Registering

Ok, so I haven't been in the mood to blog in awhile, and to be honest I don't really feel in the mood
right now.













I will though because every once in awhile I feel guilty that I started a blog and I neglect it, as though its a plant in my living room, and I am too involved with other things to water it.

Sooo, I thought I would get on and write about my crazy morning.

So some of you may or may not know Jonny and I recently purchased a car last Thursday. I LOVE it! Its a 2006 Honda Civic hybrid. She is SO fun to drive, and I LOVE saving gas. I mean I can't tell you all the difference in driving an Avalanche and driving a little Civic! Its funny, when we go out in the mornings to go to school, Jacie says "Mommy, I think the truck is sad that we aren't driving it, maybe we should take that." In turn Mommy replies "Oh, no honey I think the truck wants to rest its gas mileage awhile."

Anyway, this morning I had to go register the car. I decided that though I thoroughly enjoy the lovely folks at the DMV, and the nasty attitude that is usually given, and the looooong lines I would have to stand in. I thought maybe I would just run down to the AAA instead.

Well, our closest AAA is in a town called Hemet. Now I have written short snippits about Hemet before, because this is where my favorite Walmart is. However, Walmart is on the very edge of Hemet. Let me explain this little town of Hemet. You see, Hemet is not what you would call an "uptown" sorta town. I'm not saying its a bad town, I'm just sayin' that if by chance you are lookin' to join a gang.... or rob a bank... or ... any sorta high crime incident is in your future plans, you can head on down to Hemet and check it out!

 Ok, now just like most towns there are "nice" parts of Hemet as well, though there aren't a whole lotta of em.. if ya catch my drift. Now, don't get me wrong I am not against Hemet, there are many reason I head that way for different reasons, but I don't like to really cruise the streets and get outta my car to hang out at the local liquor store, or spray paint my favorite wall with my signiture tag sign.

Ok, so now that you have a little back ground of where I had to go to to get to AAA you will understand my morning a little better. So.. I thought that I knew exactly where the office was so I headed out that way, and confidently took my sweet little car on the adventure. Turns out I was wrong about the street it was on and I was traveling deeper and deeper into the realms of Hemet. Though I was a little nervous, I wanted to make things easier for when I happen to find the AAA office. So,  I decided that I would get money out at the first Wells Fargo bank I saw so that I didn't have to write a check and have to wait for it to go through... smart right? Yeah, I thought so. So luckily they had a drive thru ATM and because the line had 4 cars in it, and not ONE person was using the walk up ATM, this gave me a good enough clue to tell me that not even the local residence feel safe getting money out and not have a quick enough get away.

So, I pulled up and got in line. After gettin' the loot and pulling out of the drive way, I saw a Jack in the box, and decided to get something to drink because I wasn't sure how long I would be on the road lookin' for this crazy place, in this crazy town. After I order I pull up to the window hand the twenty something year old man my money and ask him where Stetson street was. "Oh," he said, "I don't know I don't drive, so I don't know." "Thats o.k." I said and waited for him to ask one of his buddies in the back "Well, I can't drive (he informed me again) so I don't know, but they said you just take that street down till you hit it." I tell him "thank you so much." Which I completely ment, for not only telling me how to get to the street, but also for NOT telling me why he can't (or maybe is prohibited to) drive.

FINALLY after about 20 minutes of looking, I find the place and head in to register my new little car, so she can be official!! As I am sitting there in the air conditioned building in the plush cushion chairs, playing my angry birds, I am happy that I chose AAA instead of the DMV.. even though I was risking my life looking for the place. In the middle of this thought I get called up and the friendly woman (this is not sarcasm she really was pleasant) starts out with the paper work and tells me the total. Whoa.. this was more than I thought.. hadn't thought about the sales tax I guess. So I pull out the ONE check I had in my wallet and write it out to her.. so much for getting out the cash and thinkin' ahead! Thats when she says with a smile "Oh you put the amount wrong." UGH!! I made two mistakes and completely ruined the check! I had no more checks, AND not enough cash!  I told the woman that I would be right back with the money.

So I headed out to try to find another local Wells Fargo, and finally found one..... ok, I HAD to get out and go in the bank. Now I'm not gonna say I was terrified, but I did look over my shoulder 2 maybe 5 times to see if I could possibly see the bank robbers approaching so at least I wouldn't be caught off guard when they stick the gun in my back and yell "THIS IS A STICK UP!!! Do they say that any more?

Anyway..I'm not gonna lie, the only people that didn't look a little scared were the ones workin' behind the bullet proof glass!!

So after I practically whisper the amount i needed withdrawn to the teller, and he SHOUTS it back through the glass and then proceeds to count out the bills so that I will then have to stick in my purse and walk to my car without a police escort! I practically run to the car, slam the door shut and put in gear while trying to dodge the people behind me. I head BACK to the AAA and go inside to give the nice woman the cash and register my little beauty!

After she was official, I had only an hour until it was time to pick up the kids. I decided that I would celebrate by parking in the shade by the school and ......... read! It was wonderful!

Now begins our Spring break. This will be a fantastic week of sleeping in!! Tonight we are celebrating by going to see the Hunger Games, with Aunie, Katelyn, Brian, Jonny, Jack, Allen, and myself of course. I can't wait!! Tomorrow is Jacks game, and then we will be havin' some cake and ice cream to celebrate his birthday, which is actually Monday. Fun, fun! Ok, that is all today, I have past my limit of blogging for now. Happy Spring Ya'll!!!!!!!

