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Proud single mom of one beautiful daughter who shares my love of sports and music. She doesn't share my love of the outdoors which I find weird. I love photography and wish I had a better camera!! Maybe someday...
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Thursday, July 28, 2011

7/21/11 State Fair! I've Been Around...Does that mean ( I'm) a bad girl?

Wow...I really can't believe that I am this far behind in posts.  I still have Sharks games to edit and post!!  That's what happens when a major shakeup happens in life.  So my "diary" - which I vowed would never be posted out of order - is now going to be crazy, messy, and -- out of order. 

Especially since my photo cd's are lost in the thousand boxes I currently have littering my home and the storage unit I had to rent.  Which reminds me...need to pay my storage rent...ok done.  Thanks for waiting.

Hopefully I will be able to get my shite together soon and find my photos which are precious to me.  But in the meantime, here is the latest in the out of order events of my life.
After working in the morning and then prepping for the adventure by taking a nice nap, Adie and I headed to the fair at about 2:45 p.m. The plan was to arrive just in time to see the fmx demo...but traffic and stupid parking rules/lack thereof dictated otherwise. 

We arrived at the end of the demo, just in time for some backflips...but not in time to get in a good position for photos.  Happy to see that the riders were still two of the old standbys - Tommy Clowers and Myles Richmond.  And a "local" whose name I did not catch.

It was pretty hot, so we quickly headed for the indoor exhibit buildings.  We don't do too much on the midway...Fair time is usually all about the exhibits, horses, shows, etc., as you will soon notice.

Thursday, April 7, 2011

Nostalgic for Disaster ~~ Oakland Supercross 1/29/11

Once upon a time back in the day when I actually had free time and money,  I went to as many MX/SX/FMX events as I could.  Fun times resulted as well as some ridiculous drama.  For the record, I definitely don't miss the drama...  But I do miss the bikes and riders and smell of premix in the morning.

So I decided to have Whit work for me and take the day off from responsibility to head over to Oakland for the AMA Supercross.  Well, part of it anyway... 

No one was available to watch me mum, and  Adie had to work so I had to head back to be home to help her with dinner and get her ready for bed.  BUT I was able to wander the pits and watch practices in the rain and generally have a really relaxing fun time.

So here, without further ado, are my photo memories from that day. As I mentioned, it was chilly and raining - at times fairly significantly.  So pictures were hurried, camera didn't like to focus and I didn't like to take the time to make it focus.  Sos you gets what you gets.

The day didn't cost much except for the commute costs since I had a free ticket; when I got there shortly after 12:30 p.m. there was a practice going on so I stopped there first.