funny thing

I went to work at my usual time Wednesday and while sitting at one of the 20 or so sets of traffic lights on my way I noticed the car in front of me's registration LH*****. I used to live in the same street as LH and although the car changes the reg does not!! Her husband was driving it today and as he does not really know me I did not wave or toot my horn! On my way home I went to Kohls to buy S's birthday present, what a deal $35 for 3 very smart pairs of cords! As I left Kohls, which is high up above P, there was a really beautiful sunset and I could see a hot air ballon floating over Blk Mntn. I made my way home and at the almost last set of lights before our house I noticed that the car in front of me was LH***** again!! Well I thought that was interesing. Oh and the hot air balloon had to make an emergency landing in the middle school's playing field right by the road.

two blogs in one day

When I got to work today I noticed that the tree outside my office window had been TP'd again!!
What a waste of time!! Three people have now had to spend a lot of time and effort getting all the tatty toilet paper off the highest branches and clear up the mess of paper and cardboard rolls left strewn around the grass.
Will post a photo it possible later.
Tchoh!!

vandalism

S leaves his car in a car park everyday and takes a van to work as part of a group of car sharing collegues from work. Just lately there has been a spate of vandalism and Friday it was his Volvo's turn along with 5 other cars. All had either their lights, mirrors or windows smashed. Some idiot had tried to smash the Volvo's front windscreen 8 times but was unable to do more that make a dent in the glass. What a waste of time. S phoned round and got a few quotes and ended up with a quote for $160 if we could get the Volvo there by 8:00am Saturday, so that was the end of any thought of a late start Saturday.

S wanted me to follow him down to the Glass repair shop incase the Volvo broke down, it's not terribly reliable for long trips, which is why he uses just to go to the car park. S is not one for keeping to the speed limits and so he bombed away down the free way. I was just beginning to lose track of him ( I keep to the speed limits!!) and thought if I don't get a bit more of a move on I'll lose him!! So started to speed up a bit when I noticed this Beemer appear in my rear view mirror out of nowhere and behind him a CHiP on a bike with the lights flashing! Talk about heart attack!! for a moment I thought the CHiP was after me but I saw him wave the Beemer over. Made me all shakey, talk about ironic if I got a ticket for speeding, the way I nag S about it when he's driving!
Anyway I did lose sight of S but luckily I had memorised the way to the repair shop and did'nt get lost. We got a new windscreen for the Volvo.
So now I have to get up at a very early hour to take S to catch his van poolride. I hope that now the kids are back to school the vandalism stops and S can start taking his car in the mornings again.

Fancy restaurant

J, A and his girlfriend and I went with S for his birthday dinner at a fancy restaurant on the boardwalk at Pacific Beach! It was the best!!

We got there just as the sun set and really enjoyed the ambience of the place. The food, presentation and service was all excellent. The dessert was chocolate heaven

My dd told her friends that she half expected the girls from Sex in the City to walk in it was such a cool place! (not our normal type of place at all!)

Thank goodness birthdays only come once a year!!

Back to work

After yesterday's torrential rain today dawned bright and clear so of course that means I'm back in the office!!
Sunday I went geocaching and found 2 of the 3 caches. The DNF was an older multi and although we found the first wp which was a card taped to the underneath of a rock in a mass of rocks, the second wp was well off the trail in another mass of rocks with many possible hiding places. I logged it as a note and received a nice e mail from the owner with a more detailed clue but as we felt we had searched every possible place it may well be missing altogether. The owner said she would walk the trail and check it was still there when the weather improved.
Monday S had to go to work so I had a very lazy day, watching the Rose parade while snugged up cosily in bed. Later I went out for lunch with J. We went to the Olive Garden. Then I did some scrapbooking, working on the challenges set by the cybercrop at my favourite online store.