Hindi group is growing

We had 62 or 63 at our meeting today! So exciting. And a Brother from New Jersey gave the talk. He is a very good speaker. (He can speak Urdu) He spoke clearly and didn't use to many big words. This was the first time I actually followed the talk from beginning to end. (of course more than half the words I didn't know, but the general subject of about every 5 sentences I got!!) I am sure the visitors must have enjoyed it. Soo exciting seeing so many people come.

I am looking forward to this awesome Florida talent performing tonight at Tatame! The Phlauds will be performing along with new special guests!

Pas Secret (pas de secret...) has an almost official practice time so we'll be playing again hahaa someday...

Fitness magazine has an article 6 wks to a 5k!! I almost completed wk 1. (hehe a 5k is only 3 and a little miles- but it sure sounds intense!!) At first I couldn't believe how much they make you walk-- but whatever...you actually read a book while doing it!

oh my oh my!

1 of the 4 employees at my work quit today with no 2 wks notice. Then the other one decides not to come to work. My boss yells "alice, tif no more work saturday, you work saturday now." ahhh "i'll see if I have any openings in my schedule, gotta go its 10:32," and I ran out the door! If he would just ask nicely one would be so much more inclined to want help him. But the provoking with fear- that is what makes me turn off my phone to ignore your trying to make me feel guilty. I do feel bad, but I also need like 30 hours in field service time this weekend. Service group will not be breaking there that's for sure. Ah what  a sad coffee place.


Went out in service after work- turned into a long day! It is so nice having a big group!

Ahhh Wisdom teeth removal-I rescheduled the appointment too many times. But they do really start to nag. A happy start to June....

I have a feeling Vi is leaving her most loved Coffee shop job. I am going to miss her. Aww. No more hard boiled eggs and 5:30am wake up calls. ohh and the 7:30 am naps...Back to working with the ever so hard working boss. He just called me and asked if the cooler was called a refrigerator- correct. Well it was fun while it lasted vi.

Been making an effort to respect copyrighted music. It's really hard- I have hardly known anything besides all these random "free" downloads. But hey guess I will now really appreciate the CDs I get!

Rockin' the Crocs

Crocs are the most amazing shoes ever! I had been excessively borrowing Nina's and wearing them to work, that it was about time I get a pair. They came out with this new crocband flat that looks like a ballet flat/sneaker. They sell them at Journey's. They are so cute and they are so comfortable. PLUS they are antimicrobial (and erogonomatic-someone told me that meant good for the spine.) So they won't smell bad! Now all my other shoes feel like standing on cement. I got a pair for my mom off ebay, from China, for half the price. I hope they come...

mariachi band- AWESOME wedding

farewell Latifah. Pas Secret debut

quite a bit of stripes...hmm

Alligator

Oh my today me and Nina saw an alligator at the park! So crazy. We were like, hmmm, 15 feet away. We starred at this thing that looked like an alligator head (or possibly a tree root) for like 10 solid minutes to see if it would move, but it didn't! Then we told some other lake observers about it and they were like yeah its an alligator... 2 minutes later...no its not an alligator it doesn't move. Then they got really close and you could see, its now clearly defined, big round eyeballs and the tip of its nose slowly descend into the dark lake. It was so scary.... I wish I got a picture.

herbalife anyone

My boss is so unique. He is trying to sell all the regular customers this protein herbalife powder which he swears by- by telling them they need to lose weight. It is really bizzare. This one customer was like "are you calling me fat?" then my boss was like "no, no maybe for your wife! you could save money because you won't need to buy meat and you won't be hungry after you eat this." I don't even think this is like a money scam; I think he just genuinely believes this is the best powder ever and wants everyone to have. Well it was an interesting morning to say the least.

My car got fixed! I got the tires rotated today and apparently it no longer needs an alignment. YAY

Modesto......

After being lazy bums and sleeping in and watching cable-cable is sooo addictive- TV till 3pm, we biked like 9 miles! It was so much fun. There are such pretty trails. This one trail there was seriously a 5 foot dip, but I went around it because it looked too scary. Then we took a break and started making a dam over this river. (like the kind beavers make). Once when me and Avril were on a trail in Alaska we found all these precut logs; We were pretty sure that a beaver had cut them. Then we started piling the logs so we could walk across, it is so much fun, we did it for hours!

There is a Punjabi Group 5 minutes walking distance from their home here. I went there yesterday but they had there assembly this week so they weren't there. But the Kingdom hall doors were unlocked so I got to go in and I found a stack of Punjabi tracts. Well I gotta go hehe movies on cable tv....

at the mall!!!! in CALIFORNIA...stone ridge to be precise

CITY

San Francisco has been such a blast! It is such a beautiful city. I love all the hills and at night the lights. Apparently this famous graphic artist was here a few days ago and put random drawings all of over the city-I guess its a pretty big deal here. We went with people from the hall to search for them. The Kingdom halls are so tiny here. It is like the size of 1/10 of the one in Florida. There are so many things to do here! I want to just sit and read a book in the perfect weather park, but I have a whole list of must do things.

My cousin and her family are very nice and they all just went out of town so we have the whole house to ourselves. Except they have so many animals. I love animals, but these animals are a lot of work. We have to walk the dogs and then they pooped on the carpet...yuck..and then the poor cat has a thyroid problem so I have to wrap its little thyroid pills inside of this rochetta meat paste twice a day. I like the fish all it needs is 1/4 of a tablespoon of food in am and pm. I hope the cat is okay because it only ate its thyroid medicine paste twice since I've been here. Oh and they have this other cat.... Sumo kitty! He is huge! and black and won't budge. He acts like he owns the place. We tried to get him to move off the bed and eventually after him batting at the pillow we used to push him, got him off. But then he just sits there meowing and batting his tail back and forth that we are so afraid he is going to pounce on us and attack our heads! it is so scary.....

There is such a beautiful view outside of the window here. It is of the city and all the lights and hills. WOW what a lower body work out these hills are. Goodness getting the luggage up the hill was insane!!! I love being able to walk places and not have to drive a car. It is a nice change.