I am a short look back...

I went to the Happiest Place on Earth w/ the bubs a little while back. Here's our picture at the "O" of California. What's funny is that I went a couple years ago with a friend of mine and we were meeting my cousin between Calfornia Adventure and Disneyland and he said to meet at the "C" of Calfiornia. But I totally thought he meant SEA of California. I was asking around where this SEA was and no one knew what I was talking about. We finally go out of California adventure and SEE it..., it was quite funny, but you probably had to be there. Anyway, Disneyland w/ the bubster was awesome. We had a terrific time and she got to go on all the rides she wanted to, except for Indiana Jones, which was closed up until 4 and by that time, the line was 2 hours long and fast pass said 11PM. She didn't last til 8:45....wanted to go home and completely knocked out in the car.

Is it really only Tuesday? My mind is in college summer mode, but I'm definitely not in college anymore. In fact, it's been about 12 years since I started college...KRIKEY. I soooooo haven't felt like working lately. And it's not like usual where I'm just blah...it's like, I want to be on vacation. Okay, maybe that's the same thing...but the bottom line is I'd rather be sittin at home, runnin errands, workin out, or doing ANYTHING other than work. I still need to work on some of my other goals for this year...and I know, I have to MAKE the damn time to work on the things I want to. Maybe it is just a rut. I'd close my eyes and just zone away for a bit, but I'm in a meeting, and I've already gotten in trouble for sleeping in meetings, he he he.

Of the dream life...
Everyone has weird dreams. They don't always, actually...strike that...they almost never... make sense. As usual, I have these dreams constantly, and I can remember them quite clearly at times. Usually, they kinda slip away like water in your hands right when I wake up....but this dream happened about a week ago...
...I was walking in a mall...and for some reason, there was no gun control wherever I was at(I was recently in AZ - where AZ residents are allowed to even carry concealed weapons, or non-concealed for that matter) - So maybe it was AZ. Anyway, so in the mall, I'm talking to someone, and I say, "I can't even believe there's no gun control here, that trips me out." All of the sudden, some gangbanger dude jumps in front of me and says, "This is gun control." and lifts up his shirt, showcasing a 22mm pistol(Tommy wasn't in the dream, so he probably could've described the gun more specifically.) Anyway, he seems to be peeved that I do not agree w/ the whole gun tolerance thing and immediately starts to try to pick a fight with me. I simply tell him that I didn't want any trouble and that I was just shopping. So he backs up and starts shooting at my feet, so I'm dodging them, like they do in the movies or in cartoons. I'm dancing around fearing for my life as bullets are bouncing off of the floor. One of them grazes my jeans and shreds a piece right off. He's just laughing maniacally the entire time. So he asks me if I'm through, and I say, "What?" "You offended me man, you better apologize," he says. And I'm thinkin in my head...apologize? wtf? But I suck it up, cuz arguing at this point is pointless, the man has a gun and is ready to shoot me; I ain't pullin no Marty McFly here. He makes me bow down to himi(kinda like how the bad guy in 300 makes the deformed Spartan bow to him towards the end of the movie). I have to pay homage for my offense, and he's just laughing while he's doing it. I get up, and think I'm on my way. As I'm walking away, he yells out. Where the eff do you think you're going? So he runs up to me and he goes, "Now you know I gotta shoot you for real, right?" My mind starts racing. He's too far to reach for his gun. There's no way I can dodge, cuz he's close enough to not miss even if I did move. So I just stand stock-still; heart racing, beads of sweat forming at the top of my head. So he asks me if I wanna get shot up high or down low. While I'm thinking about what a ridiculous question that even is....BAM!! He pulls the trigger! Hits me square on the shoulder. I fall to the groundNext thing I remember, I'm driving myself to the hospital cuz my friends aren't with me, and I'm keeling over to the right while I'm on the wheel....I make it to a building and tell the nurse that I've been shot. She puts me into a room and calls for a doctor. Gives me this huge injection...and I knock out... I pretty much woke up after that. But I can remember vividly the feelings and emotions I was going through. It was unreal. Anyway, one of the few nightmares I've had lately...but still, pretty weird, no?

55 small things you can always do
19. Use cloth bags at the grocery store.
These last two things are very "tree hugger-ish" as someone would say. But this one is actually a VERY small thing you can do to help save the environment one bag at a time. Plastic bags go EVERYWHERE, they float away, and get into our beaches, into random areas, kill animals, affect and contaminate water and soil when they degrade. I try to collect them to use as trashbags, but I think I have so many I could change my trashcans every day for a year or somethin. Anyway, a while back, I bought one of those cloth bags from IKEA. I have yet to use it though =(. But I will soon! Unfortunately, I only have 1, so I'll try to get a 2nd. I shouldn't be trying to buy more than 2 bags' worth of stuff from teh store anyway, most of my stuff always ends up getting spoiled. So try to keep it to two bags...

Quote of the day
Shoutout to Dr Impatient Tooter(cough cough, Mina) for today's quote. What's funny is that she just took it off of someone's laptop at school and didn't know exactly where it was from, and it ends up being from one of my favorito showso...anywho...here it is.

"When I get sad, I stop being sad and be awesome instead. True story."
-Barney (From "How I Met Your Mother")

So simple, and yet so applicable to any situation...