at last

it's amazing how the internet and cable has improved my mood. i guess they are luxury things but when you are in a home without any access to news, friends, family, the world ~ it sucks.

john is gone 5 1/2 days a week coupled with the fact that i don't know my way around anywhere leaves me stranded at home. i'm thankful for my job which gets me out of the house. i have made a few new friends ~ girls who have worked at this company 16 and 25 years respectively. they are best friends. but i long to get OUT and see things. i am going to start a list of sites that i want to see and i will add to it. then i will check off what i have seen and work my way through.

now that i have internet access again i can mapquest some things and venture out. but i without the mountains i have no sense of direction. yes, there are mountains here. however, living in the valley they are on more than one horizon ~ so i don't know where west is!! when someone gives me directions and they say go north on santa fe street, i don't know which way is north! tell me turn right or left!

california drivers are very rude and psycho. people weren't kidding when they said that you take your life in your hands every day when driving on the highways. even side streets. people are aggressive, rude and dangerous. i like driving but trying to navigate on 6 lane highways leaves much to be desired.

there have also been three earthquakes since i've been here but none near enough that i've felt anything. i hope this doesn't mean "the big one" is coming. i did predict that; however. such would be my luck. :)

i have a few things to do this weekend - clean, laundry and catch up on True Blood, The Closer, Raising the Bar and Whale Wars episodes. hope you have a good one too!