The other night I met up with some friends to have sushi over in Pasadena, and since I have been doing so much complaining about the gas prices I thought I would do something to shut myself up and find a solution. So I took the Metro! Yes I took public transportation in Southern California and even walked to the station! I have been trying to do my part to help our pretty little planet and although Im no expert and I am by no means perfect or even good at this green stuff its actually kind of fun finding alternatives. I have also been making an effort to be more active and while some of you may not find walking to the metro station an activity, I think it should be an Olympic sport when its 94 degrees out. That wasn't my point. I am sharing because the ride was so cool! I loved it. We wizzed by everyone sitting in traffic it was great. Not only that, I arrived (in what normally would be a 30 minute drive) in 15 minutes!! Unreal. Its great to use that as some downtime to read a book (I'm currently reading Chris Bohjalian's- The Double Bind) or just people watch, which I LOVE to do. Im always bummed if I dont have my camera with me though. I met some interesting folks on the way back. The after 9pm Metro crowd is very different from the 5pm rush hour crowd. I'll leave it at that. Anyway if you are interested in taking the metro you can get one way ticket for 1.25 and add .30 if you want a bus transfer. All day passes are $5 and a monthly pass is $62 and that includes bus transfers and unlimited trips not too shabby especially with gas prices the way they are. Just a little green thought for the day. Final Note: Dear Lakers, Please get your crap together. Not because I care about whether or not you win the championship (because Im a Clipper fan) but because I cant stand to see a grown man mope around the house, because you managed to throw away a 24pt lead. You see, he thinks he is a part of the team so he takes this personally every time you lose. So get it together! Sincerely , Araxi

So on Friday Alex had his final big performance (we call them a Hantess) for school and I was seriously nervous. He has had several performances this past year and lets just say he was acquired a reputation for being pretty unpredictable. Unfortunately when you have an almost 4 year old boy, who hates to sing, and has to stand there for a good 30 minutes there is bound to be trouble. In previous performances he has, nearly knocked over the flag, sat through an entire performance (while the other children stood and sang in delight), made his way from the last row of bleachers to the front row only to grab the mic and belt out a loud "HI MOM!!" or on a separate occasion yelling out "THANK YOU GOD" into the microphone. So my time there was usually spent in the audience giving him dirty looks and grinding my teeth in the "if you are not going to sing you better just stand there and be standing there" look.So needless to say when we found ourselves at the final performance of the year I was not expecting him to go all Star Search contestant on me but he DID!! I nearly fell over (camera and all) when he was not only singing, but singing in Armenian and not fake singing he was actually saying the words and doing the dances that he learned. I could NOT believe it! I was so proud of him and he looked so cute in his traditional outfit. I just kept looking at Nick and saying "omg hes singing, like really singing!" LOL Can you tell I was excited about the whole thing? Anyway I thought I would share and post some pictures of him because I've been getting some mail about my lack of posting especially when it comes to Alex. Check him out so serious.