McDonalds

      This morning started at Walmart. Though it wasn't a great exciting visit, I did decide to go to McDonalds, cause I was REALLY thirsty! Well, as I was drinkin' my McDonalds drink I was pretty bummed that I couldn't get a small.. just a small fry, cause it was still breakfast. This made me think.. what is it about McDonalds and those damn fries?!

What do they do to them that makes them so irresistible?! I mean, think about it, have you ever heard anyone say, "ugh, McDonalds fries are gross!!" Nope, I haven't.. its ridiculous! So.. I'm convinced that they must put crack cocaine, in the oil.. or maybe they figured out a way to turn heroine into salt, and they just sprinkle it right on there!

Alright, maybe thats just a little far fetched. It is just a crazy mystery! I'll have to research this another day.. probably not.

      I have a few problems with McDonalds. Why do they act like they are hoarding gold, instead of ketchup?

 Every time I order at the drive thru, they NEVER ask if you want ketchup. Then when you ask them if you can have ketchup they will ask, "sure, how many would you like?"... Seriously?! How many would I like??!! I would like exactly 22!!!! NO, NO, 50, now hurry up and start counting!!!!!!!!!!! Oh and if you ask for a ranch, or bbq sauce, you better have ordered 100 chicken nuggets, if you order 200 you may be able to get 2 sauces. I mean they make billions and they can't spare ketchup or bbq sauce?  Damn, that McDonalds and there addictive french fries!!!!!!!!!!

Anyway that is about it for my ramble of the day. With Spring in the air, the weather is amazing today, I haven't a whole lot to complain about. Oh how I LOVE Spring!!

Rod Run, and LA!! Weekend of FUN!!

Friday night we went to Temecula, which is two towns over from us, and is the city where Jer and Yvonne live. Twice a year they have the "Rod Run." The Rod Run, is basically a car show, and people (like us) walk around and enjoy their cars, eat at the restaurants and listen to live music. Its a lot of fun to hang out and have a good time! So "The Gang" (Dad, Mom, Jer, Yvonne, Alex, Katelyn, Alison, Allen, Brian, Breanna, Jack, Jace, Jonny and I) all went down, had some yummy BBQ at Sweet Lumpys, and headed out to look at some cool cars, and watch them cruise up and down Main Street...

Jacie looking up to Katelyn... as always!

Temecula's Main Street..

waitin' for some yummy ice cream!

Mommy and my girl.. 

 Bonanna, Aunie and Papa..

Ice cream smiles!!

 thumbs up for Rod Run!!

Yum, yum!!

Silly cousins!

Alex and Jer checkin out the cars..

 Nana & Papa..

 You wish, girl!

 Katelyn showin' off her new gift.. a fire extinguisher lighter.

ON TO LA!!

Saturday, we decided that we would head out to LA, to take a look around and do some touristy things. Jacie spent the night at the Freemans, so Jonny, Jack and I decided to go to LA early and show Jack a pretty cool museum. First stop... Peterson Auto Museum!

LA here we come!

Had to take a picture with the first two cars that impressed him.

Then I had him take a picture of the car that impressed me the most.

The entrance into the Hot Wheels section.

The first two levels was "Look, but don't touch!" The 3rd and final level was "Go ahead and TOUCH"

Vrooooom, vrooooom!!!!

Dress to impress for the model T car!

 look out!

that's it.. put it in gear.

learning about motion.

Daddy showin' the boy how the gears work.

so if I just jam it in like this.. it will work?

Newtons law machine.. stayin' in motion!

gears..

Its a race, is it a tie? Nope, Jack won!

And that concludes our museum tour!

Now time to check out Sunset Blvd..

Laugh factory.. a lot of famous comedians come outta there..

Whiskey a go go, a club where famous rockers come out of..

We decided to check out the huge houses in Beverly Hills..

Most of the streets were up hill.. and covered with perfectly groomed bushes..

When we got to the top we saw the view from the million dollar homes..

Of all the giant mansions, this little cottage looking house was my favorite..

So because we couldn't see all of the houses, we google mapped them on my Kindle, they were ridiculously big!

We headed back to Sunset..

Most of the stuff we saw, I was too slow to get pictures of, but we were at a red light and I saw this..

Straight ahead, I took a picture of this cool building just cause I liked it. It was Catholic church. Very pretty..

We had to stop and pee, so we went to Target. This Target you can only get to from the parking garage..

Then you must take an elevator..

From Target, you can see the Hollywood sign and The Roosevelt Hotel..

While waiting for the gang to meet us, we parked in front of this place.. can you guess what kind of medical center this is??...

Ah, yes its a medical marijuana clinic, are you havin' some aches and pains? Well head on down to LA, and you can smoke it up!!

Once we all met up together, we headed to "Pinks" hot dogs. Pinks is a very well known hot dog joint, where celeb's sometimes like to visit.

Oh, my is that a celebrity??!!??

Oh my gosh its JEREMY CRIPPEN!!!!! I knew we would see some one cool!!

part of the gang..

Inside Pink's are lots of pictures signed by stars who have visited.. Jacie and I were most impressed with DOLLY!!!

 After Pinks, we headed out to "The Grove." Apparently this is also where all the celebrities go and shop. Unfortunately we didn't see any. Jacie was especially bummed, cause she really thought she would see Taylor Swift or Selena Gomez. Sorry Jace. BUT, we still had a fantastic day! It was so much fun!