gripe of the day: holiday and post-holiday shoppers and drivers. granted...since i'm out and about at stores too, it makes me one of them, but honestly, don't these people have other places to go?

i'm just trippin' because in times such as these, parking is such a hassle to find...even crappy parking. and for some reason, drivers are suddenly lamer than usual. for example...parking lots with rows of angled parking...it alternates between directions in which you drive - yet i encountered two separate drivers in two separate lanes who were going in the wrong direction, as in driving towards me head-on. i'm starting a new habit...keeping a pad of white paper in the car, along with a big black sharpie - so that i may write "helpful" notes to these sucky drivers - i see this as a community service. :) like...the other day, i was out with my mom and andy, and there was this jeep grand cherokee that was like *this* close to us...i mean supremely close - ridiculously so - and had i had the paper and pen, i could've written something like "i don't think you can get any closer to our car, so would you mind backing off?" i suppose i could just forego the whole note thing and go militant. perhaps a nice bb gun [is that even how it's written...bb? anyway...]

so to combat all the tension created by the whole bad driver encounters thing, i've taken up crocheting and started up with the knitting again. it's quite relaxing and i suggest that everyone try it - boys too [though for you boys, i wouldn't go around declaring "guess what??? i'm knitting!!!" because then people might start to give you funny looks...] plus knitting/crocheting is so much fun! gosh...if only my papasan chair was here at home with me - then it would be perfect! ok...that was my inner granny - i'm better now. but i did get wendy hooked on crochet and now she's like a crocheting machine. chris wanted to learn too, but i think she got distracted by something. :)

so ever since i saw the two towers (for the second time), i've totally been like "i need to know what happens!" [yes *gasp* i have never read tolkien before - no, not even the hobbit, although i saw the cartoon when i was in elementary school - does that count?] so i decided to finally start reading the fatty all-three-books-in-one book that i bought from costco last year after the first movie came out. progress is slow, but it's fun. but sadly, i'm only at the part where frodo has left the shire and encountered the elves on the way to his new house. so in terms of the movie, it's like the first half hour or something. but if you haven't read it, or if you have, but it's been awhile, you should read it! reading is fun and you should all try it. :D

oh yea, and i changed the look of my blog...the whole magenta/pink motif was starting to bug. i was lazy and used a pre-made template instead of making my own and the blue stripey thing is a bit sedate, but it'll do for now - at least until i feel like coding my own background.