candice:1, street:1, rabid animals: 1

after being cooped up in the house all afternoon scanning a million pictures i got a message saying be at berrysweet at 9. and i thought, "hey, why not ride my bike there? my foot isn't swoll' anymore and i haven't ridden since it got tuned up. lets do this."
not 30 seconds into the ride i turn a corner and on the sidewalk is something running along side me and Kingsley(my bike). i tried to out run it but it decided to run under my tire and i didnt stop fast enough. it got lodged in my fender and spokes and jam my wheel.
completely freaked out and repulsed to the hissing and screaming from the animal stuck hanging in my spokes by its neck and front arms i finally saw what it was...
a possum.
those nasty looking creatures are everywhere around here. funny thing is i never even run animals over with my car and with my freaking bike i do?!
so i reversed my wheel hesitantly to unjam the possum but it cant get out. its just wiggling hissing at me. i thought for sure this thing is just going to attack me once it gets free. but after what felt like a minute of watching this thing try and free itself, it got lose, thanked me for not chopping off its head with my tire, and ran off into the bushes.
whats next, seriously? i think im going to have to start wearing full armor when i go out riding from now on.

p.s.- happy first birthday blog! you've grown so much(t.w.s.s.).
enjoy the archives.

this morning

... i snapped this on my way into work. you can barely see it but its there.
rainbow over corona funformentals.
its hot and overcast in corona. make up your mind climate and quit teasing.
i want to start rocking hoodies.

LIVE OAK INN

Friday night boredom = ghost hunting at 1am

destination: El Cerrito/Corona Live Oak Inn
story: back in 1988, a young waitress named Michelle was strangled to death and left in the trunk of an old car behind the back patio of the inn. Rumor has it that Inn's earlier days, people were often hung from the twisted oak tree in front. If you look closely, you can see the tree growing around an old noose

our ghost hosts:








































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So the place looks pretty much at the bates level as far as motels go.
Jason the brave went to the door.
Jen had the flash light on stand by. as a weapon of course.
Natalie was not spooked until we saw the tree out front. with no branches! dun dun dun
And Geoffrey looked stoned, as usual.

Its getting hot in here...

Tommy getting Dan the Man's bday dinner party started
--Candice

Sit boo-boo sit

good dog

resting in peace

last week the oldest man in the world turned 113.
today my grandma died at 67.

I'm really happy for her though. She's with our God. and i got to say goodbye to her last night.
I've never had a real "goodbye" before. where you say "goodbye" knowing full well that you are never going to see them again. I'm a lucky girl to have had a nanny like mine.
my great-grandma was there for her too. its crazy to me to think that my grandma's mom was there to comfort her.

some cute stuff

so yesterday my mom tells me that she and craig (her hubby) just bought a new pup. its called a blue heeler. they get it him in a few weeks.
meet future blue.
pretty stinkin cute.

last week one of my oldest friends rachelle had her first baby.
meet baby harley.
awwww.... he really is a cute baby.
not that old man looking kinda newborn.











natalie: i think i saw something on your porch
me: you were at my house?
nat: what?
me: you said you saw something on my porch, ya?
nat: cheeseburger?
me: i'm so kunfused
nat: k-u-n-fusion
me: what the random?
nat: there's a lemur in new york?
me: idk what they're giving you at art school but can i have some?
nat: torii hunter?
nat: meow meow?
nat: you haz mah bucket?
me: (holding in the lolz in class)

lately i have been stressed out a little bit. which is rare for me to be stress about anything really. anxiety attacks and just lame crap like that a lot lately. so coming home, to what was an already nice time hanging out with friends after my classes, i find a bag-o'-surprises waiting for me!
nerds, waynes world, sticky hands, goo that farts and then some. this is what nats cryptic code was about.
i have some amazing friends who have really been here for me lately and always. just by sending me an email during work asking hows everythings going, praying for me and my family, sending my mom thoughtful cards, making me laugh, and not getting mad at me when i spazz out on them. i love Love LOVE you guys

one thing that is going on is with my grandma. she has cancer for the second time and when they diagnosed it they said she had 6 months. that was over 3 years ago. but she stopped responding to her chemo and then caught pneumonia this month. last week they gave her a week left. and there were days where they thought she was going to go, but she is still here. she believes and loves Jesus so i know she is set. i just don't want her to go, you know. but i do not want her in any pain and this had been a slow painful process of her. luckily she is staying at home with hospice there 24/7 and she is comfortably at home with her dog and we don't have to hang out in a hospital. my grandpa is still living in that house too. he has the final stages of Alzheimer's. that's been an even longer process. getting old sucks.

Brenda's B-day Dinner part Deux

Started the night off with some SGC



meet Ono, "oh, yessss...."



me saving tones from the poisonous shrimps disgusted as a tasty appetizer





then after a 4 hour intermission filled with swollen stomach, fresh baked bday cookies, and the gladiator, we went cosmic bowling.

idk why she looks so scared. b murdered our lane.



old norconians getting their slow dance on in the bar.
question: why are the two different couples dancing so close?



SandStorm came on



his ball is the globe



getting his form down



he just won another chipotle burrito. left handed.



i think our combined scores might have broke 100




this IS their smiley faces

mid september? already!?

sometime between this.... (no joke, the current state of my desk at work)
and this... (hanging with my "nanny" aka gma before the cancer wins)...i shall update you on the craziness that is this last week.


thank you all who have kept my fam and myself in your prayer and thoughts.
i can feel them.
sooo much.

MARIO!

Do-do da do-do do-do. do.
--Candice