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REID: (to Morgan) Can you get in there? HOTCHNER: I'll ... meet you guys up there. REID: Don't do that. (Morgan stops. Then he jumps a couple more times.) MORGAN: Why isn't it moving? REID: I don't know. REID: Don't -- stop it! Don't -- MORGAN: What? What's the problem? REID: Don't do that! MORGAN: Why not? REID: Because there are six elevator-related deaths per year, not to mention ten thousand injuries that require hospitalization. Chill out. MORGAN: That sounds like pretty good odds to me. What? What? Are you scared, Reid? You scared? You scared of -- REID: I'm not scared. I don't want to be in an elevator with you, to be honest. MORGAN: How about I push that? What if I push -- MORGAN: Whoa. Whoa. Okay. REID: Um ... hit the--hit the-- MORGAN: Yeah. REID: Push it! It might have-- MORGAN: Push, pull, push, pull. I'm doing it. Nothing's happening. REID: Pry -- pry -- Pry the door open. Just -- REID: Yeah....

So, when Angelina texted me yesterday about the Dodgers Caravan going to Panda Inn by her place, I was bummed because I worked on the day they were going to be there.Then today,she asked me about something else. When I got on the computer, I started looking for it. I came to this page about the Dodgers Caravan next week. As I was reading the article, the first thing that jumped out to me was that they were going to JOHN MARSHALL HIGH SCHOOL. My high school??? Are you serious? Too bad it's closed to the public. Though I'm gonna bug my brother to try and get something signed for me. I'm going to try to go to one of the events that's open to the public. Who knows. But I'm going to try. P.S. How many of you were intrigued just by the title?

That's the sign that greeted me when I drove down my street. I stopped to ask the cop sitting there if I could drive down to my house. About the third time I drove to my house, a cop stopped me because he said I was going too fast, that he was worried that I didn't see all the film equipment up ahead. There's some of the equipment, including the dummy. I wonder how they manage to film everything without everything in the background being seen. Yup, that was parked in front of my house when I got home. Good thing I knew they were filming or else ... hmmm I think that's the body of the gangster the mail lady finds on the porch. He's one of the local detectives. The other local detective. the one on the gang task force I think BTW ... who delivered the pizza? Here's the rest of them arriving. Too bad i didn't take more pictures.

Okay, so it's an older episode... but I'm just now watching the first two episodes of the third season. I finally got them the other night. Anyone who has seen the second episode of the third season, watch the elementary school where David (the kid) goes to. Because guess what? Yup. That's my elementary school! I bet I even drove by when they filmed it and didn't realize it was them filming it. They film there all the time. How far away from my house is this school? Only about six blocks.

Well, what goes up must come down....and that is exactly what Chloe's numbers have done. Please continue to pray for Chloe as her numbers are dangerously low at 251. I feel so bad for taking Chloe out anywhere. I had no idea her numbers were so low. Thank you for remembering us in prayer. Love, Karla & Family Update on Chloe 1-9-08 Chloe did awesome on our trip up to Portland for two weeks. We all had a great time and it even snowed on Christmas day! Chloe had a very rough time at her appointment yesterday but she is still hanging on to good numbers. She is at 966, yay!! I didn't send out an update before we left, but her numbers went all the way up to 2933!! It was a wonderful start to our trip. Chloe hasn't eaten much for the past six days so she was put on a steroid yesterday to help increase her appetite. Hopefully that will work. Happy New Year to you all and once again thank you for lifting up our family in prayer. Much love and thanks, Karla, David, Ashley, Hann...

So, I was watching an episode of Criminal Minds (3rd Life, aired January 16th) and I had to stop in the middle of watching it. Why? A very familiar location just appeared. The Alex Theatre. When in the world did they film at the Alex Theatre??? What and where is this Alex Theatre, you may ask? It's in Glendale, just around the corner from where I work! In fact, I drove by it the other night to get to the freeway to go to Nina's. I think that's kinda funny since they just recently filmed an episode of Criminal Minds (True Night) just down the street from my house. The Alex Theatre is a really fancy theatre. I've only been to it a few times. The first time was for a Last Supper type service with the Jehovah Witnesses. Why? Long story. The second and most recent time was a couple years ago, I saw that the Alex Theatre was having a showing of "The Princess Bride". My friend Leah and I went. I love "The Princess Bride". We showed up early, went to Starbuc...

Buttons. I hate buttons. Actually, it's more like I hate it when people completely unbutton something that does not need to be unbuttoned. Why? Because they know how to unbutton it, but they don't know how to button it back up. Why is it necessary for someone to unbutton all the buttons on a dress or skirt to try it on? For example, we have this new dress that has maybe a dozen buttons on it. Is it really necessary for EVERY button to be unbuttoned to try on? Same thing with this skirt. Is it really necessary for EVERY button to be unbuttoned? No, it's not. I, for one, NEVER unbutton anything unless I have to. And then, I'd only button as little button. For the most part, I don't unbutton anything if I can't help. And if I do ... I button it back. However, it seems that's a concept that's quite foreign to most of our customers. For example ... there's this one cardigan in our store ... several buttons. I must've buttoned that thing three times al...

Today was an interesting day, to say the least. I'll start off with the first thing of the day. At exactly 7:00, I woke up from a bad dream. The dream affected me so much that it made my blood run cold. Okay, so I was cold anyway. But this was a different kind of cold that only a bad dream could've left me. Anyone know what I'm talking about? So, what was my dream about? One word. Dinosaurs. It was really weird, but I was scared out of my mind in the dream. In fact, I think there was only one kind of dinosaur in my dream. Velociraptors. *shudders* I've had bad dreams about dinosaurs ever since I saw Jurassic Park when I was a kid. Eventually I got up and went to work. It started off slowly and then business just picked up. Olga and Tracy were looking for something, and Tracy told Olga to ask me, because I'm supposed to know everything. It's going to be interesting readjusting to Tracy now that we're all used to how Tanzania ran things. When Tracy and I came ...

Update on Chloe 1-9-08 Chloe did awesome on our trip up to Portland for two weeks. We all had a great time and it even snowed on Christmas day! Chloe had a very rough time at her appointment yesterday but she is still hanging on to good numbers. She is at 966, yay!! I didn't send out an update before we left, but her numbers went all the way up to 2933!! It was a wonderful start to our trip. Chloe hasn't eaten much for the past six days so she was put on a steroid yesterday to help increase her appetite. Hopefully that will work. Happy New Year to you all and once again thank you for lifting up our family in prayer. Much love and thanks, Karla, David, Ashley, Hannah & Chloe :D

Too bad she didn't know what she needed me to translate for her! Yesterday at work, I was in the front when Mariam called me to the register. What did she want? She wanted me to translate for her. I looked at the two women at the registers. Neither of them looked like they spoke Spanish. One was a Caucasian blond lady. The other was Asian. So I told Mariam that I didn't speak Chinese. Mariam asks the lady what she spoke and she said Korean. So I told Mariam I didn't speak Korean. Now Mariam has done this before. The last couple of times were with Spanish speaking ladies because I know a limited amount of Spanish. But I don't like to translate because I don't really know enough Spanish. Other than Spanish, when has Mariam EVER heard me speak anything other than English? And why would she assume I know how to speak Korean or Chinese or whatever language she thinks I can speak? Am I to assume that because she can speak Armenian that she can speak other European languag...