Jet Blue

Ok so it turns out that jet blue has been around for 10 years, and i'm just realizing how nice it is now. I think i tried to take it once and had a lot of delays and never tried again until this weekend.

Jet Blue has comfy seats, TV's at each seat where you can control your own channels and watch things like ghost busters (which of course I did). And on top of that they give out either chocolate chip cookies, or doritos munchie mix. Take that midwest airlines (yep, i'm looking at you leslie). Plus with jet blue you dont have to go to places like chicago or wisconsin, you can go to places like boston or the dominican republic.

I think the other reason I always resisted Jet Blue was that you have to go through dulles, which was a great experience this time. No traffic to get there, easy ride from the parking lot to the terminal. Super fast security, a brand new subway to take you to your terminals (although I miss the sand crawlers), and awesome food options in the terminal including but not limited to chipotle and auntie anns (two of my favorite things).

This chipotle I was informed by Ryan is the only one that serves breakfast, so on my return trip I checked it out and it looked ridiculous. They had breakfast burritos etc, which looks like normal burritos but with eggs and hash browns.

Back again

ok i just had my 4th trip out of dc in about 3 weeks and I'm ready to stay put for a long time. My sister graduated with her master's this weekend so that was fun. We had a nice party and ate delicious cake.

I only get a little down time in the form of tuesday night! Then plans and visitors and lots more fun :)

a whole lot of delicious

So as you all know I am a sucker for new candy. I've blogged about it many times, whether it be the new pieces, or flavored hershey kisses, I will try them all.

So this week my friends, I've found not one, but TWO new M&M flavors.

Monday at the Kwiki mart (i dont know, that little place by burger king) I found this:


Thats right, coconut m&m's. They were alright. I probably wont buy them again. They sort of tasted like Parrot Bay in Candy form.

Then today at cvs I found THIS:


Pretzel m&m's are delicious and addictive! I've eatten WAY too many today! I really like chocolate covered pretzels (which i think are better), but they always melt all over your hands (which always reminds me of mallrats, ew) So these little candies have the added bonus of melting in your mouth and not in your hand!

I couldnt be more tired

Since Tuesday I have driven from DC to NJ, from NJ to NYC, then back from NYC directly to work and I assume eventually I'll make it home. Some day.

the funeral was alright, but what was kinda cool was getting to the temple early and seeing the person I was named after's name all over the walls. In stained Glass in the main sanctuary, then the entire social hall was named after her. Very cool. Maybe someday I'll go back and look around more.

So i suppose when you get to work at 2 you should stay late, but I can barely keep my eyes open so chances of that happening are slim to none.

New York Weekend

I had a great time in ny at alexis's wedding! Alexis and Rob got married at the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens and it was beautiful. I may post later, not sure.

Back to ny in the am for less happy times.

mid game report...live blogging if you will

ok so it wont really be a live blog b/c its just going to be this post.

So we are in the midst of the celtics cavs game and I have some observations.

1. Who do they think they are advertising towards? Within 3 min I saw ads for Mike's Hard Lemonade (which i wont knock b/c its de...wait for it...lishous) and the WNBA.

2. The first hooters ad i've ever seen just came on. This ad involved the burger king, ronald mc donald, and wendy from wendy's....does hooters think its in the same food niche as those fast food restaurants? weird, dont know why you'd compare yourself like that

3. Lastly out of everyone on the court i've had a long discussion with myself, and a little with peter about who the most attractive player tonight is. For starters Rajon rondo wasnt really in the running, but paul pierce on the other hand came out as the winner in my mind.

Thoughts?

Boston Weekend

My weekend was a lot of fun! Reunion was great and not as awkward as you'd imagine. The highlight of my trip however was the redsox/yankees game at fenway park on sunday night. I'll be honest, going into it i was pretty sure we were going to lose, so you can imagine my surprise when we came out swinging and took the lead pretty fast.

I've seen the sox already twice this year and plenty other times in camden and nationals park, but there is something about watching them at fenway that makes it special. The sweet caroline sing along, the dirty water after the game, Wally dancing with his mother during the 7th inning stretch.....what? yes you read that right, Wally's mom made an appearance for mothers day. Also there is some added excitement to booing Jeter, Swisher, and A-Rod at the top of your lungs and not even being the loudest. My sister and I kept elbowing one another when we werent cheering or booing loud enough. Cant wait to go back to Fenway!

Weekend 2 of 4 weekends away

Tonight I leave for boston for my 10 year highschool reunion! I'm pretty excited! Did i tell you that winsor made it to #10 on forbes' list of the top 20 prep schools in america. not too shabby.

On an unrelated note, we went to the dc united vs kansas wizards game last night and Vamos united! it was their first win of the year! I think it was probably because the wizards goalie seemed to suck. I mean i dont know a ton about soccer, but i feel like I could have stopped the particular goals that went in.

Trains

Ok I know its not national train day yet, thats may 8th (from the hundreds of signs around me telling me this) but i'm going to blog about my love hate relationship with amtrak

Ok so at 7:30 this morning I hopped on a train to nyc for a day trip. The train originating from DC was great. I got a window seat with a plug for my computer and I even slept half the time. I was feeling pretty good about amrak and was even thinking that I should start taking it more often.

I arrived at Penn station a little early waiting for my evening 8pm train home on acela the "high speed" express train between ny and dc. You should know that I have taken the acela train once before in 2001 between dc and boston, and something happened to the train once we were en route that made it go SLOWER than a normal train. it was miserable. So here I am many years later willing to spend the extra money and give acela another try and what happens? So far my train will be 35 minutes late. WTF, at that rate i might as well have paid less and gotten to dc at the same time, not to mention there is a good chance my train will be delayed further. (as I typed that it delayed to 40 min late)

THIS is one of the many reasons trains will never do well in this country. Too bad too b/c when things go well I enjoy taking trains. (oh, did i mention that the train is also more expensive than flying) Also why do shady chinatown buses have wi-fi but the trains do not?

Orioles/Sox Game last night

Ok so the bad news is that the sox lost in extra innings last night, but the good news is that what happens when the orioles win is a total WTF moment. So As you all know I go to lots of orioles games every year, but I guess I hadnt seen an O's win in so long that I didnt know they played this ridiculously stupid song in total seriousness. Evidently its been happening for a couple of years. Also as soon as they won people froze for a second unsure what to do before jumping up high fiving eachother. Here is the terrible song