Bad cats and parking

I mean really? These cats. It's like, "Oh are you doing something here? Let me sit on it." Absolutely ridiculous.

I finished up my sister's ren fest outfit yesterday, just gotta crank out her boyfriend's. Got two days. That's his shirt up there that Greg is using as a bed. Sorry bout the cat hairs bro. Too bad I'm so tired lately! I need energy, too much to do to be a sleepy head. I blame it on this chilly weather (that happens every other day. Texas you are weird!). It makes me just want to curl up under five blankets and never leave.

Also, I just need to give a shout out to my job and it's ridiculous parking situation for making me an excellent parallel parker in the past months. Before this I seriously never had to parallel park and had no idea how to. Parking on the sides of streets? What is this nonsense? At first I would/could only park at the end of rows (those spots are rare y'all) but these days I'm swingin' backwards into tiny spaces between cars I never thought my boat of a suv could fit in. I'm not going to lie, I've got some skills. But I def see why people drive these tiny little cars (or a scooter! I have never desired a scooter so much in my whole life. THE PARKING OPTIONS!). I still have to pass up some spots that are just not big enough for my big ol' xterra. City life is weird!

You win this round, City of Austin.

Well, I got my first parking ticket. I, actually Brendon and I, parked in a obviously marked no parking zone (I swear we didn't see the sign) because two cars (which Brendon parallel parked beautifully between) were already parked there, so we thought it was cool. NOPE. It's hard to be observant in the wee hours of the morning. 30 bones to the city. Could be worse, I'm just glad I didn't get towed.

One of the things I really can't stand about city life is the parking situation. It's not bad everywhere, mainly just central Austin were I work and Brendon goes to school, of course. Free parking is hard to find and if it's available it's usually on side streets where there are a gazillion rules, very few spots, and being able to parallel park (which I am terrible at) is a requirement. Parking garages/paid lots are the alternative but they are ridiculous. But I've only had to pay to park once, $12 down the drain, and I plan on continuing to park for free, legally (I WILL pay more attention to signs), regardless if I have to walk 15 blocks to work. So you can suck it, City of Austin. This will be the only parking fine you get out of me. Hopefully.