4 posts tagged “tide pools”
Today is an inspired entry, 20 things that are good, just to remind myself that not everything sucks. So here I go in no special order.
1. Kitties. They are always good. I think mine are better than yours but kittycat people around the world should gather for the biggest cuddlefest in the known universe.
2. Angel: After the Fall. I like it much better than Season 4 Angel and almost as much as Season 5. It maintains the characterization from the TV show while pushing the limits of the Buffy/Angel-verses. I have to say that it's much better than the Buffy comics which just went places because they no longer had to deal with the limitations of the known budget and believability. 50 ft. Dawn and Lesbian Buffy, my ass.
3. BOOKS. Where do I start. I feel like my time on earth screws with my ability to read as much as I possibly could. There are too many good books. So hard to imagine a world without them. I think they are so much better than food and air. Books are true necessities.
4. Awake is the New Sleep by Ben Lee. I love this CD. I could listen to it on repeat for hours or not listen to it for a month and it always gives me the same warm and tinglies no matter what. I just don't get how Ben Lee can be so amazing and still be a mere mortal.
5. Lentil Loaf or Rice Loaf. The one thing I really miss about not eating meat is meatloaf. Lentil/rice loaf is a pretty good substitute. I wish I had it more often.
6. Diet Snapple. I'm a big fan of the Peach, Lemon and Raspberry and haven't tried the Plumagranite. Is that what it's called. Now I embarrassed myself not knowing the name of it.
7. The Gap. I am a Gap girl. I love it. I wish that the workers weren't such nazis but I can handle my own, sort of. Fall. Into. The. Gap.
8. Tide pools/Sea stars. I could spend all day at the ocean looking for sea life at the tide pools. There are days when I count how many sea stars we can find... the most was 14. I wish I could find the picture Aaron took with me and the giant sea star in Carpinteria.
9. 300. I don't know exactly what I love about this movie but I do, sincerely, love something about it. I know the humor is a bit stick to your ribs but it makes me giggle everytime. Gerard Butler is fantastic and it has Michael Fassbender in it and I think there is something about him. I loved him in Hex too.
11. Raspberries. I like to eat them out of the container, with little to no ceremony. An entire 6 oz plastic tray is barely enough for me. I also get raspberry iced teas from Iso: Fusion Cafe and it is made from syrup of raspberries. Mmmmmm.
13. Spoons. No one could have too many. Spoons are glorious. The only things that compete with them are straws. Spoons rock.
15. Barnes and Noble/Borders/Amazon. This sort of leads us back into number 3, but these are places not things. These three places are akin to Mecca. I just wish that they were more giving with their pricing of things. I guess they try with all the coupons and discounts, but books shouldn't be so expensive. Don't anyone bring up libraries... it's like prostitution for books. I like them being mine and mine alone.
18. Fountains and waterfalls. Maybe it's just water or could be the facade of happy waters. I do like rivers and oceans too. I am constantly taking pictures of water. Just today I took a pair of photos for my assignment from Dr. Moore, of a fountain.< Worst construction of a sentence commited in a long, long, long time.
19. Root beer. I know it is points damning but I love knee high bottles of Route 66, Sioux City, Boylan's, etc... I love Galco and I could spend hundreds of dollars there in no time.
20. Volvo commercial with the terribly adorable chatterbox little girl. I love her to death. If I were guaranteed to to have one just like her, I might explore other options.
From there we went to San Simeon to Elephant Seal Beach. The last time we were here the look out wasn't built up and the viewing area was small with a small path that took you further down the shore. That is all changed now, it's all built up and it has this deck that follows the elephant seals area pretty far down. The elephant seals are huge and they are ruckus, making a fair bit of noise. And I don't remember it smelling the way it did today. It smelled almost like a barn. Not really a bad smell, but it wasn't the best smell either. I took some video of them. I will upload that to here too.
D told me this story about this town that sits below the mountains and all the real estate is cheap because the mountains landslide once every so many years. I saw it as we drove by and it's not much to look at. I wonder if you are so desperate to own why you wouldn't invest more sagely. Maybe some people are just risk takers. It made me feel sad. It seems like a hopeless cycle.
And lastly, and only Heather and David will get the significance of this photo, but a silver S60 Volvo.
We arrived in San Diego early in the afternoon and went to Cabrillo National Monument. I was rather disappointed by the masses of people which meant the tide pools were nothing more than a dream I once had. There were children everywhere and they were annoying and better left at home. They ruin all my fun. Maybe tomorrow it will rain and then we can go back and see them without the blighters.
From there we drove to Mission Bay. We were going to get pizza from this one place I know of that has gigantic slices but it was a mad house. There wasn't a parking space to be found and we drove around for about fifteen minutes looking. So we left Mission Bay and headed for the hotel.
We decided to go to Paesano's for dinner. The nav system on the new car is so sweet. We got there and we didn't have to go to Bob's buttcrack to get there. We shared a plate of gnocchi and some garlic bread. I really should have had the manicotti. Maybe we'll go back there tomorrow.
We got Twilight on audiobook for the ride down and we listened up to Port Angeles. David accused me of wanting to just drive around and listen to it all night. After we got back to the hotel room I got to show him the sides and he finally got to read the first chapter of Midnight Sun. We agree that Edward's point of view is going to be way darker than Twilight. I don't know if I have enough patience to go to next spring for it to be out. Christmas maybe. Spring, I just don't think so.
David wanted me to try to watch an episode of New Amsterdam and I liked it a lot. I watched two episodes, in fact. The internet connection for the hotel isn't the greatest so it got a bit laggy. I can see me watching more of it. More power to the guys who never age.
So then to top off my night I got a phone call. I've been waiting for it. I wasn't caught off gaurd. But my grandmother took a nose dive. When my father called she was incoherent and unable to swallow. She didn't know where she was. I feel a bit guilty because when I called this week she was sleeping and I didn't try to call back. She was doing so much better I allowed myself to believe that she had unlimited time. So tonight I sleep with the phone next to me. I wait to hear that she is gone.
