Hello Tiffy!

One of my favorite console games - Animal Crossing - was just released for the Wii and I have been addicted for days! I highly recommend the game Animal Crossing it is very cute, rated G and all around fun. However, I warn you that without the Wi-Fi hooked up it is not as fun. Half of the fun is having friends, and trading your items, and you catch fish and grow plants and as lame as it sounds, it is full of goals and is oh-so fun. Up to 4 players can live in the same town so it is a really good family/couples game. I am super addicted and luckily, an old co-worker of mine is playing so we are sending money and items back and forth it is tons of fun. The best!

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone. I really hope it was awesome for you. We had 2 Thanksgivings this year. A close friend of ours invited us for dinner with her family and we spent the day there and we had a great time. J’s work provided the people that were working today with a Boston Market Thanksgiving Feast so technically J gets 3 Thanksgivings today! the bastard! Just kidding. He went to work for a few hours and nibbled a bit. Then he came home and we went to our friend M’s house. We had some great food and watched some football and chatted it up. After that, we came home, where I am heating up the turkey now. We won’t be eating dinner #2 (or #3) until about 10:30 tonight but we are both anxious. Our friend didn’t provide a few of our traditional favorites, and I had baked a green bean casserole which I MUST HAVE AT THANKSGIVING.. at some time during the day. So I baked that earlier, I considered bringing it to M’s house but I thought eh, I will eat it for our 2nd dinner and it is going to be soooooooo good too. We are also having cornbread stuffing, turkey and gravy and we got some pies (pumpkin and apple) from Marie Callendar’s restaurant. In a way I was kind of glad that M’s house didn’t have the few things we long for. It will make our 2nd dinner extra special.

Ahhh Thanksgiving, now to get stuffed! Damn work tomorrow!

I grew up in a little town called Novato and they have some really good Police Blotters… usually they are so hilarious because not many things go on there so the things they mention are normally pretty minor but these are my favorite that I have seen in a while. Now honestly I have to say this will make Novato sound really bad, and ghetto, and stupid… but they are all from the Novato Advance paper. I really can’t believe how good some of these are…..

Friday, November 14

8:35 a.m. A woman took beer and ran away from a store in the 1000 block of
Grant Ave. The store employee said that the woman is named “Jackie” and
she comes in often. The employee promised to call police next time she
came in.

12:34 p.m. The storeowner in the 1100 block of Grant
made good on his promise and called police after Jackie returned and
stole a beer. Police caught her and told her she is no longer welcome
at the store; the employee didn’t want to press charges.

2:13 p.m A San Marin High School student who appeared to be high on marijuana was admonished and released to his stepmother.

3:36 p.m. Jackie returned to the store in the 1100 block of Grant and stole three beers and ran away.

Thursday, November 13

6:30 a.m. A man and a woman were screaming at each other and causing things
to go thump at a residence in the 1500 block of South Novato Boulevard.
The dispute was verbal only.

8:15 a.m. Graffiti was left on a ball court at Pleasant Valley Elementary School.

1:53 p.m. A 15-year-old boy was suspected of shoplifting from a business in
the 100 block of San Marin Drive and even his mother wanted him cited,
but police found there was no merit to the charge; the clerk didn’t
witness the shoplifting and she stopped the youth before he got to the
cash register.

3:32 p.m. A burglar got in through the doggie
door of a garage at a home in the 20 block of Terry Circle and stole a
32-inch Panasonic LCD TV valued at $1,800.

Wednesday, November 12

2:58 a.m. Police were called when a patient refused to sign discharge papers
at Novato Community Hospital saying that “he was more sick now than
when he was first admitted.”

8:59 a.m. A caller reported that a man was taking garbage out of his vehicle
and disposing it in a public trashcan. Police didn’t find any
violations.

7:36 p.m. A resident complained that prostitutes are
taking their clients to a turnaround area in the 100 block of Marina
Valley Drive and then the resident has to pick up the used condoms
afterward.

Tuesday, November 11

12:40 a.m. A man said that someone threw a pumpkin at his vehicle when he was driving in the 700 block of Arthur Street.

1:17 a.m. Police asked a man who was sleeping in front of a business in the 900 block of Diablo Avenue to move along.

7:57 a.m. A caller feared that a man lying down by the side of Novato
Boulevard had suffered a seizure. Police cited and released the man for
being drunk in public.

