Change

At the end of every year, before the New Year comes upon us, I do some tossing & rearranging. Today,this process began with my desk area:

There were many problems:
The desk itself belong to my ex boyfriend and I didn't want it around. Bad juju. It has two levels and I was constantly creating clutter.The clutter spills then to the ground around me. I also did not want to look at it any more. So, I decided to switch it with a table that I have. I realized that I tend to work better with a flat surface. So, I dumped everything from the desk in a box and immediately moved the desk.



















Some one found the empty desk useful!









Once I traded the desk for the table I began to get rid of tons of papers, old bills, receipts and more useless crap.
One thing lead to another.
Midday, it was clear to me that my spring
cleaning was happening in November.
It was quite the accomplishment.
Very tiresome. But well worth it.
I also finally finished a cork board I had partially assembled.
What just started with the "I want to get rid of this desk" idea,
ended up in me getting ready for the new year.

The End result:






















Now, Time for bed!

Colombian Food...

Is awesome! I haven't posted about food yet and what better way to start with food from where my family is from! I visited Bolivar in Chatsworth, Ca. I'm so lucky. This place is 3 miles from my house! Fast service and the food is excellent!! I can not stress that I do not visit this place often enough!!

Appetizer : Empanadas (Meat turnovers)
I love these!! I can eat six in one sitting!! To drink, a Colombiana (A soda from Colombia. I don't know how to describe the taste but I've been told it tastes like apples.)

Appetizer with a light salad


Entree : Beef, Potatoes & Yucca topped with red tomato and onion sauce. A Side of white rice and an Arepa (A corn-patty)

I'm still drooling!!

O'Melveny Park.....

is gone. Burned down to the ground by the Sylmar fire from two weeks ago. I went there yesterday, knowing that the fire had damaged that area. But I was not sure how bad the park was affected. On my way there, I noticed one jogger in particular who I use to see when I jogged at the park. But he was jogging on the side walk of a busy street, like many other joggers and bike riders that day. As I drove down Balboa Blvd in Granada Hills, and I could see the damage from the fire on the hillside, bare, with chard twigs that were once trees or bushes, sprouting from the ground. That entire area still smelled like it was burning.
Then I saw O'Melveny Park. It was awful. No grass, No trees. What was the sign at the entrance of the park, now stood two blackened poles. The whole front was covered with yellow "Do No Cross" tape. I wept uncontrollably at the destruction. I had spent a lot of time there after the loss of my job in late 2006. And now I feel like the community, as a whole, lost endless amounts of memories. No more coyotes, rabbits or rattlesnakes. No more trails. No more challenging jogs or bike rides. nothing. It breaks my heart how careless people are and the outcome of that carelessness.
I wish I continued visiting that park.
Luckily I have photos from one hike :


I did not take any photos of the damage. I was an emotional wreck and I had to shake the images that I saw that morning.I still felt helpless but I needed to see something else. Then I remembered how close I live to the E.T. House, in Tujunga. Yes, the house where Elliot cared for his friend from another world.
Since it was a holiday, the freeways weren't all crazy. So I went home after my trip to the park and googled the house. A 20 minute drive later, I found the home that is ingrained in my mind from my childhood.

I couldn't believe my eyes. I was star struck by a house! I wanted to scream and jump up and down, but I had to hold it all in since it was a quiet holiday in some one else's neighborhood.
A very strange and emotionally filled Thanksgiving.

I can Haz Chare?

~This morning,I walked away from my computer only to return to find that the Chair Thief Supreme has struck again!~

"oh hai! i keps wrms for U!"

"srsly, look into mi eyez, u forget about the chare"

"hey!what's dat?"

"cool,i distrakted her"


"nows i kan haz sleps"