Ode to the Minnesota Roads
Minnesota roads...you stink.
Why do you hate me so with your
ginormous pot holes.
Seriously!
My little mazda can only take
so many more of those.
It shakes and stutters
in the roads that were once so pretty.
Why does the weather
go from cold to hot,
cold to hot?
It's really annoying!
Please Vicksburg and 494
Clean up the roads!
So my poor little (awesome) car
doesn't loose a tire to these...
Minnesota roads.
Haha sometimes I crack myself up.
On even better news, I am officially moving to Utah in just a little over a week. Now Charlotte I know you think in ONLY LA really crazy stuff happens, but just so you know...here's how last night/morning went down:
My dog woke me up at 4 AM for a frigid walk in freezing and windchilled weather because she is sick AGAIN. I seriously have the equal to me in a dog (as far as health issues go). So I put on all my winter gear (sweat pants, boots, down jacket, mittens, hat) and take the dog out. I always carry a really heavy flash light whenever I walk her after dark. Not necesarily to see her better with but more for the comfort of having something heavy I could hit someone with if I was ever in such a situation it was needed (I watch way too much CSI, Criminal Minds, and Law and Order, but whatever! That's not under discussion right now). So we walk out the front door and towards the side yard and I see a squad car driving up the hill of my neighborhood on it's way out. I think
-huh, that's weird. Why is a squad car in my sleepy, and usually quiet neighborhood (except for those pesky neighbor's dogs that bark at 5 AM. You know who you are!).
But I continue and pay no mind until the squad car decides to make a U turn in my neighborhood and drives right up next to my yard and seriously shines his spot light on me. My poor puppy is already uncomfortable enough going to the bathroom, but then a light is shinning on her. She looked at me as if to say
-come on dude! This is embarrassing enough without the light in my face!
So what does Bree do? She waves like a dork to the police officer. I figured, a prowler wouldn't wave so I thought if I wave he'll get it that yes, I am walking my dog at 4 AM. Yes, it's pretty lame to be out here in the freezing cold with her. But when she's gotta go, she's gotta go. So yup I waved. He or she (who knows. I was too tired to care) continues down the neighborhood again with his spot light on every house and yard and he's just passing my house again as we are walking to the door to go back up to bed.
So as I walk into my house a thought pops into my head
-why is a police officer in my neighborhood at 4 AM and spotlighting the neighbors yards, etc? Why exactly would he be looking for prowlers here at 4 AM?
So, with the thought in my head that he's looking for a prowler there is absolutely no way in H-E double hockey sticks that I am going to bed!! Oh, no! The once tired, sleepy, bleary eyed Bree is wide awake to every sound she hears in the house. Every light is immediately turned on and now I'm just sitting in bed twiddling my thumbs because I can't get this idea of a prowler out of my head. So, the dog easily falls back into a lovely sleep and I am stuck in bed flipping through my netflix index until the sun starts to rise and I can turn off all the lights and get a couple hours of sleep before I need to get my day rolling.
Moral of my story:
A) It's a good thing I was already carrying the large-and-in-charge flashlight because now I'm never going outside to walk her at night without it!
B) The dog should really learn how to hold it
So, see Charlotte. MN can be just as crazy as LA...I mean without the whole drug bust and cops running through my backyard and stuff BUT still, we're just as crazy.
:)
I'll miss you Minnesota. Really, I will.
