Whining

Everyone can completely ignore this; I just need to vent somewhere.

I am having a bad week. Here's why! Only click if you want to read annoying, self-indulgent whinery.



1) I'm worried about my mom. My grandpa, who is in ill health mentally and physically, is moving in with them, and it's basically up to my mom to handle everything. I don't think this is fair to her, especially in light of all of her own health problems. It just makes me sad I can't be there to help her out.

2) Work has sucked lately. We keep getting attacked by porn sites, and the kids all went mental to top it all off. It's always on the weekends when there's no one in the office to help. Plus, the site is so laggy it's next to impossible to get anything done, other than become terribly frustrated.

3) Scott is on a fire in Yosemite. This sucks for the following reasons:
a) I hate when he's gone for the danger factor, and this is a particularly bad fire. It's spreading quickly, and the terrain is bad, which are both causes of firefighter injuries.
b) He was supposed to be home this morning and have several days off. We had such a nice mini-vacation planned. We were going to visit his sister and our niece and nephew, and go hang out at the casino, which has awesome pools and a spa.
c) My Blogging Top Chef gig is up in the air. The three of us were going to go to San Diego together for the Top Chef Tour event, and Scott was going to watch Aiden while I got to go in and get backstage to interview the chefs, see demonstrations, take pics, etc. Now, it will just be Aiden and me, and I don't know how open Bravo TV will be to having a six-year-old in there. :(

4) The DMV is screwing me over. Last August, I paid my registration and ordered a change of address for my license. Fast forward to now: I realized that they never sent me my stickers or my new license, meaning according to them I have been driving unregistered this entire time. I showed them my check proving I paid it; they wanted a bank print out. I got a bank print out; they wanted one that shows front AND back. Not to mention the forms...if they try to make me pay fees for this I am going to go ape shit on them, I swear to god. I have to go tomorrow and hope that I get an employee who isn't a jerkface and can finally help me. I'm not optimistic however, as we are talking about the CA DMV here.

Anyway, those are my rants as to why I'm angry, disappointed, and bummed today. I'm going to try really hard to get things together tomorrow and get everything dealt with so I can make it to SD and have fun. I'm trying to be positive here, but it's tough. :/

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This just made me feel better though. While I was typing this, Aiden came over and saw a Rogain commercial on TV. He said "that's the greatest invention I have ever heard of! There will be no more bald people, and then when the aliens come, we can give it to them so they have hair! And bald cats too; we'll have no more bald cats!" Okaaaaaay. XD

Bonus! Flipping video

I had forgotten I took this! After the jump, since it stretches past the text box.

Summer fun

The weather's been really great lately, so we've been outside a lot on my days off this week.
We were at the pool yesterday, and Aiden randomly decided that he should start back flipping off the edge of the pool. I was nervous, but he loved it!

A few more from the pool:





Today we took a walk to the park by our house.









If this great weather holds out, I think well head for some beach time tomorrow. I've been having a lot of fun getting pummeled in the big waves lately, and last week we saw a pod of dolphins when we were out swimming, but I didn't have my camera! So I really want to try to find some again and get some pictures.

Two new shirts

I scored a bunch of awesome shirts for a buck a piece from a thrift store, and managed to make a couple of new shirts on my days off.

Before:

After! This one was no sew; I just hacked it up and added ties.


I'm an official Air Force One crew member!


Number two I did sew. It was a large men's shirt, so I had to resize it first. Then I added flutter sleeves and some more red from scrap that I have. I'm really happy with the way this one turned out:



Hi Aiden! :P




I also made a dress, but I don't have pics of that just yet.

Mid June: surfing competition and graduation!

These are a bit old, but still well worth posting. My baby graduated from kindergarten! *sob*cry*sob*

With his wonderful teacher:



Chatting with a good friend:



We also got to attend a surfing competition at the beach down the street from us. We managed to catch about 3 rounds while we were there and make a sand castle; it was really fun!

The Getty

About a month ago, we finally made it into LA to visit the The Getty Museum, which I have been wanting to do since we moved down here.

A close up of his signature <3



Awesome sculpture, I believe ancient Greek:



Monet:







Munch:



The grounds outside:







And finally, Aiden rolling down the big hill; he had people stopping to watch and cheering him on!

Celebration at the park

I had to work on the Fourth, but I did manage to take an hour long lunch and walk with Aiden to our local celebration, which was luckily only about two blocks from us.

We managed to squeeze in a few rides in our hour, plus he got to play water tag, which he loved:







He needs a haircut XD.