While I am definitely not the best driver in the world (not even close to being good), there are some things that drive me absolutely nuts when I'm in the highway.  Of course, because of the recent speeding ticket, I'm lying low on the speeding department.  It's kinda' funny though, back in the Philippines, I woud never think that I would ever drive, ever.  But when I moved here, I can't imagine not driving.  Trip to snowy Utica made me miss driving.  Crazy, I know.  Here is a list of the things people do in the highway that annoys the heck out of me.  It's a bit of a rant post.

Top ten things that annoy me on the road:

1.  Driving slow in the fast lane.  Just pisses me off.  The right lane is free, move your ass to the right.  Why bother everyone else who is trying to go by faster? 

2.  Driving too close to me from behind.  Makes me want to break check every single time.

3.  Drivers who change lanes or turn without signalling.  I just think it's rude.

4.  Drivers who do not turn off their signal lights when they're done turning.  Blinking lights annoy me.  I know, it really doesn't take much.

5.  Motorcycles in the highway.  I'm sorry, this is a prejudice.  Whenever I see a motorcycle in front of me, I have this urge to "tap" him, which I have never done by the way.

6.  Drivers who can't stay in their lanes.  Get away from me!  You are very dangerous, and I can't say I will get out of your way.  Srsly.

7.  Drivers who can't figure out which lane they want to stick to.  I mean, everybody's almost going the same speed cos of traffic.  So really, switching lanes too much is just annoying to watch.

8.  Drivers who block traffic when there's no traffic in front of them.  It's a two lane road, why do you have to go the same speed as the person on your right?  You're in the freakin' left lane dude, go faster!

9.  Rubberneckers.  Get on with it.  If you want to gawk, go park on the side of the road. 

10.  Drivers who harass me.  Yes, I've had a few of those.  Funny, I only met them driving down hwy 54.  Do I honestly look like I am looking to race anyone?!

Tell me, what's your annoying driver stories?  Hopefully I'm not in it. lulz.

Yey driving me!

Hello world of Tabulas, it's me Cigarette girl.

I have been out of the blogging world loop for so long.  Heck, I'm not even active in plurk anymore.  I've been trying to keep posting photos in flickr, but my commenting skills are horrible!  I have neglected the net world really.  I blame this largely with work.  The nursing homes have been keeping me busy.  When not at work, the real world takes too much of my time.  There's all those trip with the bf, trips with friends, and of course shopping (not just of nursing scrubs).  I'm so happy we are not required to wear uniforms at work.  Don't get me wrong, I like wearing scrub clothing.  It takes the pressure off thinking what to wear.  And I don't look to bad in scrubs either.

See?  Not too bad. heh.

But I digress, the plan for 2011 is to get back to blogging once again.  Hopefully this would be easier cos I need to spend quality time with the lappy now.  Grad school does that to you.  And this will be the year when I take too many trips, and spend way too much.  Hopefully, this would be the year when I get to be the most productive (as compared to previous years only of course).

It feels a little strange being all grown up and having all these grown up responsibilities -mortgage, car payment, school, taxes (yes, tax season will be upon us soon), and work.  I have been dependent way too long possibly.  All I need now is to start a family, and I'll have all the grown-up things-to-do checklist done.

Enough with the rambling.  Instead I will leave you with this photo to end my first entry to 2011, because I still ahve a thing for chirstmas ligts:

A few weeks ago, we went to Tarpoon Springs for some yummy Greek lunch.  First place we saw was Mykonos.  I picked the place cos I saw the restarant was still full at 1 pm.  I assume full restaurants mean good food.

I ordered the Papoutsakia having really no idea what it was except its eggplant stuffed with ground beef. 

As always, first came the homemade bread, which was pretty good.  I wish it was served warm though.

Then came the food.

It looked awesome.

At first I thought it was too um, soft.  But the ground beef in the middle made a load of difference.  The serving was huge though, so it was really worth the price (which I forgot how much. lol)

Sunday morning, we woke up in the apartment with no coffee.

Ok we do have coffee in the can, but breakfast date is a coffee snob, and prefers it brewed.  No, I don't own a coffeemaker.

So at 8 in the morning, I was woken up, and harrassed to go out for coffee downtown.  Downtown is about 15 minutes from where I live (if we drive like turtles).  With $10 between us, we went out to look for decent coffee.

Given this is Florida, on a sunday, and New Port Richey isn't exactly the "city", I wasn't expecting too much on this coffee trip.  To be honest, I wasn't even sure if anything is open at 9 am.  So, I was pretty surprised when we saw this quaint little place open.

We never got to meet Christine.  But we did love the bottomless coffee, yummy french toast, bagels, and bacon all for $10!

I'm starting to like this little town I live in.  Hopefully we get to explore this place more on weekends.

Trying to get this blog back up.  Sortof.  Guess what?  I don't need to work now!  Apparently, I'm rich!  At least until after I contact a certain Mr. Curtis Hacketti Barr, who can give me £9.8million.  Woot-woot.

What?  You don't believe me?  You think I lie?  Read this and weep!

See?  See?  We bear a similar last name!  I am Janine Robert.  Yes, I just had it legally chenged like 64 minutes ago.

So anyway, beacause I am rich, I can now blog all the time.  After I get done with my hundred thousand pounds worth of shopping.