3-20-10 Saturday (Top of the World)

Today’s high is supposed to be 80.  We’ll need to enjoy that since tomorrow is rain.  Ugh.  I’m sure the warm temps combined with rain will make more blooms and growth.  I just love the air here.  It smells crisp and clean.  Light and airy.  Yay.

I’m beginning to love it here.  I’m already at a like status.  I actually like the weather.  Maybe I just like that it’s all “different” than Florida?  Hmmmm, I’m not sure yet.  Jim was bummed yesterday.  He was having a homesick feeling.  It’s a rough feeling, ya know?  Quick, someone come for a visit!  Take it from Jodi – the guest bed is comfy!  AND you know what, I might just have perfected Towel Origami.  

We relocated to Palm Springs.  We held up traffic in the middle of an intersection due to an overly wide turn.  We had some other MISadventures on this day.  Click here to read all about it.

Back to reality.  We drove to Statesville to pickup the MoHo.  Using a BOGO coupon, we ate lunch at a Mexican restaurant.  Yes, we did that last weekend at Charanda.  This weekend we went to Cozumel Mexican Restaurant.  I think it was the worst Mexican food we’ve ever had. 

 

We picked up the MoHo without incident and returned it to the storage facility.  We put it in a different spot that was surrounded on either side by big box trucks.

I have a rant about 2 footed drivers.  I don’t like ‘em.  These people don’t realize that the slightest pressure on the brake pedal causes the brake lights to come on.  When they stay on, it’s as bad as not having brake lights since we can’t tell when you’re really braking or not.  Quit it!  I’ve said to Jim on many occasion that I’d politely flag one of these morons down and tell them there’s something wrong with their brake lights.  Very innocently of course.   We and he were about level to one another at a traffic light so I put down my window and pointed to the driver like there was a problem.  The guy stared at me with his mouth open.  I made a rolling the window down gesture.  He put his window down.  I said, “There’s something wrong with your brake lights – they’re staying on.”  He replied, “That’s because I put them on.”  He totally sounded like he was a special needs person.  I think he specially needed to not drive.  He looked and sounded like an uncartooned version of Chris from Family Guy.  His dumb reply angered me which made me mimic him in a child like manner and then call him a moron.  I did.  I was bad.  It felt so good.

I don’t think I ever blogged about the guy I yelled at from throwing his cigarette wrapper on the ground while being 15 feet away from a trash can.  Some day I will.  I’m just thinking that sometimes, I get my fill of litterers, of people who think the world is their ashtray, of 2 foot drivers, etc.  What bugs you enough that you want stand up to someone but never do?

Tonight for dinner we had a blind date couples meeting.  Huh?  Well, a couple of weeks ago I posted an ad seeking other couples to go to dinner with.  See a movie.  See a play.  Go camping.  Tonight was dinner with Jonathan and Rick.  We met at Bravo!, an Italian restaurant.  For those of you who are anti-chain restaurants, this was a chain.  We’d never heard of it or eaten at one.  We met at the restaurant located at the Northlake Mall.  The food was good, we talked, we laughed and then we walked the mall a little bit until it closed (at 9).  We said our farewells and off we went.  It was a great night and hopefully we’ll get together again soon! 

The flowering trees and bushes are quite frankly amazing.  It’s beginning to be spectacular here.  Even in our neighborhood, almost every home has a flowering white tree in it’s yard. 

Here’s a slideshow of miscellaneous photos from today.  Most are of Dasher.  I was trying out some cool photography angles.