Let It Raaain

Right now, outside, it is raining. Those who live in other states may not understand the HUGE significance of this small little detail. But yes, IT IS RAINING. According to Ca.gov/drought, California has been in a drought for a long time. It started around 2011, that’s a total of THREE years with less water,people.

I heard my neighbor got fined because he washed his car and water was all over the sidewalk. That’s ridiculous. Water should be plentiful, and washing cars in your own driveway is practically an american past time.

So I went to the grocery store the other day, and FoodCo wanted to charge me $1.29 for ONE permission. Whattheheck. I guess I cant make my famous permission cookies now. 😦 Also, grapes are $3.29 at Grocery outlet. Im pretty sure they were NOT that expensive last year.

I really hope this wet period lasts. The drought is causing all the fruit prices to rise, as well as most vegetation drying out, which creates the spread of more wild fires. Where i’m from, I live on the outskirts of town, so its very common to see lots of dead or dying grass.

So, when I looked outside this morning, I saw my crazy neighbor standing in her driveway with her tongue out trying to catch raindrops. I LOL’d, snapped a picture, and showed it to my boyfriend. I would’ve included that picture since it would be a great conclusion to this post, but i decided against it, for privacy reasons. (plus she was only wearing her robe, and that’s way embarrassing on her part.) For now, please enjoy this picture of a smiling raindrop I found on Google.

Happy Thursday, Y’all!

-Tina P

Long Time No See

Sorry I’ve been slacking later, my life has been moving so quickly lately it’s hard to take a step back and realize what’s going on. My life win this week is probably the same life win for the city of San Francisco. The San Francisco Giants have won the world series once again!!!! Three times in five years, it’s pretty remarkable. All the torture of these stressful games has finally paid off.

Last Wednesday, I got transferred to a different supervisor at my work and the first day of meeting him I asked if I could have Friday off if the Giants win the World Series. Way to break the ice, huh? I even thought it was too short notice to ask but hey why the hell not ask? I got nothing to lose. I didn’t want the bad karma of calling in sick when in fact I was not sick. You may be wondering why did I ask for that day off? Which they allowed me to take off by the way. That was pretty awesome. Well, it was the Giants victory parade and I wasn’t going to miss it like I’ve done in the past.

I left with my family at 4am to get there and pick a good spot. Lucky us (heavy sarcasm), there were already tons of people. It was a very interesting morning, to the degree that it’s hasn’t been raining lately but it doesn’t to pick up heavily that morning. It’s okay though, although we were soaked it’s wasn’t that cold, just a tad uncomfortable. It was nice talking to other Giants fans, and especially to see that the fans are really that committed to seeing and celebrating with our favorite baseball players. Overall, it was a great day. Funny how it was a heavily orange and black day then come to realize when I got back to Sacramento that it was Halloween with kids all over the place trick or treating. Later that night, I dressed up as a surgeon from my favorite drama show, Grey’s Anatomy. It’s been a surreal weak. Here are some pictures my cousin took at the parade.

Tata until next week!

Daniella