Monday, April 21, 2008

You know you live in Southern California when...

Some friends of ours who moved from PA to CA sent this list out in their last Christmas Card last year (plus I added a few things too!) I thought I'd post it to give you a picture of what my life is like here...

You know you live in Southern California when...

~You own both summer flip flops and winter flip flops.

~You get cold at 70 degrees.

~You know the difference between flautas, taquitos, gorditas, and carne asada.

~You think that $3.75 for a gallon of gas is a bargain!

~"No Shirt, No Shoes, No Worries!" is a common sign outside many restaurants.

~Half of your radio stations are in Spanish.

~Your winter coat is a sweatshirt.

~The Terminator is your governor.

~Your house is half the size and cost twice as much!

~The weather man calls a few inches of rain "a really bad storm!"

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Road side signs warn of illegal alien crossings rather than deer (the sign shows a picture of a family holding hands while fleeing!)

~90% of the restaurants around are Mexican.

~Avocado comes on everything - and that seems normal now.

~You start saying "for sure."

~If you get hungry, instead of driving to the market, you can go outside and pick fruit off of the tree.

~You stop reading the weather page in the newspaper because everyday is the same. :)

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hey Girl,

I just finished looking at our photos from the trip to SanDiego then read your blog...it sounds and is wonderful. And so are you:-)

Anonymous said...

Sounds like a wonderful life! Imagine having summer and winter flipflops...That seems awesome>_<

Kristen said...

It has been great living here ElzieMei, though I must admit, I was really missing snow this morning!! And SanDiego doesn't have another really awesome thing...you!! :)
Love ya girly!

Nicole 妮可 said...

Ahhh! This is awesome... and tho I love being an Iowa girl, I really wanna come visit CA!!!
I love the illegal alien thing!! Way hilarious! Have you ever seen some?
And if what they say about rain is true, then we've been having really bad storms the last two weeks!!
Love ya!

Anonymous said...

Lol, I'm missin' ya lots tooooooooo. Ya gotta come back sometime over the summer when theres no school!