| They have reached the Pit Stop |
[May. 15th, 2006|09:56 am] |
The trio arrived last night after a thousand miles driven. I'll let The Boy fill you in on the details but here are some of the highlights:
1) Cannonball Run Taxi Driver
2) The Majestic IHOP
3) Kia SUV, ho!
4) The Long and Winding Road (did I mention long?) |
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| First Road Block |
[May. 12th, 2006|04:49 pm] |
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The Boy, Gramps, and Toothless Dog are broken down outside of Flagstaff, AZ. Apparently, the car could quit them. |
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| The Boy's version of The Amazing Race |
[May. 12th, 2006|11:45 am] |
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The Boy flew down to Tucson this morning to pick up Gramps and drive him back to Washington. They're going to try to drive straight through...we'll see how that goes. They're currently filling up the gas tank, and then they're on the road. The Boy, Gramps, and Punky (the toothless, cranky, toy Chihuahua). Good times. |
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| High school really is training for life. |
[May. 10th, 2006|02:05 pm] |
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As I went up to the 4th floor to grab some coffee (since that's where the good coffee is) I walked past some conference rooms in the middle of reshuffling for the next meeting. I grabbed some coffee and then road the elevator with more people scurrying to their next meetings. It was passing period at Expedia. |
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| Start off your birthday right! |
[Dec. 13th, 2005|02:42 pm] |
Today is my birthday (the big 2-5) and as I look back on my thoughts of 25, I always thought that that would be when I would truly become an adult. And I found out this morning I get to deal with my first significant adult issue: fraudulent charges on my credit card. Luckily *knock on wood* there has only been a total of $109.75 charged to my card fraudulently and I was able to call the company that changed me and find three names that were attached to three of the five purchases (all to the same credit report website), file a police report, cancel the card, and get a new card reissued before 8am. Not too shabby. The other thing that's lucky is that it's only a credit card and not my debit card or anything else attached to our checking and savings accounts. Now I'm just crossing my fingers that it's all smooth sailing through the rest of this.
On a brighter note, my day since 8am has been great! My boss brought in a cheesecake for my birthday and I got the cutest snowman ornament from my officemate. I still have faith in 25 yet. :o) |
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| Mama Mia! Review |
[Dec. 12th, 2005|10:49 am] |
The Boy and I saw Mama Mia! last night. It was great! I've never been to a musical that is just so fun! All I knew about the play going into it was that is had a score of ABBA songs and there was a wedding. I'm not the biggest ABBA fan, but I know a few of their songs and find them retro-enjoyable. Mama Mia! does a great job of really using the music to tell the story. I was afraid that it would just be a cheesy 70s disco, but instead it's a great story of reuniting with old friends with much humor. And the Boy liked it, too!
If you're looking for just a good time, and Mama Mia! comes to town, I would whole-heartily recommend it.
Next weekend, The Sound of Music! (I love the theater!) |
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| Fun Post-It of the day |
[Aug. 3rd, 2005|03:32 pm] |
Women Who Work
First the office...
Then the world!
They're unstoppable!
So true in my group. I love it! |
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| Framing my life |
[Aug. 1st, 2005|01:58 pm] |
I hate Paris Hilton, but I got new glasses yesterday that, I must say, are hot! They're pretty rectangular, with thin red plastic around the lenses and what looks like brushed pewter for the bows. I'm very cute. :) Still only need them for read, which is nice, too. It's a good thing I got them too, because I'm actually taking time to read again. Current author of extreme enjoyment: Jennifer Crusie. She can highly recommend from a friend and she's fun read. I'm on my second book of hers and both, thus far, have been very well written, despite the fact that she should fire her editor and hire me. I've never seen someone errors in a published book! St. Martins Press, not a shabby publisher, but you wouldn't know it from the first book of hers I read.
Now, let's see, I'm on top of things in terms of reading, eating well, and working house stuff. (Sure, there's always room for improvement, but all in all, not too bad.) Now I just need to get on the ball with contacting my friend (I miss you, Megan!!!) and working out (once a week is NOT enough). I really need to figure out how to balance my life, rather than having a few things be my focus for a month, and them put them on the back burner to something else for two.
On the family front, my mom started Chemo again on Friday and is feeling well. One down, five to go.
On Sunday, the twins appeared in a taping for a commercial for My Gym (a kids gyms in the midwest). I guess they're going to make a 30 second commercial out of the footage and we'll cross our fingers that you'll get to see the twins! I guess the commercials will be aired on Disney Channel and Cartoon Network in Omaha, as well as a few others. The fam's going to try and tape it for The Boy and I so we can see their publicly displayed cuteness. They are a couple of little peanuts. Tessa is very much a red-head like her mom, and is having fun crawling everywhere and standing up on her own (as long as she has something to hold onto). Mr. Isaac looks like he's going to be a blondie and has just begun giving crawling a chance, well. . . kind of. I guess he's using his elbows instead of his hands, but hey, he's mobile! In Sept, they'll be a year old, but we don't get to see them again until Nov, how sad. As long as my fam keeps taking lots of pics, it's all good. :) |
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| While I'm waiting, I might as well blog. |
[May. 24th, 2005|01:37 pm] |
It's been a while but I guess that means I've been doing stuff, so that's good. I really like my job at Expedia. It's going pretty well and I think they like me, so that's always good. Now if we could just do something about construction on 405 durning the morning commute, everything thing would be great. :oP
The Boy and I where quite busy this weekend. Saw Return of the Sith at 9am on Sat, had out housewarming party at 2pm (which lasted till 2am), sang at church at 9:30am on Sunday and went to the U-dist street fair Sunday afternoon. A wonderful weekend I must say! :) Not to mention, before our party we got a ton more stuff unpacked/trashed, finished the floor in the kitchen, and cleaned. And other than needing to vacuum again, our house stayed unbelievably clean. I was very impressed!
And now this coming weekend we are taking our respective vacations for Memorial day. (The Boy's going to AZ to visit his gramps and I'm going back to NE to see the twins/the fam.) Since he can take off more days than I can, it just made sense.
Well, Outlook is saying it's time for a meeting! |
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