Plus, he’s hot

I said ” How was it?”

Mike: ” I wrote a ticket to a 17 year old in a grey Volvo”

My jaw dropped. “Was it a C-30″?

He looks at the ticket, “Yep”.

I asked, ” Was it a boy?”

“Yep”.

Increduously, I said “you wrote a 17 year old boy in a silver Volvo C-30 a ticket”.

“Yep”.

“What for?” I asked, somehow knowing the answer already.

“Speeding”.

I had to know…”was his name Edward?”

“No, it’s Zach”.

Well, you know those Cullens with their multiple accounts and identities. I never pictured them in Rancho Palos Verde, but I guess it’s pretty foggy and overcast this time of year.

Brandon’s off to Dubai, Kuwait, and/or Iraq. He didn’t volunteer the info and I didn’t ask. Hopefully it’ll be less stressful this time, for all of us. Mostly me and him.  At least the weather’s good. Maybe I’ll get another rug. He called and I missed it, so I probably won’t hear from him for months.

Brandon leaves, but Rob is back. 62°F in L.A. Chilly for me, but I’m always cold if it’s below 70. I guess I won’t be at the Oscars since we’re camping and Mike is on call to the Major Accidents Investigation unit all weekend. Oh well.

I usually dislike beards intensely, but I don’t even care in this case.

Well I picked up and browsed through 2666 and that sucker is over 900 pages. In a pretty small font. There’s no way I could commit myself to go sans Edward that long. So I got The Savage Detectives instead. I heard it’s a better book anyway. I’ll probably try to read it after I finish the Twilight saga again. I got the Twilight books in my apps on my iTouch, so I don’t even have to carry them around anymore.

Now that it’s Friday, it’s as quiet as a mortuary. I guess I should enjoy it while it lasts.

Millard Livermore

January 28 at 4:11pm

1,523 friends…..slut !!!

Tania Maloney

January 30 at 1:06am

I know.
Some are kind of stalkery.
My favorites are the Asians….so damn chatty.
I can’t believe Andrew added me. He must be growing up. And Brandon finally added me to his Myspace. Now that I’ve seen him drunk on numerous occasions. Plus I helped him clean up his friend’s barf last night (he’s home for 2.5 weeks). Do you have Twitter?

Millard Livermore

January 30 at 2:41pm

Do I have Twitter ?..Yeth I have two… a cardigan and a cathmere one. Why do you athk ?

 

Tania Maloney

January 31 at 2:23am

R u speaking luddite?

How sad is it that I’m replying to you via iPod touch whilst lying in bed, listening to 20 year olds get drunk and try to play wii rock band?

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Millard Livermore

January 31 at 11:33am

What’s the sad part ? Oh nevermind, I know, it’s having to hear the Guitar Hero version of Barracuda for the 80th time.

I LOVED the sound of drunken 20 year olds in my house…it always meant they weren’t splattered on the highway somewhere.
Can’t tell you how many Sunday mornings there were where they were stacked like cord wood in my living room…all safe and sound..and smelly.

I think the sad part was the time…2:23am. At 4:00am, 3 were still playing Rock Band, 4 were eating Jack in the Box, 1 was out on the floor with writing on her arms, and Andrew was on the couch taking it all in. Unlike wednesday night when he joined them playing Beer Pong and then Mike having to throw him out the door for school in the morning.

Sad, too, is that it wasn’t that long ago that I was one of the 20 year olds…

Mostly, I just love my iPod Touch.

Millard Livermore

February 1 at 1:30pm

Can you play Beer Pong on an Ipod Touch ? I’m still way behind the curve with my 80 gig Classic.

Oh…and it was that long ago….sorry.

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whatever.

I happily watched music videos and played games on my iPod during the Super Bowl because I wasn’t even remotely interested in either of the teams. I even re-watched my favorite commercials (yep, they were already posted). It sucks that L.A. has no football team, but not as much as it sucked when we had the Raiders.

And I also watched the youtube video of 350 pictures of Rob Pattinson in under 3 minutes a few more times because he’s so pretty. Thanks to unintended choice at Letters to Rob for that. source

 

Andrew graduated high school (he’s singing at graduation, second from left)

Brandon has spent the last 4.5 years in the Navy, but will come home for good in August (after 4th deployment to the Persian Gulf)

Ashley’s going to Boise State and working at M.A.C. (pic with Andrew)

and we have 2 new babies:

Cracker

and Dozer

So, back to Twilight.

It took me a while to get into the first book, but once I did, I couldn’t put it down and rushed out to buy the next 2, which I read in 2 days. Then I borrowed the last one, and I still have it ( I did give the borrower a brand new copy of it….I just couldn’t return it, having read it 3 times).
As of now, I’m in a vicious cycle of reading all 4 of them and starting all over…..over and over again. Except now I read the partial Midnight Sun while I read Twilight so I can have it in stereo. As much as I love Edward (and I do….way more than Bella does, especially after the movie),  he can seem a little bi-polar. I guess when you’re that pretty, you can be pretty much anything and I’ll love you.

reminds me of this one:

big city motor cop

Anyway, Brandon graduated high school, Andrew graduated middle school, Mike is working on an anti-gang task force at night, and I got to go to Las Vegas for Takala’s bachelorette party. Fun times. I stayed with my bestest friend, Barbara, and we had such a great time together.

Well, it’s late and I should try to sleep, even though I have a headache from paint fumes…………..toodle-oo.

We’re off to Laughlin, NV for a golf tournament. Boy do I need to get out of this house. The building inspector came and signed off on our drywall, so we can tape and mud it now, then paint, put the plug covers in and get the final inspection….YAY.

I talked to Takala today and she and Tarik are getting married August 20th in Maui. Can’t wait. Mike & I are going on a cruise to Ensenada August 13-16, and Mike & Brandon are going to Cabo in for deep sea fishing in June. Andrew goes to D.C. in April. We also have a campout in Oceanside Easter weekend (4/9-4/11). Then we go to Sequoia in July to scatter Dad’s ashes. We are definitely going to be busy in the coming months. 

Andrew is so upset because he can’t use his computer on weeknights because he got a bad progress report. He’s supposed to be going to Washington DC next month. He’s also going to Catalina with his Soc. Studies class, and he has a concert Wednesday with the All-District Band. Brandon pretty much seems to be justy waiting to graduate, Since he signed up for the Navy, job hunting went out the window. He’s going to Boot Camp 6 months from yesterday. I’m going to be a mess.

 Mike has been working on the garage, and it’s close to being done and getting the final inspection. Finally.

 Last night the rising moon was the most huge I’ve ever seen it. It lasted about 10 minutes, but that sucker was LARGE. It was really hot today. It felt great……….

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