The Neighbors Moved

Yup - the neighbors directly across the street moved - thier house! Check out the picture. The house is so old it didn't really have a foundation so they picked it up, moved it to the side and will put in a foundation and basement then move it back. I knew this would occur, but they've been working on it for months and nothing ever looked like it was going to move. Then last week as I was leaving for a run, I looked up and bam! it looked like this. Woah.

Another tidbit to note is that before the house was moved, they had dug out underneath it. During a couple month lapse in activity there was a freaking mountain lion living under it. Yes - a mountain lion living less than 15 yards from my front door. I was getting the creepies pretty bad when outside at night for awhile, and just blew it off as being a scaredy cat. Well, apparently the creepies were real. They actually saw her, she is a beautiful, healthy looking, smallish female lion. Probably no risk of a human attack, but I am sure some neighborhood animals got it. She's long gone now, but she must be the cat all the trail signs were all about.

Fuck and Run

I never thought I would dig someone like Liz Phair, but someone put this song on a mix CD for me. Here are the lyrics:


I woke up alarmed
I didn't know where I was at first
Just that I woke up in your arms
And almost immediately I felt sorry
'Cause I didn't think this would happen again
No matter what I could do or say
Just that I didn't think this would happen again
With or without my best intentions, and
What ever happened to a boyfriend
The kind of guy who tries to win you over, and
What ever happened to a boyfriend
The kind of guy who makes love cause he's in it, and
I want a boyfriend
I want a boyfriend
I want all that stupid old shit
Like letters and sodas
Letters and sodas
You got up out of bed
You said you had a lot of work to do
But I heard the rest in your head
And almost immediately I felt sorry
'Cause I didn't think this would happen again
No matter what I could do or say
Just that I didn't think this would happen again
With or without my best intentions, and
I want a boyfriend
I want a boyfriend
I want all that stupid old shit
Like letters and sodas
Letters and sodas
I can feel it in my bones
I'm gonna spend another year alone
It's fuck and run
Fuck and run
Even when I was seventeen
Fuck and run
Fuck and run
Even when I was twelve
You almost felt bad
You said that I should call you up but
I knew much better than that
And almost immediately I felt sorry
'Cause I didn't think this would happen again
No matter what I could do or say
Just that I didn't think this would happen again
With or without my best intentions
And I can feel it in my bones
I'm gonna spend my whole life alone
It's fuck and run
Fuck and run
Even when I was seventeen
Fuck and run
Fuck and run
Even when I was twelve

The Lost Post

I just spent about 20 minutes writing a post and it just got deleted. Fuck that.

Hell's Belles

Hell's Belles is an all girl AC/DC cover band. I saw them for the third time last Friday. I do not like AC/DC or all girl bands, but apparently I can't get enough of the Hell's Belles. They are awesome and every time I see them I have a blast. Perhaps it's because it's the only metalish show I can get my friends to go to with me. Either way, if you get a chance, go see them.

Rough Morning

It's been a rough morning. It was all good until my alarm went off at 6:30 and I changed it to 7:30. In that last hour of sleep, or more likley, in the last few minutes of sleep I dreamt about when an ex-boyfriend told me he wished I was more hip and cool. I never found out exactly what he meant by that. Having been a geek/nerd my whole life, I'm not sure that hip and cool are things I want to be, or if they are even attainable to someone like me.

Why do I even care? Apparently I do, because the whole scene has been on repeat in my mind since I woke up.

Here Kitty Kitty...

I've been trying to go running every other day for the last few months. A week or so ago the park people put up signs all over stating that there had been recent mountain lion activity in the area. This happened on the dirt trails near my house which isn't suprising, but there was also one on my running path!!! I am surrounded by ferocious beasts. The coyotes, racoons and giant elk aren't scary enough, bring on the creature that can kill me with a single bite!

I feel somewhat confident that a lion is not stupid or desparate enough to attack me on my mountain bike. However, if you have ever seen me jogging you'd know that I would be a prime target. I run slowly and probably look like a wounded animal while doing so.

I do not like to think about entering the food chain when I go running. I guess that's the end of morning/evening jogs. I am only going at noon when the kitties are sleeping.