All’s Well In Cerritos

Monday April 24, 2006 at 1:43 pm | Filed under Home

City of CerritosI haven’t found much time to be on my computer lately, which of course means that I haven’t had a chance to upload a lot of photos, or write blog entries. But just to quickly update all of you wonderful people…

Monique and I are unpacking daily. But in the midst of that we’re doing some home improvement projects as well. Currently we have a few “in flight:” bathroom flooring, new backyard block wall, exterior painting, shower door installation, kitchen countertops, curtains sewing/hanging, and much more. Luckily most of these are being handled by professionals, but there are all kinds of other side projects that we have going that we’ll be handling ourselves.

I don’t think our place really feels like home yet. Not due to a lack of changing things from the way they were, but more because we just haven’t lived there long enough for it to seem natural. That will come in time, I’m sure. It’s really saying something though since I really have lived there the bulk of my life for the place to feel foreign at all. I guess that’s a result of us changing the look of it so much. We’re both really excited with how it’s all coming together.

Over the weekend I made my first trip over to the school across the street to play some hoops with Tim. We had to hop the fence because they lock it up on the weekends now, but we got in and managed to play some ball for a couple of hours. It’s really cool to live in Cerritos as an adult. I’m really anxious to get more involved and support the city by going to city functions, getting a library card (the Cerritos library is enormous now!), and maybe even volunteering for a few things.

Tomorrow I’m staying home to work from there while the pool guy comes to check out the spa, the block wall continues work, and the new loveseat for the livingroom is delivered!

I’ll leave you with a few fun facts about Cerritos, and would encourage anyone who wants to find out good stuff to check out the wikipedia, it’s where these facts and more came from…

  • Cerritos was incorporated on April 24, 1956 originally as the City of Dairy Valley
  • The name “Cerritos” is Spanish for “Little Hills.”
  • When the city was renamed Cerritos, other names that were considered were “Los Coyotes” and “Freeway City”
  • The ABC in “ABC School Disctrict” stands for “Artesia-Bellflower-Cerritos”
  • The last dairy building in Cerritos was demolished in March 1989.
  • Cerritos has the first and largest deployment of a wireless-fidelity Internet network in the world.
  • The City of Cerritos owns a fleet of federally funded circulators known as the Cerritos On Wheels (or COW). The acronym, “COW,” is a nostalgic tribute to the City’s origins as Dairy Valley. For a fare of 50 cents, the COW provides access to points of interest. Wi-Fi Internet access is also accessible on the buses. The COW vans run on propane fuel, providing an environmentally sound alternative to conventional gasoline.
  • Cerritos is the hometown of Joe Popp, and he still lives there today!

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3 Responses to “All’s Well In Cerritos”

  1. Shannon Says:
    April 24th, 2006 at 10:31 pm

    When I was living in Lakewood as a teenager and had my own phone line in my room, I discovered it was one number off of COW’s phone number. I would often get calls to pick people up and I told them I would. (teen pranks - gotta love them)
    Thanks for the facts about Cerritos!

  2. joe Says:
    April 25th, 2006 at 12:00 pm

    You’re a real corker Shannon! (Sorry, I saw Far and Away a couple of weeks ago and that line stuck with me for some reason)

    I think Jason and I used to give people directions to places we didn’t know back in teh day as well. We’re all evil, you know.

  3. Shana Says:
    May 2nd, 2006 at 1:13 pm

    Who says you can’t go home again? You have a great place!

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