california's burning, burning

gotta go shoot augustana for writing that song.... it's been stuck in my head all day. know why? BECAUSE CALIFORNIA IS FREAKING BURNING!!!

yeah so we had to evacuate at 5 am this morning. 8 different fires burning pretty much all of southern california and down into mexico. got up and grabbed what we could.. got my laptop and guitar and some clothes. packed it up in all the cars and drove out into the traffic of everyone else leaving.

leaving this morning was like the worst scene in an action movie.. the sky was all black and smokey, ash was raining from the sky, and a line of traffic stuck going up the hill in front of the house while we're all packing up the cars and trying not to choke.

then it was stressful because we got split up.. dad and megan were at the church office and dad wouldn't leave. and mom and the rest of us (me driving my car and her in the van) drove around forever. we ended up leaving my car in a parking lot... i hope it's okay ><

so we figured we'd head north up to a friend's house.. but the 15 north was closed. so we had to take a very very very round about way... with the rest of san diego.

red is the route we took.

blue is the way we would normally go.


basically we drove around for nearly 10 hours... it was almost all bumper to bumper traffic everywhere. EVERYONE had to evacuate. we went even farther south for a while because it was the only way we could go.. and there was more to it than this. so yeah..

now we're finally up here and have been here about 3 or 4 hours.. and now they're saying that this area might have to evacuate too sometime tonight. ugh. and if we don't leave then it's still 10 of us in a house with 2 beds, 2 couches and some chairs... not fun.

luckily they're saying most of the fires by my house have died down.. but the power, water, and gas are all turned off.. they said we can't go back for a day or two. oy.

happy birthday to meee~

DISNEYLAND WAS FANTASTIC.
<3333333


now i need to make some extra $$ to make up for it.

peace!

forget AAA! call tookpick arms 8D

well today was wonderful..... was refered to a special dentist. paid $105 just to have him tell me the tooth that my other dentist wanted to do a root canal on should just be pulled, but 3 other teeth i have probably need root canals. awesome. so now that's 5 teeth to be pulled on my next visit to the oral surgeon. which means i'll have to ask for time off work to recover....ugh. my manager is starting me on 8 hour days soon here. bleh. and opening.. oy.

today i was walking around in carmel mountain and some girl came up and was all "can you help me? you look like you have skinny arms... i locked my keys in my car, but the window is open a crack. can you try to reach in and unlock it?" ...wow. i've never heard that one before. the window was open all of like an inch and a half, but she was able to pull it down a little more while i reached in... and was able to unlock it. she was very happy and thanked me. said she would have had to wait like an hour or something for AAA to come do it. heh..
so that was my super hero moment for the day i guess. HA! having skinny arms is a good thing! i can break into cars >:D .... hmmm.

and tomorrow is my birthday! i'm going to DISNEYLAND! weee~
i hope it's fun and not crowded or raining.... >_<;;
too bad it's only open till like 8 pm... stupid fall hours.

pre-birthday blahs

8 days untill my 20th birthday! going to disneyland with a bunch of my friends :) unfortunately i can't bring all of them because they don't all get along :/ stupid drama... whatev.
i already feel 20...can i just be 21 now? that's what i really want for my birthday. so i can do whatever i want. (haha i doubt that would be the case)

annnd after i get paid again in 2 weeks i'm gonna go get (shhhh) a tattooooo~ ...hopfefully. we'll see if i can make up my mind on what i want. it's not IF i want the tattoo or not, it's just deciding which one i want FIRST...cuz i have like 3 i KNOW i want >< and where i want them, etc... soo yeah. just gotta think about work and having them show.. so i guess i'll get the more covered ones first, then go to more obvious ones once i have a job where i'm indispensable (sp?) regardless of tats and piercings. like a computer graphics job... cuz you ever see those guys on the behind the scenes who do movies? they can do their job looking like they just rolled out of bed! with stuff everywhere! so yeah... that's the plan. roll out of bed and go to work....

went back in time.

the weirdest thing happened to me this morning! i stayed up till like 2am last night.. even tho i have to be at work before 11am.. so i have to get up by at least 10am. so i got up at [what i thought was] 10. got dressed and everything in record time. then go out to the kitchen and my sister is all "it's not even 10 yet" that's weird. i got up at 10... didn't i? told her the clock was wrong. went and looked at the VCR. 9:30. wtf?! go to my room where i swear i saw 10 on the clock... 9:41. (we keep it a little fast). so i figure since i have soo much time i'll turn on my computer to find out the truth. because the computer never lies... 8:34. HOLY CRAP!! *double click* november 4th 8:35 AM... okay really. who is playing a trick on me? jeez. so yeah.. my phone was dead, so couldn't check that. but at least it has time to charge now.
so that was my freaky sci-fi morning... (i think) it's 10:06 now, and i could have had another hour of sleep before work. :( what a waste.