odd smells, scrabble and a drunken wet back.

friday I promised Karen I would watch her kid. Ashley is pretty good one on one so I figured no problem. I have watched her a million times and she hasn't been hurt or maimed yet, so I must be good at it. Karen dropped her off at about 5:00p.m. so we had plenty of time to go to the ghetto park behind my apartment. we call it a ghetto park for so many reasons, but mostly because of the lack of grass, rusty swings, huge metal slide covered in swear words, the empty dime sacks and various needles littering the ground, but mostly cuz of the lack of grass. We had a great time hanging out there for about 10 minuites before a gang member decided to stand by the pool( a.k.a mexican soup) and proceed to urinate into the bushes. I quicky ushered her back in the house. Why can't people just pee in their own homes? anyway, I usually have a no shoe rule in my house, I hung on to it since Japan. It just keeps the carpets cleaner and when you rent and move as often as I do it saves money. So we took off our shoes and I fixed her spegetti-o's for dinner. I made a bowl of soup for myself and we poped in labyrinth for our first movie of the evening, that when I smelled it. it was awful, like the stench of rotting flesh in the sun mixed with old skunk and wilted flowers. was it my soup? nope it smelled like chicken soup, was it her spagetti-o's? Nope it was a diffrent stink all together. we ate in silence while I tried to ignore the smell. I looked over at teh pile of shoes next to the door and thought that may be the source, I only wear flip flops so I knew it wasnt those. I picked up Ashley's shoes and sniffed, oh yeah I sniffed and it was vile. I'm pretty sure I found the source of all evil and it was in her shoes. I just got her those shoes for her birthday! The are little black ballet flats with a bow on them, they look so innocent but smelled of evil. I turned to look at her and she wasn't there, I called out for her and a little voice came from the bathroom telling me she was going potty. I told her her shoes stank so her feet must stink so she was getting a bath in lysol I mean a nice bubble bath. She said okay and then asked me if I could reach the toilet paper for her since she was too far away to get it. I opened the door and was hit with a whole new stench. I handed her the toilet paper and ran to the phone. I called Karen who was well on her way to a party and in san fransisco already. I told her her to come get her kid cuz too many bad smells were comming out of her and I was affraid she was going to explode and hazmat was going to have to be called in. she laughed and hung up. really! I mean how can something so dang cute and little make such a smell? it was mind blowing. I tossed her into the bathtub a.s.a.p. I scrubbed her from head to toe. when she got out she smelled pretty again. but my house stunk. I put her shoes outside hoping that someone whould take em. we finished the movie and ate popcorn and then she slept in my bed...all over my bed I barely had room. But, karen got her at about 7 a.m. and fed her breakfast while I slept. I don't think it's fair that she drops off a stinky kid and then picks up a non stinky kid. I think I was had.

Looks so sweet and no smelly huh?

So After Karen picked Ashley up I got ready and went over to mom and dad's, we always go to suju's coffe house and play scrabble. Auntie Elaine sent us a travel scrabble game for x-mas one year and we adore it and play it all day at the coffee shop. Auntie always finds the best gifts! So I figured I would post some scrabble pics, they arn't exciting but here ya go.

Dad apparently stumpped and biting his nails.

It's like poker, I have to wear my sunglasses and a hood so they can't figure out my next move.
So later that night I went to see Ridrigo d.j. Natalia Rodrigo and I all got dresses up to go to the Ruby room again. That was the place that I got hit on by the dude from green day. I wasnt going to make that mistake again! We got to the bar and while rigo was setting up, we found a table in the middle of the place, so we couldn't be missed. we sat down and crossed our fingers. The only guy who showed up to in my cougar trap was a drunken mexican guy who didn't speek english. Usually I dig the mexican guys, but this one was plastered,not cute and didn't speek english. Just my luck. Natalia speeks spanish so she was able to translate for him. I told her to tell him I was married and to go away. He wasn't hearing that and kept scooting closer to me and talking to me. I couldn't understand most of what he was saying, my spanish is minamal, and the music was loud (thanks Rigo) so I didn't know what he was saying. Natalia got so annoyed with him, she got up and left me there (thanks pal!) while this guy was talking he would put his hands on my leg or my arm and I kept brushing it off. Then I looked over at Rodrigo, caught his attention and he took off the earphones, handed them to Elisa (his c0-d.j.) hopped over the d.j. booth and shoved the guy back screeming at him to leave me alone and not to touch me and that I was his sister and to back off. The guy finally leaves me alone for a little while and Natalia returns. The owner of the bar shows up and sits with us and hangs out for a while. and then drunk mexican guy comes up behind me and grabs my hand and starts trying to pull me off the chair. Nice cuz thats how you get a girl. I guess he couldn't find a club in his cave to hit me over the head with. Normally i would have beat him up, but I didn't want to put rodrigo's d.j. gig in any danger, so Natalia stands up and starts beating him about the head with her purse (it was an over sized prada bag with huge buckles it had to hurt) and the ownere id trying to pry this guys hands off of me. the bpuncer shows up and it's a dang free for all. someone bumped into someone elese and in the grand tradition of Oakland a bar fight ensued. The bouncer ended up kicking 14 people out. we enjoyed the rest of the night in peace. The d.j.'s made good money and since we know the owner drinks are always free. I got a hug from the hot bouncer who kept asking me if I was okay. and then we ate chineese food and got home at 5 a.m. All in all it was a fun night, even being accosted by drunken zorro didn't upset me, it just added some excitment. Next time, I'm getting hot bouncer's number, in all the excitment I forgot to ask for it. LOL Oh well.