Speed was on the other night and I watched about 3 minutes of it before I had to turn it off. I loved that movie so much when I was in high school but there is no comparison to 24. I was comfortable in bed already and I didn't want to get up so I was flipping channels and Speed was the only decent thing on. It bothered me so much that I got out of bed to find my DVD player remote so I could finish another hour of 24. (I have 8 more hours to go!) I thought Keanu Reeves was the cutest thing ever back then but now I prefer Kiefer Sutherland to Keanu. This one episode actually had me crying! TV never does that to me.

It was nice to see Kobe back on the court last night but his legs are like toothpicks now. He is s-k-i-n-n-y!!!Understandable though... I am 99% sure he'll be acquitted but you never know what will happen. Sometimes even when I am 100% sure about an answer and someone starts questioning me about it, I start to get doubts. This is his life at stake too, not some stupid test that has no bearing on your life in a year or two.

So much has happened this week at the office. A couple months ago, a client called and said she thought one of her employees (W) was stealing money from her (when W bought toys for the client's kids on the client's credit card, she'd also pick up a couple things for her own kids and charge it to the card). (See the August 25th entry) We thought we got that resolved back then, and the client kept W as an employee, don't know why. W has a sister (M) who has worked for the client for a couple years and who the client absolutely adores. The client hired W and M's husband because of M. M is a maid and she makes more than 1.5 x my salary. (She barely speaks English and she makes more than me!!) M has a charge card in her name so she can purchase groceries for the house, toys for the kids, etc. The client set up this thing for M so that if the client dies, M gets $15,000/yr to take care of the client's dog. M is substitute trustee on the client's will if the client's brother dies. We thought M was the good sis. :)... you can see where this is going.

The client calls us on Monday and says $20,000 cash is missing from her safe and she thinks it might be M. We agree we need proof before we can do anything. Oh yeah, and last week M requested 2 months advance salary so she can put money down on a new house. We gave her the check on Friday (before everything happened) and I guess it was too late for her to cash it at the bank. (Why you would cash a check that large instead of depositing the check in your bank account is beyond me). The client asked Eileen to stall M from cashing the check because she wanted to be sure and she didn't want M to get suspicious. The nanny cam is set up that day. On Tuesday, the client calls and says she caught M stealing from the safe on the nanny cam. Apparently, the client wrote down her safe combination somewhere and M somehow found it. The client called the cops and they're gonna arrest her on Thursday (Eileen and I were sitting by, waiting for the action, and we were mad that they were waiting that long). All day Tuesday and Wednesday, M is calling Eileen every hour to ask when she can cash her check because she really needs the money and Eileen comes up with bullshit stories like there is no money in the account, we're switching banks, we're just gonna wire the money into your account, the messenger will give you the cash instead... I swear, we got new relevations everyday. Eileen figured M really didn't buy a house because M kept coming up with bullshit excuses why she couldn't fax over the escrow papers. Then, the client's brother says his stepson told him he saw M and her husband smoking crack behind the house (I don't know how long ago that was). We think they need that money for drugs and because I watch too much TV/movies, I came up with: M needs the money to pay off a drug dealer before a certain deadline or the drug dealer is gonna have her killed. When Eileen was analyzing the checks that M wrote (the client took away M's credit card after W was caught stealing and she added M to a household checking account), she realized Wednesday was M's birthday. Maybe thats why the client wanted to wait til Thursday for M to be arrested. Eileen and I didn't do any work on Thursday because we were waiting til 5:00 hit because thats when the detective was gonna show up. Eileen and the nephew were supposed to make sure M was at the house then. Eileen was trying to figure out why M didn't call her to bug her about the check at all Thursday. M waited an hour to call Eileen back too. 5:00 came and we didn't hear anything from the house... at 7:00, the client's personal assistant calls Eileen and tells her nothing happened. M confessed, said she was sending the money to her dad in Guatemala, etc and the personal assistant was supposed to take M to the police station the next day because the client didn't want to have M arrested in front of her kids. We were disappointed - we wanted more action! M was even spending the night at the client's place. I don't know about the client, but I would not feel comfortable sleeping in a house with a thief. Today we find out that M found a copy of the police report that day and she called the police earlier on Thursday telling them that the nephew had a gun and was threatening her (which was total bullshit). The Malibu police were over there and I guess they determined nothing happened. I don't know why the client didn't know the police were over there until this morning but when she found out, she had the cops come arrest M right away... forget not wanting to do it in front of the kids. The client now thinks that M stole some of her (dead) mother's jewelry also. Geez!

I Love the 80's Strikes Back is on. I don't know how this is different from I Love the 80s though, just new material. Nick Lachey is a comment-er! Did his album ever come out?? I should buy it just to support him because I feel sorry for him. Anyways, I love this show! I never watched I Love the 70s because I don't know anything about that era and I wouldn't be able to relate. They're talking about Field of Dreams right now - "If you build it, they will come." Our high school went through a whole Kevin Costner phase because he's a VPHS alum. I had a some football coach/health teacher who would just bring in Kevin Costner movies when he didn't have any material planned (which was often) and then he would point out some short bald chubby white extra in all the movies and say that was him.

Richard Marx!! Heehee, "Right Here Waiting". Oh my god, I love this show.