my mind has been busy lately observing the many things i dislike about la. i'm becoming a bitter little thang the longer we live here. brett & i went to his follow up doctor appointment last week. it's in hollywood. ick. so it is a given that the parking will be limited and all together crappy. we had a few minutes to spare, but lucky me, i found a parking space right outside!! with a FAILED meter. ugh. so i dropped brett off curbside and continued my hunt for a functioning space. after ten minutes of parking, moving, parking, moving due to failed meters, i finally found a road with multiple openings. i'm just wondering... does the city of la provide all of it's citizens with these grey piggy bank things on a stick next to the road? i fed the meter, nothing. the time did not increase, nada. how freakin' annoying! seriously, i'm a fantastico citizen and i actually call the number on the meter to report the ones that have failed. because even if you can't find any other parking, and take the chance, those stupid little parking police WILL get you! grrr.
next, i'm again/still/always will be forever annoyed by the amount of traffic in this joint. my job is 12miles from where i work. why must it take an hour to get there? or anywhere for that matter. the beach, the airport, downtown. you cannot predict the traffic.
not only that, when you are doing the right thing and following the rules, you still get screwed and have to do 500 extra steps to ensure they (cali gov't) doesn't mess it up. situation at hand: brett registered his car. we didn't report to burbank court that he did. car gets in wreck, unable to open glove box with registration. receive notice that he owes $500 because he isn't registered. yes he is! go to court to straighten it out, three times. appear in front of a judge, twice. go to dmv, 4 times! and now have to wait until december 17th for trial because the judge refuses to listen to his story/look at his evidence. oh my grrrr!
i think with the recent events (brett's wreck) and the upcoming holidays i'm just getting homesick. but i really feel like i have had a wonderful journey the last few years, but i'm ready to retire back to the good 'ol midwest. do i love humidity? snow? ice? no. on the other hand, do i love 100 degree days? no rain...ever? being surrounded by millions of morons? not at all. so then, i guess this is the unofficial, official announcement that i am apartment/house hunting in kansas city. come august '09 i plan to think of california as a recent memory and a future vacation.
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