Day 18/19

I haven't posted a picture in awhile. Because 1.) Most days I forget. and 2.) I don't do anything exciting to take a picture of. Especially not every day.

That being said, yesterday was an exciting day off. Mom and I went out to run some errands and hit a redbox when Dad called us to pick up the car from the airport. Late last month, at Snowtastic, the window on Mom's car  broke. What was once a power window became a manual one. As in to roll it up you have to sandwich the window between your two hands and use your strength to force it up. The only way you can roll it down is if it drops suddenly by itself. This is what happened to Dad as he was trying to catch a flight out for a business trip. Except the window didn't just drop a little...this time it dropped all the way down. So, already kind of late for his flight he called us to go pick up the car. Mom and I left with some cardboard and duct tape to go retrieve the car.

When we got there Mom stuck her hand through the wide open window and unlocked the door and opened it. The the alarm went off. And we didn't have the right key to make it stop. See for some reason we have 2 keys for this car. One to lock/unlock and the other to start the engine. On the spare set however, we only have the one for the engine. Not the most brilliant thing. So here we are at the airport with the alarm of the car going off. I seriously thought that we were going to get arrested or something especially with all of the security breaches that have been happening lately. So I called Dad and tried to figure out a way to get his set of keys. The airport people were nice and passed them to me without Dad having to go out of the airport and go back through security. We got the keys. Taped up the car. And drove our pimp ride home.

Here is Mom taping cardboard to the hole where the window should be. All we had was purple duct tape at home. We ran out of the hot pink roll.

Today, I have some pictures of the rain. I hate the rain. Almost everyone loves it. But not me. They love the gentle "pitter patter" that the rain makes as it hits their windows softly singing them to sleep. To me it sounds like gunfire... like some arsenal of firearms is being emptied. I don't like the rain. 

The rain means everyone is out with umbrellas. Crowds with umbrellas is a terrifying thing and going to school with a largely asian population makes it even scarier. Everyone is short enough where their umbrellas are right at my eye level. One day, someone is going to gouge out my eye on accident and I will hate the rain even more.

Driving in the rain is also the worst. This morning I was coming back to Irvine from Valencia and I seriously thought I was going to die. The rain makes everyone drive super slowly, which is good unless you are trying to make it back to school in time to take a quiz and on top of that you have to pee really badly because 1.) you didn't go before you left, thinking traffic wouldn't be that bad and you could hold it and 2.) because driving in the rain is just that frightening. It is scary. You could hydroplane. The idiot driving too fast in the lane next to you could hydroplane. The idiot behind you going to fast might not brake in time and smash into you. I hate it when the car next to you or on the other side of the freeway drives through some massive puddle and all that water is displaced onto your windshield leaving you blind until your wiper comes and tries to get rid of all that water plus the water falling from the sky off of your car. A million things could go wrong on the road because of the rain. The rain is evil.

Somewhere on the 405. This is another way things could go wrong on the road. Some idiot tries to take pictures while driving in a storm.

I also hate the rain because it makes the crazy people come out. Or maybe it makes the crazy come out of people. The most idiotic outfits and behaviours can be seen when it rains. There are the girls who think that because they wore their Ugg boots with their shorts it makes everything ok. Then there are the fools who think they look super cool standing in the middle of the flooded part on Ring Road not doing anything. Just standing there. 

Or there is this stupid fool (who you can't really see because I was walking all fast since the rain was nuts and also because this guy was running. He's that fleshy colored blur at the top of the photo). This guy is running around with no shirt and no shoes...all he is wearing is shorts. The rain makes people stupid.

One other exciting thing happened aside from the rain. I ate buffalo jerky. Buffalo are not endangered so I didn't feel bad about it. 

 

Painted my nails as an act of rebellion against the weather.