As the title says, there’s not a single thing in the world that’s quite like driving down a smooth road, with music seeping through the speakers, windows down, and a smile on my face. I love to smell the scents of each neighborhood pour into my car as I drive through them. I even love the smell of garbage day. It’s amazing to me that so many people can close their windows, and be lost in their bubble of a car. They can be completely unaware of their surroundings, just watching the broken white stripes.

I love how I can drive through one area and the children are all playing in the grass, rolling around, or throwing a simple baseball back and forth, just as happy as ever. Then in the next neighborhood, the children have remote-control cars, four wheelers, and cell phones to keep them occupied.

I love to watch the busy people in the business district. They have their cell phones in one hand, and their briefcase in the other. The women all wear their hair in buns, and the men barely have any hair. They all look so much alike, and they all look lifeless and bored.

I smile as I watch a mother and father taking their infant on a walk though my middle-class neighborhood, the blue bundle fast asleep in his stroller. His parents hold hands, and smile as they speak to each other. However, I also smile while witnessing the less green side of the fence (although, the well manicured lawn is much greener than any lawn in my neighborhood). I watch a woman nagging at her husband with a beer clutched in her palm while he tries to do yard work. He probably deserves it though.

The thing I love most of all while driving though, is looking at other drivers. Eight teenagers are stuffed into a small, white sedan, probably going somewhere very fun. A pair of parents are in a red sporty car with two teenage children, one boy, one girl in the back. They are all screaming along to what must be an amazing song. It brings me back to a wonderful day when Dad took Ricca and me to Sea World, one of the highlights of that day was the trip there. We screamed along to our most favorite songs that came on the radio. I see the two people in front of me making out at the red light, and I look away quickly; I’m not that much of a voyeur. I watch an elderly woman with a flustered look on her face flip a road map around to every angle, finally giving the driver, probably her daughter, a very exhausted look. She throws down the map with a pout, then notices I’m watching her.

I blush and look the other way: the child in back of a black, rusty Chevy must have made his young mother very angry. He’s crying in his car-seat and she’s waving her finger in his face while she’s flipped around from the driver’s seat. Her seat belt is not latched. I wonder what he did, and felt bad for him because I decided she was overreacting.

With all these sights to see, and all these people to watch, how could I ever tune them out? And what do people think of me when they watch me? Well, I have an idea of what they might think. I, sometimes, get lost in my music. I assume I make a spectacle of myself when I do. I sing as I bounce and wobble in my seat to the music. I have even caught a man in the passenger seat of a yellow Corvette making fun of me, mocking me! Banging is hands on the dashboard and wobbling while singing to an imaginary song! The nerve! And even when he saw me noticing him, he didn’t look away like I do. He pointed and laughed!

Maybe one day I’ll be able to admit to the other drivers that I’m watching them like he admitted to me. For now, though, I’ll look away to someone or something else.

Is it that time already? To renew this domain. And this blog with only so few posts. Well, I suppose it is.

I now live with my mom and Dad. While Alex and I wait on the house. This is taking forever.

We’re waiting on the bank to make repairs. Well, we’re waiting on them to agree to make the repairs.

Foreclosures suck!

I just want to be done with this house and moved in already.

I recently took quite the liking to Tetris.

Well, here’s something for you people who think The Simpsons is better than Family Guy. This will prove to you that you are wrong.

Click here for the Simpsons’ lame Tetris joke.

Click here for Family Guy’s funny Tetris joke.

I know I haven’t blogged in a while… I haven’t really felt the need to.

I’ve been keeping myself busy with HTML tasks lately. I just finished a project for my Cute Corner: http://omgcute.itsalyse.com! It’s called OMG Cute! That’s just where I keep all of my wonderful collections. I’m going to make other layouts for it, too. I love making layouts more than doing anything else! Even though my wedding website used a premade layout. I guess my wedding isn’t inspiring me!

Maybe it’s just that Wordpress themes are a pain to make. Yeah, let’s just say that. Haha.

I also have a few more projects I want to work on:

A weekly tutorial blog:
Just about three times a week I think of something that I don’t know how to do, that I want to learn. So I go and search the web. About once a week, I either can’t find the answer, or have a very hard time finding it. So that one time a week, after I get the answer or figure it out, I will post a tutorial about it. Those tutorials will be very random, as you can imaging.

My Neopets Site:
I’m going to be making a Neopets site for myself that has all my favorite games at it, links to my guild boards, favorite restocking spots, etc. It’s not really going to be meant for any visitors, but I suppose it wouldn’t hurt to have some visitor content there. I’ll probably make cute little pixels of Neopets related things for people to put in their shops and lookups.

And I think I should make a collective site, too!
My collective will, of course, just have information on the projects I’m working on and links to all the websites I’ve made/helped develop.

I think after I’m done with all that, it will be time to update the theme here, don’t you think?

It’s so late, and I want to wake up in seven hours to get a head start on my day. I’m getting my nails done and my hair cut. Oh, and my eyebrows waxed, too. I can’t sleep, because I drank an energy drink at work. I was feeling tired at the time.

Alex is asleep next to me. I’m on my notebook. I love Alex with all my heart. His cat is asleep right above his head, on his pillow. He never gets his pillow, she’s always taking it from him. It’s very cute the way she sleeps, all curled up. If his head creeps up onto the pillow she pushes on him with her paws. Very adorable.

As you may or may not know, Alex and I have been looking for houses for quite some time now. We finally found one, and we made an offer. It’s a three bedroom, two bathroom, two car garage home with a den. It has 1,785 square feet of living space. We’re only planning on paying $79,900 for it, that’s what we offered. It’s really close to our jobs. It has a really cute yard and it’s in one of the most adorable neighborhoods ever. On the inside, it looks brand new. I hope we can get it for that price. Right now real estate is dirt cheap down here. That’s really bad for everyone who’s home is being foreclosed on, but it’s good for me and Alex.

One of my coworkers lost their home recently, I just found out about that today. I had no idea he was losing his house. He’s not really a complainer, actually, he’s one of the most fun guys I work with. If I were him, I’d hate seeing somebody like me, taking advantage of a situation like his. The home I’m buying is currently in pre-foreclosure. We’re hoping to buy it in a short-sale process.

The home is a First Home Builders Buckingham floor plan. That’s Alex’s favorite floor plan, haha. It’s also one of my favorites. It has a really beautiful master bathroom. And the house has crown molding throughout, by the way. It’s the perfect house for us.

I feel like I’m becoming way too attached. We don’t even know if the bank’s going to accept our offer. With a short-sale, the bank who holds the current mortgage on the home needs to approve the offer, even though we’re buying it from the current owner. That bank also happens to be the same bank that we’re getting our mortgage to, so hopefully that can work to our favor.