scared of heights

i’m sitting on the fourth floor of this LA library in downtown LA, and i’m at this part that bridges and the windows let’s you look alllll the way down to the first floor.

i want to move because it’s too high! but it’s so pretty too look at the layout and design of the library. hahaha…at least im sitting down because my legs were buckling standing.

so i was summoned to jury duty on my bday(yesterday)…horrible RIGHT?! basically praying that they wouldn’t call me to be a juror.
sooo, i waited from 7:45am til after lunch around 2:30pm…so far so good….
THEN! around 2:30ish….my name was called along with about 65 other people to go into the courtroom.

the judge told us a brief over view and that it was going to take about 10 days and if anyone cannot do this please give a reason….so one by one the people that had excuses that they couldnt do this case stood up and gave their reasons why…and we had to wait til it reached to all 65 people….about 18-20 people got excused (LUCKY BUTTS) (side note: i didnt think i had a good reason, everyone else’s were about financial hardships and family stuff)….anyways so then they picked potential jurors to sit at the juror stand…and of course with my luck…MY NAME was called…the judge gave us a handout to answer and if we can answer yes to the question tell him and tell him what, why, when, where, who, blaaah….so there were 3 rows of us…and we only got to finish up to the first row(i’m in the second row. middle seat) before he called everyone back for tomorrow because it was already 4pm and they were closing….BOOOOO…some bday morning and afternoon…

i had a little time to cool off from being picked and got home to talk to my sister a little bit before going on a family dinner at THE CRANE – japanese… for my birthday. ate some sushi and then got a dessert at this bakery…

but the FUN didn’t really start until after…my sister michael and i went to target to buy a game to play, and we ended up picking TABOO.
we got home when dillon arrived and we played 3 rounds first to reach 30 pts. PRETTY CLOSE GAME! the funniest/saddest part was that i couldn’t win! hahahhaha took the last round as i paired up with michael and we won by 1 point the VERY LAST SECOND. whew*

the teams:
first round
me and jeh
dillon and michael

second round
dillon and jeh
me and michael

third round
me and michael
dillon and jeh

what a fun way to end the night…especially when i had to wake up to be at jury duty again at 10:30am BOOOO.

today, i reached jury duty…and waited another 20 mins, probably because there was another case in our courtroom that was lagging. when i got in…they started the interview where we left off right away. after the 4th person, i was next! so i said my name, where i live, occupation, and i gave my sister’s occupation and michael’s because i lived with them. (hoping that because i lived with a pastor makes me bias…because they’re looking for jurors to be impartial), then i told them that i had a change of schedule as yesterday my mother told me she booked a vacation for the family next week (since the case was gonna last longer this week). the judged asked if she had already paid for it, and i said yes because it’s for my birthday. he asked, “oh! it’s for your birthday, what would happen if you didnt go to your birthday trip”…(haha…) so i said well i just wanted to let you know, and she told me yesterday to surprise me because it was my birthday.
THEN!!!! a miracle happened, and the judge said happy birthday and asked the lawyers if i could be excused from this case. they said YES…and BAM!! i’m out of jury duty! HEHEHEH best after birthday EVER.

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