Enough with the shyness!  I'm getting wreckless this spring!  *Swoon* 

P.S. Happy Thanksgiving!!!

I did some thinking and I honestly don't know how to best describe what happened to me after work.  It all happened so fast!

Me and two of my co-workers were leaving City Hall.  We came out of the back door and walked towards our cars and there was a fire engine blocking our cars.  So, my co-worker, G. said, "Why don't you go ask them to move their engine?"  She didn't have to ask me twice to talk to them!  "How's my hair?"  I giggled, smiled, and walked over to the truck of my car.  I went around the side of the engine - and later G. told me before she even put her stuff in my trunk and looked up, I was gone!  She said, "Christine, I've never seen you move so fast!"  I was already on the other side of the engine talking to the driver.  "Can you please move your engine?  You're blocking our cars."  "Sure," he says. 

"Oh, and can I ride while you move it?"

"Hop in!" 

I B-line it back to the trunk of my car and look for my camera.  I knew I just had to take a picture of this!  My first time ever in a fire engine!  I was more excited than a little kid getting to ride in it.  I grabbed my camera, but I forgot to load the battery earlier.  Thinking the driver, Caeser, would leave me, I threw the camera back down in my trunk, left my laptop, camera and purse laying there and didn't bother closing it.  All the while, G. is just standing there thinking, Oh my God!  Christine!  You just left all your sh*t with your trunk wide open!  I was at the passenger door of the engine figuring out how to open the door.  Caeser was calling from inside, "Come on!  Get in!" while I was laughing hysterically because I was trying to get into a door built for someone at least 6' tall while I'm 5'2"!

Before I know it, another firefighter comes out of no where.  We later refer to him as Blondie (because he had blonde hair), gets in the back seat, and asks G. to ride too.  So all four of us are inside the engine - and the thing was roomy!  I mean, I'm pretty little, but they had all this fancy equipment and glowing screens!  Then Caesar asks me, "So, what are you guys doing around here?  Do you work here?"

"We're the auditors!"  I say.  When I meet people from the street or at a restaurant at the city I'm auditing, I almost never tell them I'm the auditor - I usually tell them I'm a consultant for the City.  I learned very early on that it avoids a lot of awkward conversations and questions like, So, how's the City doing?  How do you respond to that?  I'd rather not air out dirty laundry.

But anyway, Caeser thought that was cool and I, of course, was excited that he thought it was cool!  Haha!  So we're in the fire engine and I'm looking out the window and I already see my co-worker, P. (male), backing his car out and leaving.  He probably was thinking, Man, forget you chicks!  I'm leaving!  and bolts out of there!  LOL!

We must've only drove 10' and the ride was over.  I got out thanked him for the ride.  All four of us get out of the engine and a third firefighter sees the situation and says, "Uh, I can come back later..."  thinking he was interrupting something!  LOL!!!

We get back to my open trunk and that's when I realized, Oh sh*t!  I left all my stuff here all wide open!  G. later jokes, "Yeah, Christine.  You can say to your kids one day that this is how you met their dad:  you left your trunk wide open for him to back his engine into!"  LOL!

I turn around and say, "So, we get out at the same time tomorrow!  You guys can come by!"

"You can actually visit us at the station anytime!  We're at station #1!" Caesar says.  After much talking over, G. and I think we're going to do it!  We're going to show up with a 12-pack of Sierra Nevada and try to get a free dinner out of it.  Firefighters are the best cooks!!!  =)

So, if I can just get a fireman that rides a bike and will take me up in the engine once in a while, I'll definitely say goodbye to the single life!  I'm serious!  This Bonnie Tyler song only hits it home! 

I can't stop smiling!  (=

There are two kinds of break ups I usually two kinds of break ups I usually have:  the kind where I absolutely never talk to the person ever again and the kind where we remain friends.  Although, the former is usually more common for me, I actually talk to one of the guys I used to date on a regular basis. 

He's been married for about five years to a girl he started dated right after we broke up but I love how he gets really excited over my latest single girl shenanigans!  I think it's because he loves to hear about what it's like to be single again.  He was a player back in the day - believe you me!!!  I'm just glad I found out about all his stories after we broke it off.

I'm not really one to quote conversations from AIM, but this first example of our conversations got me cracking up.  Literally for days!  I can't believe he would dream up something so funny! 

[15:23] HIM: guess what

[15:23] ME: what?

[15:23] HIM: haha

[15:23] HIM: ya know last wk

[15:23] ME: what happened?

[15:23] HIM: haha.. i had a dream that we were gonna go out and hang out

[15:23] HIM: then ya flaked on me to go kick it w/ your ex

[15:23] ME: me and you?

[15:23] HIM: haha

[15:23] ME: hahaha

[15:23] ME: are you serious?

[15:23] HIM: yah

[15:24] ME: that is soooo funny!

[15:24] HIM: so i was like...... ok

[15:24] HIM: whatever floats ya'r boat

[15:24] ME: i was actually thinking the other day how i missed our heart to hearts

[15:24] ME: hahahaha

[15:24] ME: lemme ask you this:  how did that make you feel?!?!

[15:25] HIM: cool

[15:25] HIM: but i was tripping

[15:25] HIM: cuz ya flaked me for your ex

[15:26] HIM: why'd ya ask

[15:26] ME: hahaha... dude, because we haven't seen each other in hella long!

[15:26] HIM: yah

[15:26] HIM: too bz

[15:27] ME: i'm curious what i looked like in your dream?

[15:27] ME: or were we just chatting?

[15:28] HIM: dreaming that i was on the phone

[15:28] HIM: haha

[15:28] ME: i don't even have your number!

[15:28] HIM: i wonder if i was talking in my sleep too

[15:28] ME: hahaha

[15:28] ME: you were probably saying my name and your wife was probably like, "who the hell is that?!?!"

[15:28] ME: LOL

[15:29] HIM: she prob. is

A lot of the time he gives me really good advice.  So far, his advice on guys has been 50/50, but his advice on real estate has is really from the heart.  I think he really cares about me taking it easy and not stressing over things I shouldn't have to.  And plus, I just think he wants to know he always has a place to crash in Elk Grove.  Haha!

[15:46] HIM: wassup sexy

[15:46] ME: what up

[15:46] ME: sexy's not here

[15:46] ME: hey

[15:46] ME: check your email

[15:46] ME: your yahoo email

[15:47] ME: i emailed you something

[15:47] HIM: so you gonna call that dude

[15:47] HIM: k

[15:47] ME: in a few days

[15:47] ME: maybe i'll txt him

[15:48] HIM: why you gonna rent out your place

[15:48] HIM: it's just gonna give you problems w/ the renters

[15:50] ME: i'm tired of living broke

[15:50] ME: i wanna buy an M#

[15:50] ME: m3

[15:50] ME: hahahhaah

[15:51] HIM: shit

[15:51] HIM: that's why we work

[15:51] ME: sexy girl in a sexy car

[15:51] ME: that's sexy

[15:51] HIM: to pay our bills

[15:51] ME: i know

[15:51] ME: but i want the nice clothes too

[15:51] ME: looking sexy ain't cheap

[15:51] HIM: atleast you have your own house

[15:51] HIM: it's not about how ya look now

[15:52] HIM: it's what to maintain what ya have now

Life's funny - I was so devastated when we broke up.  Now I absolutely have no shame when I talk to him.  I can even ignore his messages and he'll still come back to check up on me.  I know I haven't seen him in almost 10 years, but I can't really picture life without him.  =)