It's been awhile...I am sorry.

So, last weekend was Daytona...THE race. I got home from church and was oober bummed out because it was raining and I was so tired, too tired to walk to the nearest bar with super sweet t.v.'s and ice cold beer. You see, the day before I turned the tv to FOX and it was all snowy...bummed out. Anyway, I decided that I would try out the tv, watch the race through the snow. Lo and behold it was a Daytona Day miracle the race was clearly displayed on the tv so for the next couple of hours I would be planted on the couch watching my driver go round and round. Sadler, #19 is my boy. I adopted him the year after Wallace retired, #2 was my car. Sadler had a rough year, didn't even think he would make it into the cup until he jumped on with Petty Enterprises. My heart was real happy to hear that I wouldn't have to find a new driver for 2009. Ok, so the race is happening. It's going good. Super in fact. Sadler races his way to the front of the field after starting 29th or something like that. He is leading the pack with about 50 laps to go. It is looking good. I am effing thrilled, literally on the edge of my seat. THEN half a lap before the caution flag is pulled because of rain Sadler loses the lead to friggin Matt Kenseth. Not a big deal, the rain will pass, the track will dry and Sadler will race his ass off to get a Petty car into victory lane right (something that hasn't happened since 1999)? NO, the race is called. Rained out. BUMMER! Sadler finishes 5th. I realize that this doesn't make any sense to anyone, you probably could care less. But. This is the super bowl of motorsports and I love it. I just watched my favorite get robbed by mother nature. It was devastating. DEVASTATING! Kinda like when Mark Martin was robbed of the Daytona victory a few years back by that lil shit Harvick (Harvick right? Dad?) Whatevs. On top of the bittersweet Daytona experience, Sadler has a pretty lame California Speedway experience today. Poor dude.

The good news is that Kate was in town so I didn't hang out in my sadness for too long.
When Kate is in town it means that we eat good food...scraping our plates clean. This particular meal was a buffalo chicken salad and garlic fries. Real good.

The picture below was taken at Cafe Bernardo by Jerry, Kates dude. She's gonna get married soonish so she flew him up here for a couple of days for valentines day, also to hang out a little bit. Being away from Long Beach means I am pretty detached so it was good to have Jerry here for a minute to get to know him a little. Now that I think of it the 3 of us never got a picutre together...we were way too busy eating good food and drinking great coffee.
Kate brought along with her a little porcelain rabbit with a badazzled ass flap. His rhinestone encrusted butt opened up to reveal a little cubby. Truth be told he made me a little uncomfortable but we got along well. The story goes: Someone at Kate's job won him at a white elephant exchange and now Snort, yes he is called Snort, travels the world with the public health nurses of the OC. He is a traveling bunny. On this morning he was into the Naked Lounge Coffee that I prepared to fuel our day.