Things are Turning Around

As you all saw I had a sucky end to last week, which actually got worse because I woke up sat to pick Peter up from the hospital (his surgery went well to all that are curious), and found a sticker on my car from a private towing company who had come into our garage and noticed that my registration was expired and said if i did not move my car in 24 hours they were going to tow it. Luckily I had printed my recipt that proved that i was square with the DMV and just waiting for the stickers to arrive in the mail, and the towing company agreed not to tow my car if I left the print out in the window.

Monday morning in the pouring rain I left my apartment to begin the trek to colorado. With the unlucky streak i had, i wasnt looking forward to the inevitable delays etc. To my surprise, not only did we take off on time, but the travel agent had booked me "classic plus" tickets (which on frontier is the closest to 1st class you can get) this meant i could pre-board, and got free food, free tv, and if it hadnt been 8 am free alcoholic beverages (i'm already planning what to get on the return trip!). The man infront of me ordered scotch and the flight attendant laughed at him but brought it anyway.

I landed in denver, and my luggage came pretty quickly and I went outside just in time to catch the AVIS bus before it pulled away. Once at Avis I found out that they had upgraded me to a bigger and nicer car! Which is great since its an hour to Boulder.

Lastly I got to the hotel where I had stayed before (in the crappy side wing with a parking lot view and creepy hallways), and found out i had been upgraded to a supreme king room in the main part of the building with a beautiful view of the mountains!

Lets hope my luck continues and we complete all the work i'm here for today so that I dont have to re-book my flight for tomorrow :) Now the only question remains what to do with my morning tomorrow before my flight if i dont end up having work!

so basically everything went wrong today that could have

1. I woke up in the morning and went to make my bubbly water for the day, but the CO2 cartridge was empty. 2. I drove in to work and things were going fine till I decided to check my bank statement to find out my work travel for next week charged me THREE times for the same plane ticket ( still trying to sort that crap out). 3. Finally made it to the vibe test at the designated start time to find out we were still about 2 hours away from starting 4. started the test and got ridiculous results 5. ended test mid test b/c noone could stay 6. even though i drove home AFTER rush hour got stuck in more traffic than usual. 7. Came home to find out that verizon fucked up AGAIN and now we dont have TV again for an unknown amt of time. it wasnt in their system that they completed the setup of our tv last month and decided to turn it off today, when we called they admitted to their mistake and said it would be back on in an hour (like 2 hours ago) but its still out. FUCK YOU VERIZON. I think i just need to go to bed and have today be over.

lots going on little written down

I promised I'd be better at blogging, but clearly I'm still slacking. Check out this stir fry i made! I saw one of Sarah's blog posts with a photo of purple potatoes. This inspired me to try cooking with purple potatoes myself. Turns out they basically taste the same, but are really pretty! Peter's appendix is being taken out Friday so this is looking like it will be a really low key weekend playing nurse, but Monday I'm flying out to Colorado again for more vibe testing!

Good Timing I guess

Last night Peter Alan and I were walking home from dinner and I looked up to see a bright light steadily moving across the sky. I pointed it out to everyone thinking it was a satellite maybe. Alan quickly remembered that we should look later b/c there was something to be seen at 7:30, but he couldn't remember what. I pointed out that it was 7:30 right now and whatever he thought we should be looking for was probably that. Turns out it was likely the space shuttle flying overhead!!! Very exciting!

New Blog Name?

I was watching happy guilmore (then mr deeds then billy madison) this weekend, and I was thinking that I should re-name this blog. The current title is inspired by happy guilmore when he goes "looks like someone learned to putt...uh oh" to shooter mcgavin just before he kicks his butt. Anyway, its been maybe 4 years or so since I initially started this blog, and i'm well past having learned how to blog hence the need for a new title. Any Ideas? I'm thinking by the end of march hopefully I'll change this title.

Oscars etc

I had my annual skype date with Chris (now that he is in Chicago) to watch the Academy Awards. Unfortunately he had to leave for a chunk of time in the middle so its unclear who won this year, but as for the categories we were both there for, it was a tie. I think I would have won this year though since I watched a lot of the movies, and saw the golden globes. I'll have to start training for next year so I can really beat him.

Also I got glasses for use at the computer. Evidently its barely a prescription, but wearing it is so weird and feels so strong. I cant tell if its actually helping though :( I'll give it a week to test it out.

stop being so creepy williams sonoma

So I've now created a few registries, so I'd say I'm a good person to compare what different companies do. Bloomingdales is great, although it spams me multiple times a day about products i may have overlooked while registering. Crate and Barrel I have no issues with (besides the fact they change the inventory so fast that half the things i registered for no longer exist). This brings us to the creepy williams-sonoma. First off they too spam me at least once a day with "overlooked" products. But the second issue is the one i have a problem with. Sometimes I just search the internet to see what items are out there. For example the other day I was looking for a new spice rack and did a google search. The one at williams sonoma came up and I clicked on it. I had no intention of buying this, and just wanted to see a comparison of products. I guess williams sonoma recognizes my ip address maybe since I have an account. I KNOW i hadnt signed into my registry that day (or in a while for that matter). Anyway, this morning I woke up to an email from Williams sonoma thanking me for my interest in the spice rack and had a "buy me now" button urging me to follow up on this initial google search. Actually Williams Sonoma, I am LESS likely to buy your product now that I know you are so creepy and pushy.