Reasons Why We Love LA

Sorry about the sarcasm - I really try not to be sarcastic generally, but it's not working so much.  Anyway, these are currently the top reasons why we love LA:

1. Traffic. We are learning to live with the traffic, but we've never experienced it on a Sunday before.  We left for the church Sunday morning with just enough time to get there and sit down before conference started.  The 2 mile trek usually takes about 10 minutes with no traffic Sunday morning.  However, a major street was closed due to a bike race.  Eventually we got to church - 40 minutes later.  On the way home we thought the road would be opened...but no....apparently it was a really long bike race.  It took us over an hour to drive 2 miles.  Yikes!!

2.  Theft of Bikes.  James came with 2 bikes:  one he likes and another, older one.  He's only been riding the old one to campus because he decided the other one is too nice.  We were planning on bringing it home at Christmas time and leaving it there.  We figured it was just a matter of time until the other, old bike got stolen on campus.  However, we weren't really expecting both of them to disappear while locked in our own secured parking garage.  That's what happened today--BUMMER.

3.  Theft of Newspaper.   We ordered a subscription of the LA Times for the Sunday edition to be delivered back in August.  The first 2 weeks we got the newspaper without problem.  Since then, we haven't received it, although it has been delivered each time.  Every week we notify them we never received it and sometimes they deliver another copy and sometimes they just credit our account. 

Anyway, these are the top 3 reasons why we love LA at the moment.  Ok - don't get me wrong, we really do like living here some days more than others.  I'm feeling especially guilty about my bad attitude especially after President Monsons' talk on Sunday.  We really do have a lot to be grateful for, it's just been an annoying couple of days.  Oh well...that's life.