Huh?

Can someone please tell me where October went? It's Halloween on Friday. How the heck did that happen?

Wanna make a bedridden pregnant woman laugh?

Do this!

Laptop fixed... Card to be torched.

I got my laptop fixed for under $200 (new hard drive) so I was happy about that and the guy at the Genius Bar at Apple was great to work with. I still lost some stuff, but happily, I backed up not long before it died. As for the Flash Card... it is done. I will happily set fire to it and buy a new one. Lesson learned... again. Back up card the minute you get home. But all is not lost. Proving once again how amazing a husband is, he has offered to re-do the birthday festivities again and go back to the pumpkin patch. We might even grab lunch at the Farmers Market again and catch a movie. I love him so much. And hey, maybe I'll get some even more amazing images this time.

Uh huh...

My Compact Flash 1 gig card full of pictures from the pumpkin patch on my birthday took a shit too. I mean, a real shit. No recovery program on the planet can fix it! I tried. Maybe the baby is electromagnetic. I mean, I was nicknamed "Magneto" when I worked on Fear Factor after voluntarily being electrocuted. Maybe she got some residual electrical charge from that. Who knows. All I know is that I need to stay away from electronics for a bit.

My laptop hard drive took a shit!

Ask me how I feel about that!

It's October... so of course, LA is on fire.

Normally when I watch the fires I feel a little disconnected since they rarely come close to my friends or family, but this time, it is a little different. A very dear friend who took me in years ago and let me live with her is, as I write this, packing up her valuables and getting ready to evacuate. As always, the Santa Ana winds are wreaking havoc on the area and causing misery for the fire fighters. The Sesnon Fire is burning in the park behind her neighborhood right now and getting dangerously close to the houses. She is luckily a few streets in, but as we have all seen in the past, when one house goes up, it is hard to stop the rest of them from going as well. I'll update when I know more but for now all I can do is watch and hope that the winds shift in the right direction or die down enough to make handling this fire a little easier.

I love my husband.

I just had the greatest birthday ever and my husband helped make it all possible. I'll explain it all tomorrow, but for now, it's time to go to bed. I am exhausted.

Non-avoidance

Normally when I go for a walk at the beach, I avoid the area right where our street plops us on the boardwalk due to the ridiculous amount of guys there trying to hand out their music CD's or make you listen to their music. I don't have anything against self promotion (Lord knows I am horrible at it) but when you pass the same guys every day and every day they want you to listen to their music and take one of their CD's, it gets old. It's not a big deal to avoid them, but today, I have a cold, I feel like crap, I am in a daze and I missed the turn off that bypasses these "music" guys. I didn't realize it until I saw one of them shoving a pair of headphones on a poor unsuspecting and very pale tourist. I had my IPod on so I figured I was safe, but I was approached by an older guy who offered me his CD. I made sure I smiled as I quietly declined and instead of hassling me, he told me to have a great day and that I had a beautiful smile. Not that I thought he would hassle me because he had a very kind demeanor to him unlike the usual crowd, but that wasn't really the point. Today, feeling as crappy as I did, I really needed a total stranger to tell me I had a beautiful smile. It was as if something had steered me away from avoiding the "music" men just so someone could make my day. Sometimes being in a daze isn't a bad thing.

I am a good wife.

Jess's birthday present. So he can play "Call Of Duty" in style and be comfy too. I even managed to get it to match the couch.

We still love you!!

Even though the curse continues. Maybe it was a 100 year curse and maybe now it's finally over because that last game was painful. Next year Chicago. We'll still be there rooting you on like always. For now, get some rest, drink massive amounts of alcohol and enjoy some time with your families. Until next year! Go Cubbies!

IT'S RAINING IN LA!!!

And I am so excited!!

I am loosing my mind.

I spent all day yesterday thinking it was Wednesday and now today feels like Saturday. What is wrong with me??