9:26 a.m. Someone left the graffiti “poet” in silver spray paint in the 1500 block of South Novato Boulevard.

1:46 p.m. A woman in the 700 block of Cherry Street called police in tears
because a youthful male relative was spraying her with water in a
disrespectful fashion.

5:47 p.m. A man called from a pay phone
in Miwok Park and reported that he had been raped an hour an earlier by
another man in some bushes behind a gas station in the 7400 block of
Redwood Boulevard. Several police responded, but during an interview
the caller admitted that the sex had been consensual.

9:21 p.m. A 14-year-old girl on Pebble Beach Drive called to report that her
father had attacked her. But the man told police he held the girl down
after she attacked him when he confronted her about dating a 22
year-old-man.

Monday, November 10

12:12 a.m. Someone set garbage on fire in the street in front of San Marin High School.

7:55 a.m. A 90-year-old man with dementia who was wearing diapers and
nothing else was returned to his home in the 20 block of Buena Vista by
police.

8:58 p.m. A Hathaway Drive caller’s son
reportedly saw a triangular unidentified flying object while walking
the dog. The youth drew a sketch of the UFO. Police gave advice to the
caller along with the phone number to the Federal Aviation
Administration.

Sunday, November 9

6:53 a.m. Police took a man in the 800 block of Diablo who was yelling to the psychiatric unit at Marin General Hospital.

9:10 a.m. Someone complained about construction work going on between
Hangars 7 and 9 in Hamilton. But the workers had permission from the
city to work after 9 a.m. on Sundays.

8:51 p.m. Police disposed of what the police log described as a “cardboard
raccoon” left in the middle of the street in the 100 block of San
Andreas Drive. A caller said that four teens placed it there. Police
were unable to locate the youths.

11:34 p.m. A man who lives in
the 800 block of Diablo Avenue promised to stop playing the video game
“Rock Band” for the night after a caller complained about the noise.

Saturday, November 8

1:19 a.m. Police arrested a 42-year-old woman on possession of drugs and
drug paraphernalia charges after she called them to say that her ex ran
over her foot with his truck during a dispute.

4:38 p.m. A caller reported that a woman got out of a limousine with three
other people and was lying on her back on the ground while crying.
Police discovered that the woman, who had been drinking wine, was upset
because her boyfriend didn’t go on the limo trip with her. Everyone got
back inside the limo and drove off.

10:39 p.m. Parents called
police because their son was at a candy store on Grant Avenue the
previous evening and another youth, or youths, put him in a headlock,
pushed him to the ground and put a cigarette butt into his mouth.

Friday, November 7

3:55 p.m. A woman in the 2000 block of
Feliz Road called police because her daughter was throwing and breaking
things because she wasn’t allowed to go to a fight at San Marin High
School. The woman called an hour later to report that her daughter was
grabbing a knife.

Thursday, November 6

7:50 a.m. A caller
alerted police that a homeless man had shown up in a tent in the 1600
block of Hill Road. But the tent was empty when police arrived.

9:14 p.m. Police helped a woman in the 1000 block of Fourth Street look for
her home’s circuit breaker box after the lights went out in certain
rooms. They weren’t able to find it, possibly because it was in a
roommate’s locked bedroom.

Wednesday, November 5

12:08 p.m. A man brought an unloaded shotgun to Novato police headquarters because he wanted it disposed of.

4:13 p.m. A woman in the 1000 block of Sunset Parkway called police to report that
she had her telescope focused on three teens who were rolling
cigarettes using material from a plastic baggie near Lynwood School.
Police were unable to locate the youths when they arrived on scene.

5:13 p.m. A Sinaloa Court resident told police that a man entered her home
uninvited and said that he had an appointment to check her light bulbs.
He asked her for her Social Security number.

5:24 p.m. A San Luis Way resident called police to report that three youths were
smoking in an open space area. The caller was concerned about fire
danger.

6:10 p.m. Police discovered that a Center Road resident who had called 911 and hung up
wasn’t in danger. The man was highly intoxicated and had dialed 911 by
mistake.

Life wasn’t bad today. That’s a good thing. J booked our tickets to Kentucky for Christmas (we are spending 5 days at his mom’s new house). I will be dreading every moment until we get on the plane. I don’t dread being there, I just dread getting there. I hate flying, planes make me assume I am dead the moment I step on. Oh I hope I am still blogging after December 29. If you promise I will live through the trip, please comment and say “You will live”. Don’t worry if you don’t want to lie, and promise something that may not be factual. If I die I won’t hold it against you :P. Just encourage me to go by promising that I will live. Thanks for your support.

