happy birthday Scott

Thanks for letting me take you out for an afternoon of fun.

It's been a while since I had an afternoon of fun.

Today and tomorrow are going to be big days for me.
Send good thoughts please : )

rabbit rabbit rabbit

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I can't believe I didn't even realize it was the first until I posted those pictures of the sunset!  Nobody else has gotten me yet with the rabbit rabbit rabbit at least so I'm still doing better than others for having realized even by now.

It's October!!  I have no idea what I should be for Halloween.  My problem at this point is that I don't know where I will be for Halloween, which greatly will influence my costume.  Dressing slutty is no fun when you're somewhere cold, I learned that lesson enough times in new york.  Don't get me wrong, I still went out even last year in nothing but a speedo, but still, it's not always fun.

I really liked the year I wore the clown mask, maybe I should think about something like that again.  I saw this costume on reddit.com the other day and loved it:

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And it makes me feel like I should incorporate kitty in to my costume some how.  He does make a perfect Halloween kitty.  Just like Thackery Binx!

So many ideas to mull over.  At least I can fall back on October Barbie as a costume if I can't come up with anything better:

made it for sunset

I think it helped that I was driving my car.  I have more control over my path of travel in my car than I do when I'm driving my grandfathers.  You kind of just have to go with the flow when you're cruising in the oldsmobile, which is fine when you're just tooting about town but frustrating when you want to pick up the pace.

So anyways, I was glad I decided to take my car out and even more glad that I thought to come out for the sunset.

I did end up getting distracted being on the phone (no surprise really) but I managed to get a few shots of the time passing.

The last time I came out for sunset but missed it and stayed in to evening I ended up getting stuck in the most annoying post sunset traffic so I was also concerned about that which meant I didn't stay much longer than this:

Which was fine, by the time I got back to my car it was dark.

Being at the beach at sunset is nice but it makes me really want to come during the day some time, especially before the water gets too cold to go in.  That's one of the things I was curious about with Ft. Lauderdale, if I would be able to swim all year round.  I wonder if I will ever find out.

Hey Eliza, I heard you needed a distraction

Too bad you're not here or you could spend some time with this nice guy.  

I actually tried to take a video of his antics today but it was too sad to just stand there filming him when he so desperately needed nice pets followed immediately by a treat.  

In some ways I feel like the action shots give you a pretty good idea of what the routine consists of:

It's all in the head.  The feet remain firmly planted while he just throws his whole head in to each bark.  And then he give you that look like, "treats now?"

He's such a nice guy, I really hope he gets to meet the detective someday. 

I want this as my ringtone

Thank you Jonathan for sending this to me.

I picture him listening to this and his head exploding at the end haha.

Now all I want to do is listen to every one of those songs.

Gina's got some balls on her

I just feel like if I drove a car that had my name on phone number on it I would be hesitant to act like a crazy asshole while out and about.  It never ceases to amaze me though.

I had a guy one time who was driving insanely through this residential area near my dad's.  At some point, after he flicked me off among other things, I got behind him and noticed that he has a company logo on the back of his truck.  I called the number and, it being the weekend, I got an answering machine.  I left a message just saying something to the effect of, "hey I was just in traffic with one of your vehicles and the driver flipped me the bird, besides his general aggressive driving".  She ended up calling me back on Monday and gave me a lot of attitude.  I don't even know why she bothered calling me back, I don't recall her apologizing on behalf of the driver or the company.

I assume a similar scenario would go down if I called Gina to ask why she felt her groceries were more important than the four other people who could have parked in the spots she was blocking with her obnoxious work vehicle.  I mean, it's one thing to be so completely self absorbed that you think this kind of behavior is ok, but why would you do it with a vehicle that advertises your business?  Why would I ever want to work with somebody so oblivious and self important?

It's not like this was out of the way and she was doing the best she could with a cumbersome vehicle.  She was parked in the very center aisle closest to the doors, and as you can see only a few spots away from the grocery store.

Maybe we should all call Gina and just ask her, "Hey Gigi, what up with your nutty parking?  You think you're better than everybody else?"

Please please call her and ask her that.

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why?!

I took my grandfather to get an MRI yesterday and this was hanging in a random display case of things about the hospital.

I don't get it, like you would come to the hospital to have surgery just for fun?  Or like you've got a couple hours to kill before the movies so why not get a colonoscopy?  You can never be too safe!

Looking at it now it occurs to me that maybe they are talking about volunteering but I think that could have been a little more clear up front.

Anyways, my grandfather is doing ok, it's been a turbulent past few days but things seem to be falling in to more of a routine now.  It makes me feel better about what the future will be like.

I'm starting to go a little stir crazy being back in Sarasota.  I wish I could go somewhere for a couple days but I don't feel comfortable with that yet.

But you're welcome to come visit me!  That rude cat needs somebody to hang out with him during the day when I'm out.  The other day I picked him up and he put his paws on either side of my neck, looked me in the face and just yelled really loud.  Doesn't that sound nice?

Call me and we'll arrange your travels.