FallingLEAVes of Sunshine

This has been floating around recently, I guess. It was recently uploaded on the fourth of this month. It's a video of the 1986 Dodgers doing the Baseball Boogie . This is the description off the poster's youtube page : " Funniest video ever!! 1986 Dodgers a.k.a. The Baseball Boogie Bunch perform hilarious Super Bowl Shuffle like song and dance about their season. Starring Current Dodger coaches Rick Honeycutt, Ken Howell, and Mariano Duncan. Also starring others like Orel Hershiser and Mike Scoscia!! This is Hilarious!!". Seeing as I was only two years old around that time, the only Dodger I recognized was Orel. He's an easy guy to recognize. I think I may have recognized Duncan, but I'm not too sure. As someone suggested, when watching this video ... two rules. 1) Turn your sound up. 2) Don't show this to any Giants' fan. And I agree with the guy who posted this. It's HILARIOUS. The other thing you may have missed? Today was the first exhibition ...

Like nobody's business! http://baseballislife.mlblogs.com/photos/baseball_people_i_have_me/index.html I counted 158 photos. Not 158 people, because he has multiple photos with different players. There's two or three of Andre Ethier and Russell Martin, Matt Kemp, and other guys. He also has a Dodger's baseball blog. http://baseballislife.mlblogs.com/my_weblog_about_the_los_a/

When I got home, my mom handed me something that arrived in the mail. She asked me something about why I bought so many tickets. I didn't understand at first till I got to my room. I looked at the address and it read 1000 Elysian Park Avenue. That should've been my clue right then. I opened the already opened envelope and rubber-banded together were 24 TICKETS! Here are the dates and games that I have tickets to! Day Date Opponent Monday April 14 Pittsburgh Pirates Monday May 5 New York Mets Monday May 19 Cincinnati Reds Friday May 23 St. Louis Cardinals Monday June 2 Colorado Rockies Sunday June 8 Chicago Cubs Monday July 7 Atlanta Braves Friday July 11 Florida Marlins Saturday July 26 Washington Nationals Monday August 11 Philadelphia Phillies Monday September 1 San Diego Padres Friday September 5 Arizona Diamondbacks The circled part is where my seats are. Row B. Seats five and six. That's where I'll be for twelve games! Let's Go! Batter-u...

That was the first thing I heard about when I went to work today. No comment about my improvement on getting to work earlier. Just that my manager received TWO complaints. About me. That was the bombshell. I've been at my current job for over two years and this is the first time that I've actually had a complaint written against me. Sure, I've had a customer make some ridiculous criticism or complaint here or there, but I was always able to take it in stride. This one took longer. I'm not sure why I got so upset over it. Maybe it was the way my boss said it to me. Or it was my first actual complaint. So what was the complaint about? This customer came in to do a return and exchange. I did the return and exchange, however this one was a little more complicated than your usual return. Not only was it bought in another state, it was bought with a discount that was already expired. When I tried to make a joke, the customer took it the wrong way. Apparently, she tried to let...

I got a call yesterday for a second interview with Binder & Binder. They wanted me to come in today but I was going out of town. They said they would call me back on Tuesday to set up a second interview. Is it time for a change? Is it time for me to leave my current position? If I accepted the job at B&B, then I would have to quit my current job. It's a full-time position, Monday through Friday, 8:45 - 5:45. NOW one of the problems is location. The building is located off the 10 and 405 freeways. Now if anyone knows the 110, the 10, or the 405 freeways... you know that they're parking lots during the times I would be going to work and coming home from work. So, is the commute worth the full-time position? The bright side, it offers stability and weekends off. I can't tell you the last time I had a weekend off without requesting it. Or stability. When I first started working there, I did have some stability because I did work like either 9 to 5:30, or 10-6:30 from Mo...

Someone went to my friend and told her, "before my brother married so-and-so, he had a crush on you." Considering my friend is much younger than the guy mentioned, she thinks that he might have mistaken her for me. This is possible because we are just a year apart. And there were times that I did wonder. Now I just wonder if it was true. Did I miss a chance? Did I ever have a chance? Maybe I'm just wondering over nothing.

I hope did the stats right. First Half Results: 9 Games 8 Wins, 1 Loss (88.9% Winning Average) 5 Home Runs (One home run per 1.8 games) 7 Stolen Bases (One stolen base per 1.26 games) 81 Innings 44 Runs Scored (4.89 runs scored per game) 24 Runs Scored by Opponent (2.67 runs scored per game) Second Half Results: 8 Games 3 Wins, 5 Losses (37.5% Winning Average) 7 Homeruns (One home run per 1.14 games) 6 Stolen Bases (One stolen base per 1.33 games) 74 Innings 36 Runs Scored (4.5 runs scored per game) 48 Runs Scored by Opponent (6 runs scored per game) Total Results: 17 Games 11 Wins, 6 Loss (64.7% Winning Average) 12 Home Runs (One home run per 1.42 games) 13 Stolen Bases (One stolen base per 1.31 games) 155 Innings 80 Runs Scored (4.71 runs scored per game) 72 Runs Scored by Opponent (4.24 runs scored per game)

I just saw one blogger's posting of photos from the signing at Yankee Doodles and guess what... NO PICTURES OF RUSSELL!?! Now how can that be? Well, I decided to post my own pictures then. I'm working on that blog about it. But for now ... pictures will have to do. Russell stretching I wonder what he's laughing about. Beautiful laugh Matt Kemp showed up instead of Brad Penny Jeff Kent checking on the time I missed getting an autograph from STEVE GARVEY again! That's a Russell Martin bobblehead btw She gave him a besito (little kiss) which I missed And now ... the signing of my scrap book

Update on Chloe 2.7.08 Great news!!! Chloe went from 51 to 1285 in only one week!!! As most of you all know it usually takes Chloe a while to get her numbers back up...I am speechless and very thankful. God is so good!! Thanks so much for thinking of...and praying for....our family for the past 9 months. It's wonderful to be a part of the family of God. I wouldn't want to imagine life any other way. Love and thanks, Karla & Family P.S. Marathon training is going great...20 miles this Saturday!! Only 3 weeks to go! Yikes! Update on Chloe 1.31.08 Chloe's numbers have dropped again down to only 51. Other than the low numbers she is still feeling great! What a trooper! We thank you for your prayers, Karla & Family

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...

SOOO.... the lead sales associate (Mariam) has been gone since before Thanksgiving on a leave of absence. Hooray! Let's all throw a party! Well, she wasn't supposed to be back until almost the end of this month. Unfortunately, she came back early and came back to work on Sunday. Boo! On her second day of work, tensions are high and so are emotions! My boss (the store manager) came in and asked how were things going. I told her, that was yet to be seen. Later when I talked to her on my way out, she said she could sense that things were tense. First, let's start with the whole "I'm not capable of being in petite" attitude Lesa has towards me. Every time. I was already in petite and Sarah was in front. So Mariam was supposed to be in front right? Not according to her. She sends me up front with two bags of shipment (which by the way, I only finished like half of one) while she rings people up. When I went on my break, I told her that I had TWO customers in the fi...