So I arrive at work this morning and I see two forensic crime scene trucks out front. I was really worried, but it turns out my office got broken into over night and several things were stolen, including monitors and tons of game consoles and computers from a few people’s desks, and lots of other stuff. Luckily, the intruders did not seem to touch my desk at all, even though I had the same nice wide screen monitors just like the ones that were stolen. What a freaky morning. Even though it was my work and not my house it still feels very scary and  I feel just as violated.

@_@

Today was pretty blah, nothing comes to mind that was too exciting. After the refrigerator fiasco yesterday of course I had nothing for lunch today so I went to Burger King and did alright. I got a Tendergrill (AKA Grilled Chicken) sandwich and some Apple Fries and a Diet coke! There was mayo on the sandwich but I think I will live though it. A friend of mine thinks the BK Apple Fries taste like they are dipped in formeldahyde, but actually, I think they are quite delectable, they are also extremely cute, cut into frie shapes and they are kinda yellowish, I would be fooled (considering my current state of eyesight I could be fooled by just about anything). We all know apples taste alright but these are actually really crispy and juicy and delicious. Not sure how they do it but who knows, maybe it is because they are peeled and air-sealed fresh. There is also something about someone else cutting your veggies and fruits for you, pre-cut fruit is big business and you feel like you are 5 again which is always special

I really want to go shopping and buy some new clothes but I keep putting it off until I lose a few lbs, so we will see. I want to work out again soooo badly I was doing great when I lived in CA but it just harder here and..  I would rather go spend time with J if I am going to put off work instead of go to the gym (it isn’t like I want to anyway, don;’t get me wrong - but if I am going to put off work I want to be with him instead). I also find I am tired here and sleep way too much. I feel extremely unhealthy and want to do a lifestyle change I am just too lazy yet. J hinted that he wants to go to the gym I want to go with him if he goes. Maybe we will see, I have heard this frm him before. I guess I am not the only one that has trouble getting on the right foot.

Oh, right now I am being entertained (oh I mean possibly bored to death) by World Series of Poker. The game isn’t bad to play, and not all that bad to watch sometimes but I am so damn tired this is not helping. You know Austin isn’t all that bad in general but I am telling you I would enjoy life a lot more with just one job. I guess that goes without saying, but I am just feeling ragged. Ragged ragged ragged. I feel guilty at almost all times, I mean I should be working 24 7 in my opinion how dare I enjoy dinner away from my computer, or consider talking to my best friend instead of work. I just want to take a week off ya know? My last day off that was officially a day I was not expected to work (not including the moving days which I drove, or moved stuff, or unpacked stuff) was August 2007. Ever since then I was at the start up which we did not get days off. then working from home which, well, every day I should be doing at least a little something and now I am contracting as well which well I basically get no paid days off. I miss days off. Yes I do slack from time to time — but since I get to spend my slack time feeling guilty it really doesn’t count in my opinion. I even feel guilty in my sleep. Speaking of sleep.. I think I will go feel guilty now….

1. fridge at work lost power over weekend and lost all my bfasts and lunches in freezer
2. had taco bell triple steak burrito for lunch instead
3. Felt sick
4. came home from work….

5. Went to Carrabba’s with Jay & Monica. Gay waiter was funny and nice. Also gave me bread and oil and herbs to take home w/o asking. Good tip
for him.

So I get to work and the fridge somehow lost power over the weekend. So, about 20 dollars of frozen breakfasts and lunches have spoiled, and I am starving. Not happy AND my pumpkin coffee creamer too….

1) Thank god, I was thinking if McCain somehow won I would have to shut down my blog.
2) Fox News is congratulating Obama as if they wanted him to win. They have all their PC comments in order as if they had to rehearse them for hours just in case.
3) I am so proud of my country right now. There was something exciting in the air during the day and it increased as it got darker outside. People are excited, the energy is literally felt in the air even when you are alone. Go out and feel it!
4) Thank god thank god thank god.
5) I don’t mean to get biblical but seriously this is such a fucking amazing day in our lives.
6) I am just seriously relieved and excited. I now just sit and wait about prop 8. Then I can go to bed.
7) Need beer.

The next time I talk to you, Obama will have been elected as the next president of the United States.