i live in da ghettoburbs

• Hey there. Let me start off with a rant I have in my head. Why do they show commercials for good looking restaurants that aren't in my area? They always advertise for Ruby Tuesday, the closest one is about 2 hours away. What the heck is with that? Oh and Dunkin Donuts with "America Runs On Dunkin". There are no Dunkin Donuts in California. I was on their website. Change the slogan to "Most of America runs on Dunkin but California has Starbucks on every other corner so forget them." I know Dunkin Donuts owns Baskin Robbins, so why not replace at least one ice cream outlet with a Dunkin Donuts? I know I seem fanatical, but I wanna see the hype and magical donuts that the East coast seems to be crazy about. Oh and Cici's Pizza, that place with the pizza buffet. I doubt there are any in California. None in the Bay Area, anyway.
• All the good cheap places are afraid of the expensive yuppie wasteland I like to call home. Well I live in the ghettoburbs, so not exactly. Let me break down that terminology while I'm at it. Oakland is ghetto, and I live in a suburb of Oakland, in San Lorenzo. I wouldn't really call it a suburb because all the affluent mostly white folks have fled to Dublin/Walnut Creek/San Ramon. I live in a ghettoburb. A smaller suburb with plenty of check cashing places, billboard advertisements in Spanish and homie g funks at the local malls. I'm not being racist, well trying not to be. I'm just making observations.
  
• Wow that certainly was a mouthful, huh? Did I mention I'm hormonal today? Yeah so after that rant, lemme break down what's been happening the last few days. Not too much. Went walking yesterday, and after half a mile my ankles and back were on fire. Mostly my ankles. I was in dire pain and it hurt pretty bad just to change back into my flipflops. I don't know if it's because I'm fat (which is what doctors like to tell me), water retention (good possibility) or the onset of arthritis (both parents have/had it, and my knees hurt when it's going to rain). Whatever it is, I don't like it but ankle pain will not prevent me from exercise. I will walk at least a mile this morning even if it kills me. I shall overcome you pesky little stiff painful swollen extremities. Okay now I'm even scaring myself so I'll go now.