November 2001

Thursday - November 29, 2001 
Since my original logo had too much of a summer look, I decided to make a new logo to celebrate this Holiday Season. I also changed the links and headline colors of the fonts to settle down the tone to have a snow feeling to it. Didn't you feel that chili breeze pass by when you opened up the website? hehe!  j/k ;)  Oh that reminds me, I also FINALLY updated the left bar where Methos' Interview has been. This area should be updated more frequently! I replaced it with a mini logo image to the new Female Gamers Alive section. The screenshot is originally from a chiQ skin for Slash (Quake III Arena Female Model). 

The past week here in San Diego has been so cold. I haven't been in a super happy mood from it. I have been wearing three sweaters and a heavy jacket at work. I work near the water so it's just super cold. I don't even recall Palo Alto (northern California) being that cold last year. :( 

Where I sleep at night the cold crawls in by the time I get home from work. I normally can handle it though. However, last night it was like 3 times colder so I had to go sleep near the heater. I also don't want to come down with the flu or anything, ya know? ;)  

As for my truck situation... I found out just yesterday that the driver was from Mexico (no wonder why he couldn't speak English very well). Reading the highway patrol report, he also didn't have any insurance. What does this mean about all of us three (3) cars who didn't DO ANYTHING wrong that day but get pushed into each other? Dunno yet. I'll know most likely once my insurance company gets back with me. The nice thing about them is how they said they were going to everything they could to fight and get the money somehow. I don't want to have to end up paying for almost 3,000 worth of damage. In fact, I don't want to pay ANYTHING. It wasn't my fault, I shouldn't have to pay for some else. :(  So the insurance company did say they had ways of getting that money back and they planned to use them. Ruh roh.... ;)

Last night my friend and I ended up getting lost in Santee (South East San Diego area). I knew EXACTLY where I was but we got lost trying to find our friend's house we were going to. It ended up being a wild goose chase so we finally went to my brother's place to ask him where they were meeting.  

I found out from my brother that we had some OLD address. I was driving my friend crazy because she was originally hungry before we left and us getting lost made her even more hungry so I felt bad and went through my brother's refrigerator while he was printing out the directions. He had nothing! Not even bread so I looked around his living room and noticed some miniature bell shaped butterfingers. 

I literally ran to the car, she saw me in the distance and started goofing off, honking the horn at me. Then I jumped into the car (rental car.. argh.. I hate cars! I miss my truck) and I give her the 4-5 little Butterfinger candies. That helped a little. Most of you guys know how us girls get when we haven't ate anything that day. One word to describe it is CRANKY. 

There was another funny thing that happened last night. We left our friend's house and I took her to Burger King to get her something to eat. We went through the drive thru because it was after 10pm. I had the giggles out of no where... and we started this little play argument... then I started laughing again. The guy is trying to take our order and I am trying to talk right so I ask her to order because I can't. 

She says in a giggly yet crackly voice, "can you wait just a minute?" 

Finally I snap out of it and order a strawberry shake and a whopper junior with NO SAUCE as she requested. Then I couldn't help but add in (without her consent).. extra onions.  She slapped me in the arm and grinned. 

I told her, "April, it's not like you're going anywhere else tonight! I wouldn't have done it if we were going any where else right now. I just had to ask for extra onions," laughing hysterically. 

She laughs then comments, "yeah, I know.. I'll take the ones I don't want out." Then she started picking through her hamburger while I was driving. It was LOADED with sauce. Come to find out what we ordered wasn't done. That is pretty typical for a fast food chain to just grab it off the pre-made ones and stuff it in the bag without doing what the customer requested. :/

Sunday - November 25, 2001 
Last night was an interesting night. I finally got home at almost 1am. I ended up going to a PRE-Christmas party at around 3pm. My best friend and I ended up watching The Christmas Story about the kid who wanted a Red Robin Bee Bee Gun. That how you spell it? We played Brazilian UNO once that movie was over. 

By 5:30 some of us took off from the crowd to go see this Potter's Field Ministry show. It was simply amazing. I haven't been so interested in such terms he talked about in ages. Afterwards we went back to the place we were before. We ended up watching Touched by an Angel and by the time it was around 10:15, they put on the Grinch movie so that kept us stuck there until early morn. :/ 

Thursday - November 22, 2001 
I hope you all had a nice day today. I was invited to go to a football tag at 9am in the morning by some of my friends but couldn't go because the turkey dinner with my brother's fiance was early.  I was pretty tired from staying out late, teaching my friend to make a website but I did set my alarm to wake me up at 8am to call him to say I couldn't make it. I kept clicking SNOOZE that morning from being so tired. I am so glad he called at around 8:50 to make sure I was going so I could tell him I couldn't.

