this is my mom, visiting me in San Diego, over Memorial Day weekend. Mom is wearing my jacket, she has lost some weight recently and looks great. we spent the day driving around san diego county and enjoying the beautiful day. it was a little chilly but that helped make the day seem clearer and feel crisp. it was an ideal day to watch the kayakers, swimmers, sea lions, and even a couple of dolphins play in the waters of La Jolla shore.

you know what stresses me out? talking on the phone while doing multiple tasks like looking for plane tickets and signing contracts for storage/moving containers and canceling dinner plans. i am a little overwhelmed. it helps for me to write lists of things to do so i can go through and cross things out. i guess i should write a list now but i am waiting for my mom to call me back. i bought her a ticket to come out to visit me before i move to Minnesota but somehow i put down the wrong date and didn't notice until i paid for it (no wonder the price was so good). anyway i called JetBlue right away to tell them what i did and i was able to get avoid getting a $100 fee for changing the ticket (mostly because i was about to cry on the phone) and got my mom the right date, it only cost a hundred dollars more because its for two days from now.
carl left with his dad yesterday for Minnesota. they got to Utah yesterday and are in Colorado today. they are not moving as quickly as planned because the truck is packed to the gills. Carl managed to get half the sectional in the truck along with the large television and the dining room table and most of our art. there was no way for Carl to see out of his back or side windows.
i am missing him. i couldn't sleep last night because of everything i have on my plate now that he is gone. i sleep much better when i have Carl around to help me do the worrying.

We have had quite a morning already. this photo directly above is of Carl being interviewed by Dave Scott, a local news celebrity for KUSI, before the Bay Bridge run/walk started. Well, honestly, Dave was only kind enough to pretend for us while i shot the photo and Carl admired the fact that he did this since Dave must be annoyed by people all the time. (Carl used to hate seeing him on the news before).
the morning was/is hot. the race started at 8 am at by 8:05 i was sweating profusely and worried about the rest of the race but I/we actually did great. The part that went uphill on the bridge was tough but we only stopped once on it and carl had me look over the edge. it made me feel dizzy, probably because my heartrate was 180+ at that point and stopping suddenly when i am that high makes me dizzy and sick.
There were over 8000 participants in the race. It was fun to be part of something that big. carl finished the four-miler in 44 minutes and i trailed behind him 45 seconds later. i really wanted to quit at the end but just knowing that i was almost finished and that carl wasn't stopping kept me going.
at the end we got free tickets to a Padres Game (that we are giving away because we won't be able to make it), a free t-shirt, and most importantly bananas and water! after collecting all the freebies we could we made our way to a ferry that brought us back Downtown. all this before 10 am. now we have to pack some more things because Carl is leaving tomorrow (with his dad who is flying in tonite) to minneapolis, leaving me alone for the week. we have never been apart for a week.

earthquake in china, tsunami in miranmar...

and a man shot at a gas station in Poway, CA. okay. the gun fight wasn't national news but i was surprised that during this last news story to see the gas station prices were up to $4.79/gallon for premium! whoa. its not that high where i get my gas. i believe the last time i filled up it was $3.83.
Carl just filled up yesterday and it was $3.85 and his total was $70.33. this is a new high for him. just a little over a month ago he hit the $60 mark and he was amazed. i wonder if he will hit $80 soon?
anyway, i did want to mention the earthquake in china. it was a 7 point something on the richter scale and thousands are missing or dead. (i just saw that the death toll for miranmar is 128 thousand) one news story this morning talked about how a influx of toads in the city occurred a few days before the earthquake and wondered if this was some sign from them that they knew what was coming. i believe so, but how?

we are packing our things and preparing to move AGAIN. well its not so bad i guess. we did get a three year break between moves this time around. its the longest period of time that i have ever lived anywhere since moving out of my parents home in 1998. since then:

