game wasn't planned. I had wanted to go to this game because it was a day game, 12:10 start. But I was scheduled to work 11 - 3. Work has been slow, so my boss has been cutting hours this week. My hours were cut today, so I was free to go to the game. My cousin and I sat in Lower Reserve. Highlights of the game? Loney's awesome sliding catch in foul territory. Russell's amazing catch against the backstop netting (knocked the guy over on the other side). Ethier's home run. Gonzo's home run (which won the game). I missed the pitch that Saito threw that hit the ump. Guess it was all over the web and on TV. That's the hard part about not hearing the game. You don't know what's going on sometimes. Like last game when Kemp only played the first inning and...

Okay, not literally. Tonight was one of the games I was supposed to go to. Okay, so I had hoped to go to a lot of games this week. Tuesday was the night I had planned to go with Tanzy and her cousins. But that didn't work out. I wanted to go to tomorrow and Saturday's games because they were day games, but I have work both days. The games I am going to? Thursday and Sunday. How did I dodge a bullet? If anyone paid attention to tonight's game, the Dodgers LOST. Big time. The final score was 15 - 3. FIFTEEN to THREE??? So, since I didn't go to tonight's game, my record remains 9 - 1, instead of dropping to 9 - 2 if I had gone. Well, my cousin said maybe the outcome would've been different if I had gone. Probably not. I think it would still be the same. Because it doesn't matter if I'm there or not. After all, it's not like it matters who's in attendance. It matters how the Dodgers are playing. And well... tonight, they dropped the ball. Though I wo...

That's what the guy said when I answered the door tonight after I got home from work. It was the neighborhood Dodger fan. Uhh for the sake of conversation, let's call him Roger the Dodger fan. Roger has come around a couple times. He's one of the neighborhood guys who likes to go out for walks. Shall I recap my encounters with Roger? #1. I think I had just gotten home from getting food for my brother and he was walking by. He made some comments about the Dodgers, Russell "the muscle" Martin, and who's number 1. #2. I just gotten home (again) and was getting ready to head out. He was walking by and he said hey and that he had a "vote for Russell" sticker for me. He said he'd bring it by and leave it on my car. Unfortunately, he caught me just as I was heading out. He came back and I was gone. #3. He rang the doorbell just as I got home from work and changed. Again, I was headed out. He said he and a little buddy had been saving something for me. H...

In case you don't know what a suicide squeeze is, it's a play in baseball. According to wikipedia, "In baseball , a squeeze play is a sacrifice bunt with a runner on third and fewer than two outs." Actually, what I was referring to in the title isn't really a suicide squeeze. I just hate being squeezed on the freeway, that's all. Every week, I get squeezed a couple times trying to get onto the freeway to go to work. Today, on my way back from the Long Beach Airport, I was in my lane when the car to my right started to veer into my lane. No problem, right? Except he was RIGHT next to me. So, I started to change lanes, but unfortunately there was a car to my left. I was able to veer enough to avoid collision with both vehicles, though it scared me to death for a few seconds. Also earlier this week, I was in my lane when the truck (think pick-up, not semi) started to change lanes. Only problem was, he was neither in front of me nor behind me. He was next to me!...

Looking at Stacy's blog about camp meeting, it made me think that I have been thinking about the things I do miss and not miss about camp meeting this year. Things I miss 1) Participating in the young people's services. This is probably the only time I get to. 2) The incredible prayer meetings we have 3) Hearing all the different testimonies. I forgot how much I missed this till I heard the first testimony of the 2007 Camp Meeting. 4) Singing the good ol' camp meeting songs. Well, most of them. Some of them were just too high for me, or in a odd key. Things I don't miss 1) Being on the big screen in the tabernacle 2) Trying to keep any and all electronic devices fully (or partially) charged, i.e. camera batteries, cell phone batteries, and so forth. 3) Rushing from lunch to young people's choir practice. 4) My feet being dusty, dirty, and probably cracked and dried. 5) Remembering to put my name tag on. Looks like the tags came back this year. 6) The thumping of my ...

Just when I thought my record was going to be 8 - 2, the Dodgers didn't let me down. After losing the first two game of the series to the Marlins, I was afraid the Marlins were going to bring the broom and sweep my boys during this last game before the All Star Break. Couple things from today's game. Top of first inning, Pierre made a great dive but didn't get the ball. Instead of being booed, the crowd cheered and encouraged him. Well, the crowd sitting behind me was anyway. Bottom of the first inning, Martin doesn't get much time to warm up on the on-deck circle. Guess he didn't need much time because as soon as he gets up to bat, he rockets the ball out to the left field box seats. Home run, Martin!!! The first inning sent all nine batters up to bat, going through the line up. Grady Little had to come out to the first base after Matt Kemp got there. It looked like he might have been hurt, but he stayed in for the rest of first inning. When the players came back o...

I'm sure he didn't mean to. He set it down and we didn't pick it up. The guy had a dozen pens and sharpies. How was he supposed to remember the one he was using was mine? It's not like we were the hundredth person and hundredth and one person in line. Actually, we were fifth and sixth in line. "In line for what?" you may ask. To get his autograph, duh! Joanne (my 12 year old cousin who is visiting from North Carolina, a Los Angeles native) and I got up a little after seven this morning, went to Starbucks (and Winchells, but I never got to eat my croissant) before heading out to Penske MotoCars in West Covina. According to the instructions I printed out, I ended up at Penske Mercedes MotoCars. The right one I was looking for was on the other side of the freeway. Fortunately, it was only 8, and the thing didn't start till noon. We got there and the employees there didn't know where to direct us. There was another guy and his three kids who arrived at 7. ...

YEA!!!! They announced the starters for this year's All Star teams. And Russell made it!!! Yay!!!! It was so cute. Of course, for the post game show they talked with Russell. AMartinez asked him, when you get into the clubhouse and to your cell phone, who are you going to call first, mom or dad? Russell says he's gonna flip a coin, heads he'll call dad, and tails, he'll call mom. I thought that was very cute. Anyway, today was the first day of Camp Meeting. It is a very odd feeling to know it's going on in Portland and know that I'm here in L.A. Not there. LOL I went to work this morning and my boss laughed when she saw me. Guess I looked tired. Well, I'll be looking tired for a while. It was nice though to have every other day off after that eight-day stretch where I didn't have a day off. I'm looking forward to catching some sleep tonight!