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Checking to make sure blogging from my phone is working once again.
-Crystal
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Waste Not, Want Not

That’s how I feel about Daylight Savings right now. We woke up thinking we had woke up late, then realized we had woken up really late. And we were quite depressed about it. The whole day seems to have rushed by too quickly. I’m not usually this affected by the time change but it’s now nearly 2 in the morning and I have an extraordinarily long day ahead of me and I wish nothing more than to be in bed sleeping, rather than in bed blogging (not that I don’t love blogging!).

I had a wonderful weekend with Jeffrey in Camarillo and now I’m back at home to spend the start of my week putting another few hundred miles on my car. Sure, why not? Get me faster to that 75,000 mile special oil change I can’t afford. I’m now only five thousand miles away. And I’m pretty sure I’m going to need new tires within the next month. Another expense I can’t afford. I really hope I get that new job I applied and interviewed for. It would make life much simpler!

Now, I must try to get to bed. Even if I do have the theme song for Top Gear stuck in my head on loop!

Hello, Camarillo

It's so nice to be back in Camarillo for the weekend. Whenever I'm here visiting I always feel happy and at home. Not like how I feel back home, which is trapped and uninspired. There's actually quite a lot to do here. We're 45 minutes outside of LA and Santa Barbara - smack in the middle. Every time I'm here I always try to take advantage of the places we have here that we don't have at home. Like an In-N-Out, which is literally across the freeway five minutes away. At home I'd have to drive 30 minutes out of town. I also really love Ameci's pizza, which we don't even have at home. I'm really considering ordering a super yummy pizza with extra cheese, meatballs and sundried tomatoes. Yum!

Last night when I arrived, Jeff and I went to the Pesto Pasta drive-through (Italian food in a drive through? Amazing!) and then headed over to my new favorite place, Fresh & Easy, for some mango lemonade. I cannot even describe how much I love Fresh & Easy... and the lemonade is quite amazing.

Today we are planning to head into Granada Hills, where Jeffrey's grandmother is staying in a nursing home while she recovers from her knee surgery. Should be a lovely day!

Tsunami Watch

Well I was looking for something to blog about and I had no idea Mother Nature would deliver a topic so tumultuously. We were watching CNN and The Weather Channel last night before we finally went to bed. However, sleep only lasted a few hours, and we have been back up watching CNN and the Weather Channel, and sometimes Fox. Our local news is covering the local impact much better than CNN is. The tsunami is literally minutes away from reaching us and we're basically waiting with baited breath to see what happens. Of course, it won't be nearly as heartbreaking as what happened in Japan last night. But when an event of this magnitude hits you in your corner of the planet, it definitely makes you pay attention.

Oh Man…

This is going to be hard. No wonder people plan out their blogging in advance. I need a schedule or something. I just thought I could make up a topic on the fly but I’m not creative enough for that right now – lol. Plus, I’ve been caught up watching Third Rock From the Sun on Netflix and Googling pictures of Darren Criss playing with my cat, Snuggles.
Will attempt to schedule interesting blog topics so that I have something to talk about for every day of Reverse-Lent.
Hey, I didn’t drink any soda today!

Reverse Lent

I’m not Catholic. I’m not even a Christian. At best I’m agnostic and most days I would call myself atheist. But regardless of your religious views it seems quite popular to celebrate religious-based holidays in a completely secular manner. Lent should be no exception.
I don’t know the meaning of Lent. I don’t even know how long it lasts (although, a distant memory of a Josh Hartnett movie is telling me that Lent is 40 days long). But I am kind of digging the idea of doing something different for 40 days. At first I thought about giving up soda. But a few hours afterwards I realized I was carrying a soda into work. Lent will have to forgive my brain chemistry (read: A.D.D.) Then I thought that instead of giving something up, which can be rather difficult and causes a tremendous amount of guilt, I decided to try to do something more instead. Sort of like a new year resolution that lasts a fraction of the time. So, what is my reverse Lent?
Blogging! I’ve often felt terrible for letting my blog just sit here collecting cyber dust (even though I know no one is reading this right now anyway). So my goal for the next 40 days of Lent is to blog every single day. I realize going into it that this could prove rather difficult, so I’ve already promised myself that I won’t beat myself up if I fail one day. After all, I’m not Catholic.
I think I might still give up sodas though. I’ve discovered this amazing raspberry lemonade that I’m quite fond of….. but I’ll save that for tomorrow’s daily blog.

It is Really Cold Right Now

As I type this I feel as if my fingers may freeze off. I love cold more than I love heat, but I do not love it when I feel as though my fingers are frostbitten. It isn’t even that cold.. in fact, it’s only 54 degrees outside. But inside my apartment is another story entirely. I have a working heater in my bedroom but the bed is blocking it, and my room is simply not big enough for me to reconfigure the bed in any other position. Therefore, I must freeze.

Oh, and apparently blogging from my phone has not been working lately. I just switched from T-Mobile to Virgin Mobile (savings: $50/monthly) and have a new phone running off of Android 2.2. Perhaps I have the blog settings configured incorrectly? And also, apparently my phone is considered something of an “entry level” Android phone. But it’s so amazing and does everything and more that I can’t help but wonder what an advanced Android phone looks like. I imagine that thing could control the Discovery shuttle up at the International Space Station!

(Puts hands under armpits for warmth).

Perhaps I should invest in a portable heater?