My commute this morning took over an hour. Good ole MUNI. But I guess it's really not their fault today. Over the announcement, the driver told us a crazy man was on the tracks at civic center and we couldn't move until he was removed. Crazy man.

Can't wait!!!

Weekend in review...

The Good:
-parents are back safely
-got nails done
-softball game was fun
-no football
-made coxinha (pronounced coshing-yah); a brazilian appetizer. Took dang long, but it turned out to be really good.

The Bad:
-teams lost at softball tournament
-got a parking ticket (my first ticket ever)

Went clubbing last night... preparing ourselves for Vegas.

I was afraid I would wake up late to work this morning. No one is home to wake me up in case I fall back asleep after I hit my alarm clock. So I set it up across the room. My goodness. I think I should go out more often. I got ready and had enough time to pack my lunch, and I still got into the office at 8:20. That's a record... that's the earliest I voluntarily came into the office.

I'm ready for the weekend. 3 more days of work to suffer through after that and then it's Vegas, baby!

Played a game of ping pong after prayer meeting last night at church with Pastor Ryan, Sammo, and Billy Ku. Dang, those guys are so good. I was the one they picked up so they could play doubles. But I thank Sammo and Billy Ku for going easy on me when I was on the receiving end of their serves. That was a lot of fun. We should do this every Wednesday... :)

Yesterday I was in the MUNI station and I saw on the sign that my train was "arriving." So I quickly put in my fast pass and tried running through the turnstile only to be rejected (clotheslined?). This has happened before, so I just went to another turnstile and without looking, ran only to be rejected again. Only then, smart person that I am, decided to take a look at my pass to find out that I was using the July pass, not the August one. At least I didn't miss my train. Stupid MUNI system. Told me it was arriving, but it didn't actually come until 8 minutes after.

Being home alone has been great so far. I don't do anything I wouldn't ordinarily do even if my family were at home. Come to think of it, you would think I'd be out every night, taking advantage of the fact that I have a car... but I've been enjoying having the space to myself. I can see how people would get lonely living alone though. But I'm thankful for this "break."

I went to the gym at 9:45pm last night. That was a first. Don't think I'll be making that a habit. Much respect to those of you that can motivate yourselves to change out of your pj's and hit the gym so late at night. I was exhausted when I came home... and I woke up late this morning!

TV (and my mind) has reached a new low. I was watching some Road Rules Challenge with my sister last night. So teams of two have to complete this relay within 60 seconds. One person has to run into a white circle, where there are 2 attack dogs on a chain. That person needs to stay there while the other person completes the game.

The other person runs to the dog house and needs to retrieve a bone that is being guarded by another attack dog (also chained). But as soon as he grabs the bone and starts running for the finish line, they release an unchained attack dog that basically mauls the contestant. The people literally carried the dog to the finish line... the dog was hanging by its mouth. Of course, the players had protective suits on.

But I was watching this and laughing my head off. I couldn't believe this was an actual contest... that people were voluntarily entering this challenge... that they were showing this crap on TV... and that I was laughing like a psycho.

I find myself running for the MUNI a lot lately. I see it coming in as I'm walking to the MUNI stop so I break into a run, hoping the street lights change in my favor. This morning was no exception. I saw the train coming in... only I was wearing higher heels than normal so it took me more time and steps to run up the street. I passed by a lot of amused faces on the way. But I'm happy to report that I caught the MUNI this morning. The door was closing and I stuck my fingers in just in time. Kind of felt like the Hulk prying open the doors.

Some rude people that were running alongside me just went into the bus and didn't even hold the door open for me. I would think that's common courtesy... holding the door open for fellow late risers.