La Nouvelle Voiture de Lani.

I can't be any happier. I have finally bought myself a car! Yeah!! I love it. Straight out the show room, I drove my baby home. Tomas and I were gonna share his car for a while, but after having tried to drive stick shift, I said forget it. I want a car that's automatic. I will eventually learn how to drive stick, but for now, learning to drive stick before I start my job...well that's pressure. And driving here in California is crazy. You thought New York was tough. Forget 'bout it.

So last night, Tomas and I drove out to the beach. It was a nice drive over. We wound up going to Laguna beach and to the top of the hills. "This is Laguna, huh?" Well I've visited Laguna before, but this time I got to go up the hills. I believe it's called the Top of the World. Well maybe the locals call it that. When you get to the top, you see everything. It's beautiful. So we were driving along and we came across this street. It was a steep up hill road. We both looked up like we were deers caught in headlights. "We're going up THAT street?!" I ask. Well yes we were.

So we waited our turn to go up the hill. This hill was a monster hill, so each person waited til the car in front of them made it to the top. Now it was our turn. Tomas says go and I ask if I really had to. So I stepped on the gas and off we went. "Ahhhhhhh......" Tomas and I were as we drove up the road. Man, what a rush that was. But after we got to the top, I said I wasn't going down that hill. No freaking way. I wasn't gonna risk messing up my brand new car just to go down some hill. Crazy. No freaking way.

So I kept driving up. Up, up, up. Does this ever stop? Okay, finally we get to a park and I enter the parking lot and park away from all the cars. Come on, it was late and there was only 3 cars. But of course, I'll park away from all cars when I go to Target and other stores. ha ha ha

So we park, take pictures of the car and walk off to view the sites. Wow, this sure isn't Queens. Do I miss Queens? No. I stood there and looked out and this is what I saw. Down below were some mtn bikers. There was a bike trail near by. Will I ride it? Don't know. I don't have a bike anymore. And now that I bought a car, when will I spend 2k for a bike? I guess I'll figure that out shortly.

So while we were looking out, a man and his dog walked by us. They stopped by us to drink some water. We were standing next to a water fountain and below was a doggie bowl. You don't see that in New York. So he walks over and places fresh clean water in the bowl for his dog. We stand there watching the lovely dog and then looking out into the sunset. The man looks at Tomas and asks, "Do you know her?" I looked over at the man and then Tomas. It was a strange question, but we both laughed and I ask Tomas if I knew him. Then Tomas said to the man, "Yes, she's my girlfriend." We all smiled. He said to Tomas, "She is beautiful." I blushed and I said thank you. His voice was sexy. He looked like some movie star. Wish I knew the guy's name. An older gentlemen. And he continues to talk to Tomas and asks if he's in college. He responds by saying no and tells him his age and if he notices his gray hairs. There was some more chit chat as he stood there waiting for his dog to finish and then he said good night and we all parted ways.

California people are so nice, or so they seem. Or was he trying to lour us in and make us shoot porn videos? Was he attracted to my curly hair and boobies? We weren't sure, but somehow it was strange that the man started talking to us by asking Tomas who I was. Is this how you California people act? Cause if it's yes, I'm going to find myself more parnoid than I was in NY when I kept watching over my shoulder for some psycho man to pop out from behind the peed on garbage cans.

Well, I bought a car, yes. And I now feel like a woman. Although with these boobs I have felt like a woman since I was 15, but now that I have more responsibilities, it's just so different. Well, I'm gonna stop now. I'm gonna check on my car for the 8th time in the past hour. :)