dammit.. i can't believe i lost.. and that crazy crack whore won, with fake promises and gimmicks.. that she stole from me! man.. now i know how cruz bustamante feels. wait.. i want a RECALL!! - i think it would be appropriate seeing as how this is a california poll :)

i feel like the weekend passed too fast. it's monday already and i can't wait for friday, well thursday is nice too.. i'm excited for thursday. :)

last wednesday was the freak storms in california. it was pretty awesome... yes yes, i know, we californians are wimps when it comes to weather and crap like that. but right after the fires, the weather freaks out. i guess it's weather karma from it being super sunny and 80-90 degrees all the way through october. wednesday where i was it hailed for a short bit at 3pm, and at 5pm when i got off work the skies looked little gray.. as i drove west i saw a little orange as the sun was setting near the beach and behind me there was lighting in the sky.. it was cool. i heard on the radio about the freaky weather in all different parts, raining and flooding in some parts and beautiful sunsets in the other. when i got home i watched the news with my dad (because the weather was the ONLY thing on tv) and saw that parts of la were flooded and since we're not equipped for that amount of rain in the first hour or so the 3 inches of rain managed to completely shut down la. it was interesting and we ended up getting a little bit of rain, lightning and thunder.. but nothing too bad in torrance :) although the lightning did strike my phone line and caused our line to die, which we didn't discover until thursday and didn't get fixed until wednesday. so i apologize if you tried to reach me and couldn't. (not that any does... ever.)

thursday i had my play and carrie, benji, keri and jerrod came.. yay!!! i do have friends. thanks for coming guys! they said they enjoyed it, so i'm glad, and keri brought me flowers!! yay!!! she loves me. even though i'm not really on stage, it's cool that they came to see the play, and i'm really glad that they liked it and had a good time :) afterwards benji and i went to the cat and fiddle afterwards which is like the post play hang out and just sat, chit chatted, benji attempted to hit on a girl he thought was hot and ate some yummy dinner.

friday i went to souplantation with my daddy.. he loves that place. but it was fun going out to dinner with him and just hanging out with him. for the last few weeks i felt so distant from him.. it sucked. like i felt like we never really talked and all he did was yell at me.. and just always seemed really angry, but i think things are better now. not that we ever really talk about anything real.. but it's just nice to know that i'm not going to get yelled at by him on a daily basis. he was always one of those people that never really got mad a lot, but when he did get mad he would get really really really mad.. like when he left for new york. we had this huge fight and it sucked. but he changed offices so he works in my sister's area, so he goes to her office sometimes to have lunch with her, and my sister showed him my unfinished trailer.. and she said it was really good and he said he liked it too. he didn't really get what it was about because he didn't know what the project was about, but i feel like he was impressed. enough to mention to me that he saw it. and its weird because that meant SO much to me. like my parents were never super interested in anything that did.. outside of the obligatory things that i made them go to like my band concerts and when i was in the musical, but like when i played sports my dad would sometimes come to games.. or like when i was doing circle k my parents would always complain about how i was doing too much "key club" stuff and what not. and they've never really seen/heard any of my projects that i've done. like, it's not a huge deal, and i feel kind of like a brat whining about it, but it mattered to me that people take interest in things that i'm interested in. SO ANYWAYS.. sorry for this long winded tangent (with no mention of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches BY THE WAY ;P...) i'm really happy that my sister showed it to him, and that he liked it and showed some amount of interest... it made me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.

but i do feel like maybe one of the reasons why i'm a daddy's girl is because i'm kinda a tomboy in the sense that i liked sports and i liked to wrestle with my dad and stuff like that. i think that my dad (like all dads) probably was sad that he didn't get a son.. we were in sportmart the other day buying stuff for the greatest softball team in the world and he wanted to buy this wooden bat.. and

me: what are you going to do with a bat?
my daddy: yea.. i'm going to buy it and teach my kids how to play baseball.
me: what? huh? what kids are you going to teach.
my daddy: i'll adopt some kids and teach them how to play

it was cute in a depressing kind of way. like it's one of those things that you're totally grateful for things you have, but yet you wish you still had that one thing that's missing.

so yea.. anyways.. saturday sakura and i drove out to the wrong side of the tracks .. the boonies.. CHINO hills because nicole bribed us, and carrie, with free food and chocolate and whined about how she couldn't go anywhere because her car was sad. but it was a lot of fun, we played with her oh so cute puppy, ate yummy yummy food, made fun of each other, watched tv and sappy girly movies. we tried to watch skinemax and find the soft porn, but we only caught the end of "passion's peak" and all the good stuff already happened. i really wanted to know what happened with the stripper who was trying to rebuild her life so she renovated a hotel. umm.. yea.. i'm not making this stuff up people. it was fun, and the food was yummerific and the company was great. thanks to the girls - and carlene and sonny.. you guys rock :)

yesterday was the waffles first big game! whoo hoo!! too bad we lost. :( it's okay.. we let them win.. ahah yup. we let them win by sucking. just kidding. it was our first game and we didn't really know what it was going to be like. and we'll play them again and kick their asses cuz we know what our faults are and what we need to work on. it was also the first time we met as a whole team.. so we have to get that chemistry thing going too. but it'll be good.. i can feel it :) i just have to get this slow-pitch thing down (the arch needs to be 8-12 feet and land on a mat behind home base for it to be a strike.. hmm.) and we need to fill the holes in our outfield and beth needs to go to the batting cages to catch balls :) i also need to learn how to not giggle in the middle of the game. but i like to laugh at what a dumb ass i am. :P highlights of our first game include

*me running in to the large and in charge guy standing on first base and bouncing off him like he was a rubber wall and getting this huge scrape on my leg (there's something about me and getting knocked down by huge fat guys when i play for ryan skophammer)

*this girl running into beth (at home plate) because she didn't slide (thus her getting out) and so this girl fell down and beth felt bad and tried to help her up and she said "don't touch me" (i would have smacked her beth) and our whole team yelling "yea beth!!! great job!!"

*right before that happened i caught the ball, turned around and threw the ball to beth - but i lost my balance, so i immediately fell after that and rolled around in the dirt - missing watching beth's heroic moment. damn. i also felt like an ass and the guy from the other team asked me "what was that" and i just said "i have no idea" in the midst of my fits of giggles

*this girl hitting a grounder right to me, i caught it, but then proceeded to play popcorn with it, the ball jumped around and i fumbled (huh.. wrong sport? no.) and dropped the ball and let the girl on base. yup.. i'm good. giggles attacked me here too.

*us being up by a run in the second inning.. too bad that wasn't the end of the game.

and last but certainly not least..

*the BEST TEAM MOM/PHOTOGRAPHER/TREASURER IN THE WHOLE WORLD brought us cut up oranges for our after game snack. she not only sliced the oranges, but also sliced the fruit part from the peel so it would be less messy in eating them. WOW. sakura rocks my socks off.

after the game jill, sakura, beth and i went to rocky cola cafe for our post game celebratory (?? can you call it that if you lost??) dinner. we shared the wings and things #1 appetizer - which included chicken wings, zucchini sticks, buffalo wings and we subsituted the onion rings for garlic fries - and came with celery and carrots and ranch, honey mustard and bleu cheese (which we asked for another ranch) and then shared the chocolate skyscraper cake, with whip cream and two scoops of vanilla ice cream on the side. and we all drank ice water. (are you happy now holiday?)