ranking cities i'm familiar with according to things that are important to me

hottest people:
1) LA
2) NYC
3) boston

best dressed:
1) NYC
2) LA
3) boston

smartest people:
1) NYC
2) boston
3) LA

nicest people:
1) LA
2) NYC
3) boston

fastest (walking) people:
1) NYC
2) boston
3) LA

best service:
1) LA
2) NYC
3) boston

most insomniac:
1) NYC
2) LA
3) boston

best pizza:
1) boston
2) NYC
3) LA doesnt have pizza

best weather:
1) LA
2) NYC
3) boston

question

how often do they collect the quarters from parking meters? because i have never seen this happen...

surprise visit!

just right now, the ice cream man came to visit me! technically, ice cream woman. this is incredibly exciting. i don't think the ice cream man has been here in eons. really, i mean it, i think the last time i heard them was in 1992. the truck made two rounds around my house before anyone stopped them, which was me. i frantically ran out and asked for a spongebob squarepants ice cream-sicle kind of thing. they were sold out, so i got a bugs bunny one instead. my mother got a sno-cone. those are pretty good, too. the children in this neighborhood have no idea what an ice cream man is. now, THAT is a deprived childhood.

dont worry, i took pictures to document this marvelous event. post them soon, i lost my camera cable.

conversation about tea parties and puberty

irene: apparently, emily had to go this mother-daughter tea thing in 5th grade at her school where they watched a video about thier changing bodies and passed out tampons and stuff. is that a mass. thing?
taylor: uh, no. definitely have that in irvine. all my sisters went.
irene: i don't think i ever went...
taylor: how'd you miss the mother-daughter tea boat?
irene: it was on a boat?! wow! i definitely did NOT go.