1 year on campus at USU
1 summer at parents home in Logan
1 school-year in apartment with friends
2 months in Jackson, WY
1 summer in Sacremento with brother and sister-in-law
1 year at parents home in Logan
1 school-year at apt. closer to campus
6 months in Escondido with boyfriend (future husband)
2 months in apt. in Hopkins, MN
5 months back at parents home in Logan
1 month back to Hopkins
11 months at Duplex (we own it) in Columbia Heights, MN
3 Years in apt. in Pacific Beach

...and now back to Duplex in Columbia Heights, MN for an indeterminable time. We plan to buy another home and continue renting out both sides of the duplex but who knows how long that will take, probably no more than a year since that has been my history. all this moving has made me a great packer though.

happy mother's day (its on the tenth in Mexico)

happy mothers day para la mujer mas importante en mi vida.

te quiero mucho, mama, y tengo mucho admiracion para ti. tu unica hija, vero.

The Red Bull Airshow

Carl and I saw the 2nd annual Red Bull show (2nd annual in San Diego at least). It takes place today and tomorrow but we got a good view of it today. It is pretty cool. A bunch of pilots compete on a course that has them zigzagging around pillions situated on the water between Coronado and Downtown. The crowds were huge! We didn't exactly know where we were going to see the show from but i wanted to be close to the action with a view of coronado because we had gone to a rooftop bar last year and it would have been a good view had we ever had the chance to get on the outside of the crowd. we had no luck last year but this year we were practically on the water. actually we had to sit on some rocks that left our backsides sore but we had a GREAT view. i took my camera because i wanted to do some photo practice (i definitely need to continue practicing) and i got some shots of the fast moving planes. the show started at 1 p.m. but not much happened until 2 and we left and were home by 3 because it was getting too hot in the sun. had we been more prepared like some of the people around us who had chairs (on the rocks) and food and drinks we could have perhaps lasted longer but we got the gist of it.
i also wanted to mention that the hummingbird baby has flown the coop (nest). I told Carl just last Monday that the bird had gotten pretty big, as big as its mom, and that i thought it would be flying soon, and i was right. I wish we could had seen it fly off but one can't have it all. Now the nest is empty, but i am full of memories (i am intentionally being cheesy).
also, Jennifer moved out to Colorado to be with Rich. She will be staying with him and perhaps when everything is over they will move back. who knows. i guess i have never mentioned who these guys are. Jennifer is a friend i made while working at the YMCA. we became better friends after we both quit and Carl and Rich got along quite nicely too. everything was peachy until late February, or perhaps early March, when Rich ended up getting surgery for what was thought to be just a blood clot in his brain. Well, after some tests came back, and we had all thought Rich was in the clear, it was determined that it was a tumor. Suddenly, and when isn't it, Rich was being moved back home to Colorado with his parents so he could get better care and his parents could be with him, leaving Jennifer here alone.
Initially, Jennifer was told by the mom that she would be a burden on Rich if she came out. This tore Jennifer apart, as it would most people, and we told her that the mother's opinion didn't count unless Rich felt the same way. Guess what? He didn't and he spoke to his parents about it and it was agreed that Jennifer would go to Colorado, but a month after Rich so that she could sell off all her possessions (except clothes) , quit her job, and leave her apartment.
she left on Wednesday night and she made it yesterday afternoon so they are together again.

the photos are from my favorites folder so there's a medley of them. i did this using the picasa picture program that google offers. i only wish there was a way to move the photos around after creating a collage but thats all right.
so i have been sick again. not as sick as i got about a month ago but its irratating all the same.
in the news, last week a man from solana beach who was training for a triathlon was attacked and killed by a shark. its rare that such a thing happens but i understand why some would be fearful of this. i am not, necessarily, going to stop loving the ocean but i know that i wold not have any chance of surviving if this happened to me. the waters around the area of attack were closed right after the attack. i guess the authorities were worried about the shark lingering in the area but nothing else, here, happened. however, in baja a man from san fransisco was killed yesterday. For something so rare it sure was a coincident to have happened again.