First Casualty of the Holiday Season

Ok, before you start in, these are NOT Christmas Trees. They are winter trees and we put them up early November and take them down sometime in January or February, depending on how lazy I am. I am a little behind putting them up this year and when I did, this happened...
























Awwww! The middle tree's light are out. So now I can either go through each light to find the one that is actually burnt out or I can go buy a new strand. Guess which one I'll do?

Slap Bet!

Do you guys watch How I Met Your Mother? It's a great show that you all are missing if you're not watching it. In the show they have this thing called Slap Bet. It's the most awesome thing ever.

Well, my jealous friends, Pretty Girl gets to be the "Slap Bet Commissioner." Yeah, that's right! I have never been more envious of her in my life, besides the day she was born and every day since! Ok, well maybe not that one day when she was in 6th grade was wrongly accused of throwing something from the school bus.

My only hope in life now, besides retiring before I die, is to be around when the slap happens.

What do you want from me?

I know, I know, I'm lame at posting! I got nothin' even now. It is November even though the temps are still in the 90s. Now all we have to look forward to is this:

Get Your Rain Here!

It rained today. Well, more like a deluge! Here's my street:



















Here is the closest thing I'll have to beach front property:



















Here's the guy trying to unclog the storm drain:



















He was not successful.

Clubbin'

Yeah, that's right people, I went clubbin'! My friend Trish was turning 21, oh wait, that's not the right number. Well, it was somewhere around there. Her friend Chris arranged for us to have a table at the new casino and a free room. Free's good!

Trish and I left early on a Saturday morning to take advantage of the pool. The rest of the entourage was to show up later. We made some friends at the pool, cuz we're friendly. Some random guy at the pool. Don't worry, his wife was there too.



















We had "beverages" at the pool. Mr Interesting, I think you know what's in here!



















Then the rest of the crew showed up and we went up to the room to get ready for the evening.



















A good time was had by all.



















Or so I was told the next morning.



















I'm sure that's right. Cheers!

Idiot!

Stupid, stupid, stupid! Some people do the most stupid things. Me being one of them. I have been thinking about all the stupid things I have done in my life and decided to share some of them with you. No judgment on your part, remember, I have blond hair!














You know the tunnel, the one that takes you from 7th Street to 7th Avenue? Well, Pretty Teacher, Pretty Doctor and I always did this thing when we drove through it. The thing was we would hold our breath to see if we could hold it the entire way. Sounds like a harmless competition right? Well not if you're the driver! Only a very short time ago I realized that I could actually pass out due to lack of oxygen and crash the car. So, needless to say, I don't do that anymore if I'm the driver!

























How about the time when I was in elementary school. We rode the bus cuz we lived up in the hills. We decided it would be a great idea to lay down in the street at the bus stop to see if the bus would actually be able to stop before the driver ran over us. Ok, we were young and stupid and very much idiots. Hence the title of this blog. The street the bus came down was very steep. Stopping on a dime (or before running over small children) would be pretty much impossible. Luckily, the bus driver was a pro and didn't smash us. He was pretty pissed. I guess he figured he would lose his job if he ran over 2 or 3 school children. I guess we didn't think that far ahead.

Or, how about the time we hid from the bus cuz we thought if the bus didn't pick us up we wouldn't have to go to school. Little did we know the very same bus driver was responsible for us and was very distraught that we weren't there. We never thought far enough ahead to think about what were we supposed to do for the entire day. Our Mom's didn't work so we couldn't go home. Luckily, the bus driver came back after we came out of the bushes. He yelled, we were scared, but we got to school and our parents never found out. Thank you Mr. Bell!

Okay, that's enough for now. I'm feeling pretty stupid.

Nightmares on My Street

So today at work was a nightmare for me and I wasn't asleep. I kept thinking I needed to wake from it but then would realize that I wasn't asleep and there was nothing I could do but ride it out.

Then I went home to take my daily walk. Now, I need to be clear here that my daily walk is very rigorous. When you stop laughing I can explain that I don't jog anymore because I have already had one surgery due to running and it was not a pleasant experience so I don't want to repeat it. It had to do with the nurses not being confident the doctor knew which knee to operate on so she wrote "no" on the knee not to operate on. When I read the two letters I couldn't figure out what "on" meant. When the nurse explained it to me I didn't have confidence in anyone in that operating room. I was so gleeful when I woke up and realized they fixed the correct knee I almost didn't need the pain medication. I said almost!













Anyway, I walk very fast, work up quite a sweat and it's great cardio. So, as I was saying, I went on my walk. The last third of my walk is along a canal. This is where my second nightmare began. My walks help me decompress from my day. Today, walking the canal I had that weird thing, like nightmares, of looking to the end of the canal and as I kept walking the end kept getting farther away. Seriously, I'm not kidding. It was crazy! You know the feeling, like the walking sidewalks at the airport only they never end. It was not a good feeling.

I don't know how but I finally got through it and made it home. If any of you have any advice on how to wake up from a nightmare that you are not asleep in let me know! Tomorrow's not looking good either.