Good Morning!

I woke up this morning realizing that I haven't written since last week's emotional session in group. A few things have happened since then; some exciting - some not. I'll just go over the weekend, because that's when most of the cool stuff happened.


Friday afternoon I was leaving to pick up Jeremy from work; there was a movie in the park in Dana Point that night and we were going to spend a nice, relaxing evening in town and hang out. Well, walking out to my car, I see this:

Doesn't look too bad, does it? I think to myself, "uh oh - another car fire on the freeway" (I am terrible at discerning direction from inside the complex). Well, I go to pull out of the driveway and look up Moulton - and you cannot even see the street, because of the black smoke. It was a brush fire, and it was about 1/2 mile away from the complex. I called J - said no to the movie, and came back in to start throwing some things in a bag or two to evacuate. When he got home, he trekked to the top of the hill overlooking where the fire was, and was able to see that they had it contained and that we were in no danger. Once he calmed me down (I had gotten a little panicky at that point) we were able to go to the movie in Dana Point.

Which, by the way - was really fun! They showed Madagascar 2. It was a clear, cool night - we sat on a couple of camping chairs, I had a blanket - J had popcorn. And the view before the movie started definitely was NOT bad!

Yes, that is ocean in the background. We were at Lantern Bay Park, right across from the Marriott. And if things couldn't get any better - yes, we had a fire scare at home; but this was acutally quite cozy to be next to once it was dark out:





On Saturday, I donated platelets at UCI in Orange. They are different than the Red Cross; because if they do not have the supply they need on hand, they have to purchase the platelets and whole blood. After that, we went to lunch at Mexicasa (yum!) then went to our storage in Corona to grab some things. We ended up in Ontario dropping off a few things for Jeremy's brother. The weather was great in Ontario! Overcast, and sprinkling when we left.


Sunday we headed to Disneyland, but not before we stopped at the Irvine Animal Care Center for their Super Pet Adoption Fair. J and I want to adopt a pug, and one of the rescues we are looking at was there. We saw some very cute puggies! Jeremy kept looking for the one with the perfect "turd tail". He was funny. I ended up holding the cutest pug ever (and didn't get a picture). But one particular pug caught my attention. Her name was Nadia. She had deformed front legs and an underdeveloped eye, but was the most lovable one there! Here she is:





Then, after the pet fair, Jeremy and I went to Disneyland. We missed it!

Then I worked on homework yesterday and am going to continue doing so today. But I had a wonderful weekend with my man!