Didn't do too much but desire to sleep today. Trying to fight that from eating turkey was a hassle. I ate around 1 pm. Then by 2pm  I got through it with time and yawning. Then I took a 20 minute nap around 5pm and woke up pretty hungry but very awake. I made myself a small turkey sandwich and pretty much felt satisfied until an hour later!? :(  Then I was sleepy again. I had this talk with Milla about it. She kept laughing at me from whining so much the second time around. I told her I might have just needed to get to sleep early since I had a long day with my brother's future relatives. hehe :)  Then I told her how I eat the processed turkey from time to time even at work and never get THIS tired. That just shows how much PROCESSED that turkey is I guess. lol ;)  

Any ways, I did have a nice time with my brother's fiancé's family this Thanksgiving. My mom even came so it was really nice. The only thing, I missed my mom's awesome stuffing. She always has olives in it so that was missing. 

What was pretty cool was how my brother's fiancé made a dirt cake. It was in a pot with fake flowers sticking out. At first when she placed it on the table I had to look at it a few times. Later after we let our stomach's relax from the huge turkey meal, she dished everyone out a bowl. Man, this was THE best thing I have had in years. It had VERY fine Oreo crumbs from my brother grinding them so it was also powdery. Then there was the creamy pudding. I asked her what it was because I haven't ever tasted something so creamy. She said it was vanilla pudding, cream cheese and cool whip. Her grandma took a picture so maybe I'll ask them if I can scan the pics when they are developed. ;) 

Any ways, Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Wednesday - November 21, 2001 
Tonight I went with my best friend to get some coffee, then we to her church. Afterwards, I went to her place to teach her some html stuff. She wants to create her own website so I spent a couple of hours showing her some thing. Next, I need to teach her how to use Adobe Photoshop. :) 

Tuesday - November 20, 2001 
This month has went by too fast. I still haven't had any changes on my truck yet. Yes, I have been driving it to work and back since I had the accident. It hasn't been too much fun. :( Right now I am waiting on the Highway Patrol officer to write up the whole collision so I can prove that it wasn't my fault in the accident. This meaning, I can't get my rental car so I can drive back and forth to work. My insurance doesn't cover rental car for some reason. 

Sunday - November 11, 2001   
Guess what? I am so ticked off. I woke up this morning and my truck's clear plastic was torn down. I walked out there thinking maybe the wind blew it but how could it be SOOO torn across, ya know? 

As I walked up my heart started racing. Then I looked through my window and saw my car stereo still there. I realized the night before after I got back from hanging out with my friends late that night I didn't take off the stereo face. :(  So my stereo was still there! I thought to myself, hey.. I am just overreacting... no one crawled in through the window. Then I noticed my glove department was open and my side arm rest where my CD's are were open too! :(  My heart was pounding so hard I could hear it in my ears. 

Finally I went to the other side of the door and noticed the door was unlocked and wasn't closed all the way. Argh! I looked around to see what they were looking for. I noticed my blush was on the ground. I recalled that being my ONLY item in my make-up purse. It was a make-up purse I grabbed from storage few days before and I was going to bring it in to use.

So, this person took an EMPTY black make-up purse? Then they took my check card that was in my drink holder area. That thing is about 5 years old of not being used. I found it on the floor at the storage I had and never had the chance to cut it with scissors. I guess I don't have to now. 

That was the only two things that was taken from my car. Very odd, don't you think? The strange thing about this all, this person didn't ever try to do anything to my car until I bashed out the edged glass in my car. I did this Saturday around noon.  I think they knew it could have cut them if they tried climbing in before hand. They must have been watching and waiting for it.  

I should have just kept the edge glass up there to cut anyone from trying to crawl in? I guess the term of my old friend Mirl is right. "Locks are to keep honest people honest."  With the window being bashed in, it wasn't locked in general. There was practically an open door for them to SEE if I had money or something else they desired. 

Friday - November 9, 2001 
I finally got my Palm Pilot VIIx working. My brother gave me his older one last February but I was waiting on him to give me the software to install on my computer. Finally after ten months go by he gave me this url to download. Now if he did that months ago I would have been a happy girl but I guess I wouldn't have been so infatuated with the Palm as I am at the moment, right? ;)  Any ways, I logged in lots of important dates for this year. Hmm, that reminds me, I need to add holidays yet. Oops! Can't forget those. Oh, as for my truck situation... I didn't give you all an update on what happened. You can check out the info in my photo album along with some pictures. By the way, Happy Birthday to my brother, DarkViper!

Wednesday - November 7, 2001 
Ok, well I should have had the headline as Shattered by ... huh? So much has been going on behind scenes as of late. I ended up getting in a car accident this Monday. I have to get up at 5 AM tomorrow morning so I'll keep this short as possible. More talk here means less time sleeping right now. teehee!  I'll post the details in the next day or so in my photo album so keep an eye out for it. I have to get up early to take pictures so I have proof for the insurance company. I haven't had a chance to vacuum the glass that shattered on my truck back window yet.