My New Friend, Mr. Doyle

I have a new friend. His name is Doyle and he is 95 years old. Yes, that's right, 95 (He looks AWESOME for 95 by the way, and he is so incredibly cheerful too!). I met him taking Maesie for a walk. (She is the baby girl I watch two days a week. She is 4 months and absolutely perfect, almost as perfect as my nephew, almost...) So Maesie and I are walking around the block 2 weeks ago and we encounter an old man in an electric wheelchair. To make a long story short, I stopped, he stopped and we ended up walking together to the corner lemonade stand. We had a good talk that day. He told me about his wife who just passed away in June. They were married for 73 years! I told him about T, how he was a sailor and how he just came back to Afghanistan. He then told me about his grandson who just came back from a year long tour in Iraq. We had a good chit chat that day and I decided we are going to walk more often.

Today, I stopped by to say hello while I was walking with Maesie. Doyle's face lit up when he saw me. He was so excited I came to visit and his excitement made my day. We couldn't go on a walk because his caretaker had not arrived yet. But we had a good sit and a short chat about school and marriage. He told me he married his wife when he was my age (19) and she was 16. They had some rough moments, but were fortunate to make it all on their own. He told me she was beautiful, and they had the best times together.

I am so very excited to learn more about him. He is the sweetest man and being born in 1915, he has truly seen history happen. Just imagine. I am happy I have made a old and wise friend and I look forward to our visits.

 

Please excuse my lack of background. I am doing some bloggy changes.

XOXOXO

Why I Hate California

There are a plethora of things I can include in this post about my disdain for California. I could write about how marijuana lovers and their quest to legalize the DRUG has taken over every street corner and classroom debate, It drives me CRAZY! "Marijuana is safer that any other substance, even alcohol!"  Okay you low life pot-head, tell me that when you have Schizophrenia 10 years.

Or I can write about how it is IMPOSSIBLE to get into a university in California. I can't get a bachelors degree in Community College, San Diego State, how about you start accepting more than 10% of applicants?

Or I can witch about how much ANYTHING and EVERYTHING costs. $400 dollars to register my car? You jerks.

I COULD talk about all that stuff and more but this post is about something I hate more. TRAFFIC.

Tonight, a Sunday night, at 9pm I was stuck in traffic! I totally understand being stuck in traffic during the morning commute or even on the way to the beach on a nice day, but on a Sunday? Really?! As I am leaving Camp Pendleton, after I spent a wonderful day with T and a few friends, I get stuck in gridlock on the 5. And I literally mean gridlock. I was going about 2 miles per hour for half of my trip. The other half I was going, wait for it, 30 miles per hour. A 45 minute drive took me an OVER AN HOUR AND A HALF!  Just like the very day before the same drive took me TWO HOURS! TWO HOURS ON A SATURDAY?! Where the heck are all these people going?

I would understand if there was maybe an accident or lanes were blocked BUT NOOO this traffic was just due to too many people driving at once. (I have never understood traffic. How can traffic occur if there is no accident or some type of obstruction in the road?) The best thing about my entrapment in the trafficy hell hole I like to call the 5, is that there are no exits the whole drive. If you have ever driven to Camp Pendleton, you know. If you haven't let me paint you a picture. My drive to Camp Pendleton is about 30 miles. 20 of those miles are "nothingness". Just the glorious ocean to one side, and miles and miles of uninhabited Camp Pendleton on the other. So while I was stuck in traffic, I would have LOVED to take side streets home, but I couldn't. I was trapped!

WHY CALIFORNIA!? Please, do something to tame the traffic. I may just buy a motorcycle. There is nobody I envy more than those bikers zipping though the middle of the gridlock. If that was me I'd be laughing manically at the poor people stuck in the car while I'd be whipping up the middle of the lanes.

I had to get this off my chest. Traffic can make people go koo-koo, myself included. On a lighter note. I have been noticing I have been pretty whiny lately. In my real life and on my bloggy blog. So after writing this rant I have decided I am going to be more positive about everything. Power of positive thinking. It will be good stuff!

Wordless Wednesday

Apparently full grown men are born in Sick Call.... 

I've Got A Case Of The Monday's

First, I must extend a thank you to all you lovely ladies who gave me advice on my last post. Friday at the command BBQ his Chief told us all he would have to do on Monday was come in, talk about the weekend, then everyone will be on their merry way. So with all that free time he was going to fix his truck then come up to my neck of the woods and go out to dinner. WELLLL turns out T ended up working until 1 then when he went to fix his truck, it was far to complicated. (Apparently in 2001 Ford decided to make the spark plugs virtually impossible to reach on their F-150's, so he must take it into the dealership). So no truck means no dinner date. But hopefully the truck will be fixed this week so we can go to dinner and have a good talk about everything.


Now about my Monday. I have had the WORST headache today. I woke up (and by woke up I mean dragged myself out of my bed) and the second I stood upright I felt like someone smashed my head with a hammer. AND I have been feeling this way ALL DAY. This menace in my brain WILL NOT RELENT. It is so bad at some points it makes me want to vomit. What a rude little bugger. Watching "My First Place" with the most annoying and pretentious woman EVER is not helping, and staring at the computer all day probably will not remedy my headache either so I am hoping sleeping will. I am trying to avoid taking medicine but if I still have a headache tomorrow morning I will be popping some pills.


I hope everyone is having a great week!

And on a side note (because I am far to lazy to do a new post) It's TUESDAY TAG ALONG! I love finding new blogs and I especially love it when people find mine. So if you are from TTA I welcome you to browse my blog and leave some bloggy love!And be sure to leave a linky-doo to your blog so I can check it out!

XOXOXO