71/365: Behind the complex

Behind the apt complex is this dirt path with pine needles. It's a creepy place to me because i swear i saw a homeless person come out from under the bridge near by one morning. and it took me by surprise because of the early hour and the way they looked.

Anyway, cyrus likes to do his "business" here so i played around with the ISO on my camera and got this blurry motion shot of the cars going by.

65/365: My favorite strip of apartment sidewalk.

For some reason, every time I make the turn to go down this strip of sidewalk, it makes me happy. Like something inside me is very pleased. I think it's the aesthetics of it...like with the way the light falls, the tallness of the buildings, and the greeness of the grass. It is very pleasing to the eye and makes me happy for a while.

64/365: Nothing worth blogging...

but i need to post a pic so....

i guess i am just surprised that the apartment, that was cleaned 4 days ago, is still neat.

maybe that is because bri is in utah for the week snowboarding hehe.

63/365: Day off

I love my days off and I did absolutely nothing. It was perfect ...well i ran the dishwasher. Then i took a nap because I wasn't feeling too well. Now I feel better and will probably take this baby out for a walk before the rain starts again. His face is made for taking pictures :)

62/365: Droplets

I love my mega zoom function. I get so happy to see how clear an image i can get at such a close mag.

Still raining, but warm at least. Better than all the snow my fam is getting in NY. I'll take rain over snow any day!

60/365: Watercolor sky

It's been raining all day and the sky looks angry and beautiful all at once.

57/365: Warm colors

It's been pretty warm and sunny out the last two days or so and I love the color that the sun at this time of day casts into the apartment. It's a very warm yellow color.

Today was a pretty easy day. Floor till 1, class till 3:30, home by 4:15. Now I'm catching up on tiVo recordings until american idol :)

54/365: This is me tonight

First day back at the big house and I'm already overworked and dead. I don't even wanna hear "oh, well welcome to the life of a tech" one more time or i'll shin kick the ass who is telling it to me. And please don't touch me, let alone slap the back of my head. I don't know you. Not cool.

Sore heels, knees, chest and back. I'm over it.

17 weeks.

UPDATE from post #48: The go away mat....it didnt work. Just got our first solicitors with it. Bastards.

49/365: Let there be sun!

After a what feels like a solid week of rain, we had a break in the weather and it's actually pretty nice out, so Cyrus went on the deck to take advantage of it. I saw him out there so I brought out his old fleece bed that I made and he made himself comfortable.

I don't know what he was doing with that silly face of his, I always seem to catch him doing something funny. But he looks like he is talking and I caught him mid-sentence.

48/365: It's how I feel

I got this today from kitchenkapers.com and i love it.

Hopefully it will work.

46/365: Candy Love

I don't care if its bad for your teeth, or what it may do to your arteries. If it's sweet and delicious, and if I'm bored and its raining out, I'm going to eat it.

37/365: Still raining.

I's been raining the last few days and I am loving it. Didn't do much today, just relaxed at home and went to a matinee to see Taken. It's a good movie, but parts of it made me feel sick to my stomach. I won't spoil it though, but I left there feeling kinda depressed. And I definitely will be thinking twice about letting my future kid go to Europe alone lol

35/365: Calm before the storm.

It's supposed to rain tomorrow and Thursday and the people of California are freaking out. I, personally, enjoy the rain. The sound, the smell, the whole staying indoors thing. Thunder makes it even better, but I still have yet to hear thunder out here.

So in preparation for the rain I took all but 2 minutes to put our chairs in the storage closet out there, and cover the bbq. Whew, didn't think I could handle it.

31/365: Supermarket Hatred

We only go to the grocery store when we absolutely need to (i.e. starving, having a party). Now, granted we are on our last roll of TP, have no milk, and no food to cook for dinner, but that is ok because we have an unopened bottle of champagne from new years, a pint of heavy creme that is about to turn, some beer and burger buns, and a jar full of pickle juice with probably only one pickle left. We can concoct something out of that, right?

I don't know why, but I have found myself to develop a strong hatred toward the grocery store. Between the slow, aisle hogging people, to the long annoying lines, to the carts that somehow always end up a tad bit too close to my car in the parking lot, I really would much rather go hungry (temporarily, of course) than deal with that. I always leave pissed off. Sad, I know. But true as you can see!

*Whispers* we will probably end up going later tonight once all the slow old people are sound asleep and the run away germy carts are tucked in for the night .That's the joy of having a 24 hour Safeway. Now, if only i will be awake myself to go...

Oh, and one more thing....this blog has successfully posted a picture a day, everyday, for this entire month of January! So far so good. I am proud :) Now, I am off to eat some burger buns....

24/365: Still raining

It's still raining and really gray out. Our deck has this huge puddle from where the cement must have settled before it dried so the water pools there. It sucks because if i sweep the water off, it will only go on the neighbors deck below (not that I really care, but that is just kinda mean) and when the water does eventually dry, it leaves this disgusting permanent residue that makes the deck look filthy.

Anyway, nothing really happened today. Bri went snowboarding and I worked. Tomorrow i work the late shift which completely sucks but hey, only 7 more weekend rotations till graduation!

14/365: Attack of the killer lamps!

Our original lamps were from Ikea *cough CRAP cough*, and had made it through two moves unscathed. But sometime last year, both lampshades managed to break within a few months of each other and my lamp was the only one that had a working bulb. So i rocked a ghetto looking lamp for a while. Well, bri ordered two of these humungo killer lamps from jcpenny.com and i just put it together right now and was like uhhhhh. I mean, it's like, '*yaaaaaaawn* i'm gonna go to bed now.......WHAM! Lamp in your face!!!"

i like the way they look but it's gonna take some getting used to...

9/365: Rug cleaning today, unsuccessful.

Bri rented a rug doctor to clean our incredibly dirty rug. And of course it doesn't clean for sh!t. But why would it? Nothing seems to be made with good quality anymore. It's always half ass so THEY can save a buck. I don't understand why a company will sell you a product and lie through their teeth that it will work if you buy this and buy that, yet has no intention of actually working. I would be willing to pay top dollar just to know that what i am purchasing will work 100%. I guess they figure it's the thought that counts? I would just appreciate a little honesty.