Saturday, October 31, 2009

Police Beat

Halloween started a little early for us, like 4:30am early, when I was lovingly awoken by my drunk neighbor shouting he was going to kill some guy. I believe his exact words were "I gonna kill you real quick, man. I gonna kill you real quick." Hearing this shouted over and over peaked my curiosity, so I immediately crawl over Sam (trying to wake him up) and look out my bedroom window. And what did I see? A guy holding a gun, shoving it in some other guy's face as he continues to shout he is going to kill him. Awesome, I am about to witness a murder.

I turned and jumped on Sam, shouting for him to wake up and call 911 because there was a drunk guy about to kill someone. Now the good thing with waking Sam up in this scary fashion is he gives you an immediate reaction full of jumping up grabbing the blinds and mumbling incoherent words. The bad news is sometimes his nightmares ignite similar reactions so you can never tell whether he is truly awake or just sleep talking/moving.

After getting Sam under control and on the phone we watched out the window for the next hour as the cops showed up, diffused the situation, and arrested one guy. The dispatcher told us to go outside and give the officers our statements, but there was no way I was going to let the hooligans know it was us that called so we chose to stay anonymous and hide out in our house while we spied on the situation.

The Good News: No one got killed, we got some good entertainment for a few hours (even though it affected prime sleeping time), and I don't think anything got traced back to us!

The Bad News: I am tired, my nightmares that deceased after cutting out law and order from my TV watching have now come back, oh yeah, and my crazy neighbor has a gun.

Saturday, October 17, 2009

It was a Brandon Birthday!!!

Happy Birthday to Brandon. Here are a few reasons why we are big fans:

He is brave. I remember growing up I wouldn't even let Connie practice french braiding my hair because I didn't trust her enough to not pull or tangle it all up, and here he is being numero uno guinea pig with the whole I can sew up large fresh wounds. What a trooper:)


He is forgiving. He still likes us (or at least we think he does) even though we bailed on the Moab trip last minute because of the whole studying for the MCAT thing. Silly Sam.

He volunteers so I don't have to. Like that one time when Connie ran that all nighter race and wanted me to be the volunteer, and then I volunteered Brandon to do it and he agreed even though he probably didn't really want to. Thanks again for that.

He is a very good mountain biker.

And he is very smart. Even though he didn't think Connie and I were sisters upon first meeting, but that sort of thing could happen to anyone, right :)


Happy Birthday Brandon!!! We love you!!!