Wednesday, March 10, 2004

It's starting to feel a lot like summer

Yeah, I know that I live in San Diego and California has practically perpetual summer. It is still weird though when just last week I was wearing a scarf and battling torrential rain and today I am sitting here with bright sunlight filtering into my office. The announcers calling the Padres spring training game is droning in the background. People are coming to work bronzed after spending all weekend at the beach. When I come home, I can hear the kids splashing at the pool. It looks like summer, feels like summer, tastes like summer -- and it is still winter! I think I will never get used to this. And I am native Californian. I think that I am observing more as I grow older and this lends to my amazement about these things.

I have a new EEEEEEE! T.V. crush. Don't ask me why but I love Jon Peter Lewis on American Idol. Actually, ask me why. Because he is cute, unpretentious, funny, cute, and I love his deep voice. I literally "EEEEEE!" 'd when his clip was played on the radio this morning. And I voted like a devoted fangirl last night. *hangs head* I need a life.

Along with the advent of our pseudo-summer comes the wave of blushing brides. I HATE this time of year. Why? Because I want to BE one of those brides. Five years I have wanted to be one of those brides. I hate pressuring HammieLove about it. It makes me so sad though. Am I not pretty/nice/thin/clean enough to marry? Am I not a good enough cook? (That's not it-- I am a great cook!) HL has some issues to get over before he pops the question, this I know. But FIVE years?

So I tided myself over and bought bridal magazines last night. I AM an event planner so I have to keep up with trends.

Really, I wanted to look at the pretty dresses.
Just so you know? It was 85 degrees here yesterday.
I had the air-conditioning on.

And you thought I was paying $2.19/gallon of gas for nothing. Heh.

Thursday, March 04, 2004

I don't understand people who protest. Protest being with signs, megaphones, and whistles. Maybe I am lacking social conscience or awareness or whatever but I simply don't get it. When has a protest ever changed anything? Now, I am not talking Rosa Parks, or the black college students that would do sit ins. I am not talking suffragettes. I am talking people who have nothing better to do than sit around with handmade signs and yell catchy chants about "books not bombs". What EXACTLY does that do to change the world?

The gay marriage movement is sweeping the country. Unlike many of my conservative compatriots, I totally support this. No second class citizenry! But they are DOING something! There may have been a time where people just sat around with signs and megaphones, I'm not really sure, but now they are taking action. I support and understand action.

What I do not support and what I do not understand is the group of maybe 30 college students that just marched under my window, stopping traffic, surrounded by 10 police officers. Why are you disrupting my work day? Why are you causing a distraction to drivers, causing at least one fender bender? Why are you taking these officers off the streets where they should be fighting crime, not protecting you from people who might disagree enough to take action?

Are you doing this to remind me that there is a war going on? I don't need reminding, since my brother is overseas right now fighting the war on terrorism. I don't need reminding since every generation in my family has sent men to die to protect that right to protest. It is a free country because of all those bombs and I acknowledge that.

My question to the protesters is this: What do you do when you lay down your sign? What do you do when the chants die down? Are you taking any ACTION besides screaming loudly at "The Man?"

I have a feeling a lot of these kids are chanting to be part of the cause. I think that if all they are doing is chanting, then they are part of the problem.

Wednesday, March 03, 2004

There's a sucker born every minute!

And you are looking at one. Color me crazy but I cannot WAIT to get my hands on some Trim Spa! I mean, have you SEEN
Anna Nicole? I know that a lot of that probably had to do with a lot of trainers and professionally cooked food (how I would LOVE to have my food delivered to me...I am looking at you, TVJ) but still, she looks GREAT!

Maybe it will have a placebo effect on me.

"I HAVE to go work out. I am on Trim Spa."

Or maybe I will be so twacked out that I will work out instead of sleep.

Sometimes I wish HammieLove would break up with me so I could lose the 60 pounds I have gained since we started dating. (SIXTY?!? No wonder he won't marry me...)