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My ‘hood

I’m lovin living in Duboce Triangle. The people that live on my street in particular spend a LOT of time and money making the common areas really beautiful. There are pots with trees, flowers, bushes, and succulents all up and down the street – not the stock kind the city puts in – the kind that have been put in by individuals with a lot of attention to detail. Corner of Noe and Henry has little sitting areas on 3 of the 4 corners with little benches, trees, and other pretties..

So it really bummed me out this morning to see that some fool driver had hit one of the pots parking their car and then left and another palm tree had been broken off at the trunk by what I would presume to be a drunken fool coming back from the bars. I can only imagine what will happen halloween night when when the hoards descend.. Although looking out my window at the damaged pot – it looks like the neighbors have already replaced it with a brand new one (and moved it back from the curb)

Love the neighborhood but he visitors that it tends to attract aren’t always the most dignified.

Note to self – figure out who is writing the checks for these plants and pots and volunteer to help out…

Fleet week

I’m not so sure I’m super thrilled about the blue angels doing bombing runs over my house – even if it is just for entertainment purposes… ( sure is cool to watch though! 🙂 )

Cyndi Lauper

Found this thanks to yb… MAN I love that woman!…

Some Friday FUn

Few silly things for a friday that I found while eating my tuna sandwich at lunch:

• RIAA sues grandmother

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  The RIAA said it had gathered evidence showing Ward had used Kazaa to share more than 2,000 songs, including hip-hop hits like Trick Daddy’s “I’m a Thug.”
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• Under the category of ‘They get payed to do that?’: OFFICIAL: HOW TO EAT CARROTS

  HEALTH chiefs sent teachers instructions – on how children should eat carrots.
  Emails marked “Urgent” told them: “Wash them, eat them from the bottom, discard the top.” It said that was the method recommended by the Department of Health in Whitehall.

• Under the category of ‘Things that make ya wanna hurl’: Some Fun Optical Illulsions (Scroll down – there’s a bunch)

TGIF

Oh my LORD. Thank GOD its friday.. I need this weekend SO BADLY… I’m actually not entirely sure what even happened this week – just a whole lot of work at a frantic pace. Had a fire drill at work that started Tuesday that I chased around Wednesday and then finally put out yesterday. On top of that I’m dealing with performance reviews at work and a bunch of other not so fun stuff which has been spilling into my evenings. And on top of THAT I’ve had house stuff to deal with – calling the Orkin guys back out cuz the little beasties STILL aren’t gone, dealing with PG&E to get new service installed and figure out why we didn’t get charged for electricity this month (I’d like to think it was a present for my birthday but I doubt it since my b-day was in july), calling the lawyer about the condo conversion, and probably 8 other things I’m forgetting. I did go to the gym a couple of times which is a good thing.

LORD.. I think I’ve become my parents – when did that happen?

So looking forward to the weekend though… Lots going on but not going to be crazy. Seeing my mom tomorrow, party tomorrow night… Then sunday is the Folsom Street Fair which should be a lot of fun. Fair definitely isn’t for the feint of heart but I always have a lot of fun. Not going to all the parties this year like I have in the past – they’re getting WAY TO EXPENSIVE and it usually blows my weekend – way too little sleep and I’ve grown accustomed to my morning coffee.

Anyway. Guess I should get to it so I can finish off my friday so I can go play. (Is it too early for a Gin and Tonic? Probably)

Hurricane

Kevin just sent me these images. I don’t know their origin or validity but if they’re for real then DAMN..