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Cooler than Second weekend - not a whole lot else of note that I can remember at the moment.

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Second week.

I miss last weekend's weather. It was 97 degrees on Saturday, and drier than that Silica stuff they put in shoe-boxes to keep out the moisture.

Had to wet my drum about every minute or so just to keep from shredding it with the tipper. The heat and dry was sucking the water right back out of the skin.

I was drinking non-alcoholic fluids ALL DAY, without stopping, and STILL managed to be pretty seriously dehydrated by the end of the day. I don't know how the pub-crawlers survived.

My little sister came out and got some good shots of our dance show. I was thrilled - just wish I had gotten pictures of the two of us together, that would have been nice.

Apparently, Sammy Hagar showed up too.

Sunday (today) was cooler - by about 5 degrees... but it wasn't nearly as dry. It was almost nice. About another 5 or 10 degrees would have been lovely.

Weather prediction for next weekend is rain. I'm looking forward to it.

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Opening weekend was great.

Cool weather, threatening rain... never actually rained, but it was still nice.

The Saturday morning dance show was a failgasm - the group dances fell apart, my drum was a little too wet, so it was hard to hear, and the people standing in the back just stood there like zombies.

The rest went better. Drum was drier by the second show, and Sunday was only partly cloudy, and not quite so humid. The dancers seem to have worked out the kinks - at least most of them - and the rest of the zombies learned to clap.

Birthday Adventures

My sister took me out to dinner for my birthday.

We went to this sushi place in downtown Fullerton called Chomp. It's actually right across the lot from Roadkill Ranch, where Roommate and I got our spiffy dresses.

Anyway, my sister and I ordered about $40-$45 worth of sushi, ate it, then realized neither of us had our ATM cards.

Now SHE is driving back out to Ontario to get hers, and I'm waiting in the restaurant.

Did I mention I'm in Fullerton?

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Edit:

Was sitting in the restaurant for 2 hours waiting for my sister to get back. While I was waiting - aside from arguing with my Blackberry over whether or not I actually wanted to POST the first part of this blog (had to re-type it 5 times before it stuck) - Billy Joel's "Uptown Girl" came on the radio.

When we were kids, that was one of my sister's favorite songs. Considering the situation, my brain wandered off on a little mini-tangent and I realized how funny it would be if, considering the situation, my sister chose that PARTICULAR moment to walk through the door.

I started giggling to myself

And it was all I could do to remain on my seat at the sushi bar when, a few minutes later the "Turning Japanese" song came on the radio.

I'm sorry, but when you've been stranded in a sushi restaurant for nearly 3 hours, that is HILARIOUS.

Even the waitress laughed - she was awesome.

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Edit 2:

Still can't find my ATM card.

Car stereo died - I think there's a shorted wire.

Bad birthday karma?

Oh well, at least the sushi incident was fun.

Silverfish

Earlier this evening I heard Roommate attempting to convince Kitten to tell her what she was up to. This usually means Kitten is up to some kind of mischief, so I got up and headed to the other room to run interference. As I got to the other room, Roommate started shouting for me to get over there and "bring a shoe or something.

I was still wearing shoes, so I just took one off, and continued towards her room.

There was a silverfish on the wall.

Kitten was staring at it intently, trying to figure out how to kill it.

Roommate was staring at it, and yelling at me to kill it.

Shoe met Silverfish - shoe won.

Kitten, however, did not believe the silverfish was dead - at least not dead enough for her liking. She continued to stare at the spot on the wall where the silverfish had been, and now a slight grey streak was, until I picked her up and held her where she could reach it.

She attacked the streak on the wall. Repeatedly.

I eventually took her with me when I left the room, and after a bit she forgot about the silverfish. Now Kitten is asleep on my feet.

...snoring.

Viva Roadkill Ranch!

Went to the Pre-Viva Las Vegas event at Roadkill Ranch with my room mate today. She did my makeup, and had me borrow one of her dresses because all I have are ultra-formal, victorian, or "little black dress" type dresses. Apparently none of the above would do - so I borrowed this...

While we were there I actually FOUND a DRESS that I will wear on occasion. Maybe. Probably. This one:

Yea, I know. My hair is all big and stuff. She did that, it's not really my thing. Neither is the red lipstick.

Love the little anchor on the dress though.

Usually when we go, I just kind of hang around and wait for her to finish her dress-shopping. Maybe I might buy a t-shirt or something, but generally not. I'm so not a clothes-shopping kind of person. But this dress was so nifty my room mate played copycat and got one too - she ended up with 3 dresses, I just got the one.

Funny Phone Convo

Roommate: OK Dad, you're on speakerphone
Roommate's dad: No I'm not!
Roommate: Um, yes. You are.
Roommate's dad: No I'm not!
Roommate: Dad, you are. I put you on speakerphone!
Roommate's dad: I am not! would you LISTEN to me for once?
Roommate: Dad. Yes, you ARE on speakerphone. I put you on because I'm driving...
Roommate's dad: (hangs up)