August 21, 2007 | | Personal stuff, Randomicity

I have about 3 posts that I’ve started in the past few weeks, but then I’ll reread them and think: Wow, that’s boring and then I don’t wind up posting anything. So I’ve decided to just make one post with the highlights of all three instead. Hopefully, that will be less boring instead of three times the boring.

I have been posting in my photoblog more regularly. I discovered the macro setting on my camera (Way to read the manual, huh?) and I love it. Plus I found a tree outside my apartment with a family of lizards living in it. Seriously, there are two babies and a mom and dad. It’s the cutest thing EVER. I’ve put up pics of the mom and dad, but the babies were way too small to get a good shot of.

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I’m a rollerblader now. Thing is, I SUCK at rollerblading. I never learned how, despite the fact that I begged my dad to buy me a pair in high school. I put them on, I fell down and then I put them in my closet and never tried again. If you can’t tell, I don’t really have the patience for learning new things. If I don’t get it on the first try I usually give up. So it’s been hard because I’ve been out 3 or 4 times and still don’t really have the hang of it.

My boyfriend really wants to do this, though. I like to go walking, but he thinks walking is really boring and I can never get him to go with me. But he said that he would go rollerblading and I thought, Why not? It can’t be that hard…

I really wanted to give up after the first time, it was HORRIBLE. But I made myself try again and I feel I have been improving a little each time we go. I am starting to feel like maybe one day I will be able to rollerblade, but I’m still too petrified of falling on my ass to really, you know, roll. I actually haven’t fallen yet and I’m beginning to think that I just need to fall on my ass and laugh at myself and then maybe I can start making some real progress.

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We accidentally (sort of) ratted out our entire apartment complex. Thank god it was anonymous or else we’d be in a world of trouble.

We had to go in and renew out lease last week and they made us fill out all this stupid paper work and blah blah blah. (I had a whole post on this, but like I said, BORING…suffice it to say the people who manage our apartment complex are complete idiots.) So we got to the page about having pets and I said we did have cats and that we paid the deposit (they already tried to throw us out once saying we never paid the deposit). When we moved in they had told us that cats were the only animals allowed. But over the last year or two we’ve been seeing more and more people outside walking their dogs. So my boyfriend asked if they had changed their policy on dogs being allowed (since we assumed they did). But the lady says, “No, dogs aren’t allowed”, and we can’t help it, my boyfriend and I just look at each other like, OK, whatever you say. And the lady is like, Am I missing something? We already gave ourselves away, so I just say how I’ve seen tons of people walking their dogs and that we had assumed the policy had been changed.

Yeah, not so much. The next day everyone gets a notice on their door saying dogs aren’t allowed and that people’s leases will be terminated if found with one. Oops!

Thing is though, if you live in an apartment complex that doesn’t allow dogs WHY THE HELL WOULD YOU WALK YOUR DOG AROUND IN IT? Those people were just asking for trouble so I don’t really feel too bad about it (and it’s not like I named names or anything). I do feel bad for the poor dogs who might have to be given away or have to be cooped up all the time now, but their owners shouldn’t have even gotten a dog in the first place. That’s just plain irresponsible.

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