desperately seeking air and simple gifts

i have a bald spot in my iTunes listening to that song (thanks Graham) and i love it. though when it was playing at the inauguration last Tuesday, i couldn't possibly just enjoy it as it had to end ASAP so we could get the whole swearing in part over with. but i do so love it and it reminds me that not ALL of Bush's term was painful and jarring - the last five minutes were beautifully verklempt.

have i ever mentioned how awful i am at giving directions... i suck. i hate - HATE - when someone winds their window down to ask for directions. firstly i am from England, i don't know left from right, never mind east from west. and secondly i don't know street names EVER. the street target is on, del taco corner, the intersection of walgreens and fresh and easy - those should be street names... not Tustin Ave in Orange, and Newport Blvd in Tustin. anyway, today someone asked me what city we were in. which sounds totally simple... but no, it was a trick question! you can be in any of three cities within a few steps... and the one city i live in has three other names just to make life even harder. i mumbled "kind of Tustin-ish....?" and of course the man ended up doing a U-turn and coming back five minutes later, as i realized we weren't in fact in Tustin.......... aargh, seriously i need to just be invisible when i walk - my directions and advice are always always wrong.

i am still suffering endless sleepless nights about the Disneyland birthday thing. do i get a pass? and if so, do i get the whole family passes? ' they' say it's the happiest place on earth... and i'm always in the pursuit of happiness. but what if we move to Colorado this Summer? what then??! Danny has never experienced Disneyland like Sam did, and I feel like every little kid is entitled to their share of spinning teacups, riding in the monkey cage on Casey Jr, feeling like a big kid on Go Gadget rollercoaster, balmy Friday nights at California Adventure watching the Electrical Parade before falling asleep on the car ride home. sigh. i don't help matters romanticizing it. it isn't the happiest place on earth... i need to keep this in proportion.

ok enough down time back to turbotax. they are experiencing technical difficulties because they know our W2 arrived today :| assholes. i hate taxes (especially when your state is too bankrupt to actually give you your refund. do you think Arnold will sign the IOU personally?:)