i've just gotta ask

is this okay?
this is my neighborhood gas station. it's crazy!
not as crazy as the $4.05 for regular unleaded that i saw the other day, but i thought that was probably blatant gouging.
this, on the other hand, seems to be the norm.

dear rude woman on my floor at work

is it too much to ask that when i pass by you in the halls and say "hello" that you give me some sort of reaction other than raising your eyebrows at me?

you rude, rude, miserable woman! get some damn social skills!

confused

do you ever get randomly disoriented doing something that you do every single day?

i just got totally lost coming up the same set of stairs that i take every single day, multiple times a day. i rounded the corner and i guess i was too deep in thought, because it took me by surprise that i was in a stairwell. and for a split second didn't know where to go.

weird. time for a drink, clearly. too bad i have a conference call with India tonight at 8:30pm. boo.

a new leaf

so i tend to come on here and vent about things that are bugging me or making me mad. for the past week and a half i've been composing posts in my head that rant about various annoyances, from work to travel woes, to back pain.

well not tonight. i decided to make note of some things that are making me happy recently.

• my husband came home from work with flowers and a card for me. the occasion? our 2 1/2 year anniversary. this was totally out of the blue, unexpected, and unusual... and totally made me smile from ear to ear!


• Extreme Makeover: Home Edition - wow, this show never ceases to make me cry within the first 3 minutes. i DVR it every sunday, and love watching the people's lives turned around for the better. it's so inspiring to see the undying spirit of people who face such undeserving hardships, and they truly appreciate all they are given. the overwhelming outpour of generosity by the communities makes me all warm and fuzzy inside too.


• our dog Leo is the center of our world. he brings us such joy, and i thank God every night for bringing him to us. imagine what i'll be like with children! actually i joke with my sister that i love my dog so much, even after we have children, instead of bragging with pictures of my kids growing up, i'll be pulling out pictures of the dog saying "here's Leo at halloween.... and at Christmas!"


• red wine. mmmmm mmmmm. enough said.


• my sirius radio. my dad was generous enough to buy me a car, and i love love love it. the sirius radio is something i never wanted, but now i don't want to give it up. we've become a population of people who want endless possibilities at our fingertips. with satellite radio, regular radio, a 6 disc changer, and an iPod port... i've kind of got it all. and i like it, damnit!

i am thankful for the things that make me happy, no matter how trivial they may seem. life is too short to not take the time to appreciate the things that make you smile.

procrastination

i am totally pretending that i don't need to be upstairs packing right now. i'm ignoring the fact that i will have to get up in 8 hours and head to the airport, at which point i will need that packed suitcase that is currently sitting empty in my bedroom. i just hate packing.

and it's freaking freezing in pennsylvania right now. it's been so cold all across the country, except in sunny and lovely california. i like it here. it's not warm by any means, but it's also not 40. i'd already put away my boots for the year, moving into the open-toe and peep-toe variety of shoes that make me believe it's summer. but i'll be dragging out my boots again for this trip back east. along with sweaters too. brrr.

so we're heading to PA for the wedding of one of tim's friends from high school. first we will be spending a couple of days with tim's older sister in bethlehem. we finally get to see her new baby (our Godchild) who was born in december! and leo will get to spend extra time with them as we head off to the wedding for 2 days. then after the wedding we will head back to bethlehem, and we will get to see tim's younger sister who will come out from manhattan for the day. it will be awesome to spend time with them since we only see them once or twice a year.

then i'm going to meet up with tinapopo! oh wait, no i'm not.

okay, i think it's time to go pack. i hear tim up there and it sounds like he's made a lot of progress. i will resent him if he finishes before i've even started.

*zzzzzzip!*

yeah, i just heard his suitcase zip. i think he might be done. grrrr.

hasta la vista. back next week.

selsun blue, please

i never really got those dandruff shampoo commercials they used to show. you know the ones that feature someone wearing a black suit with their shoulders sprinkled with flakes of "dandruff" and they have this horrified look of embarrassment on their face? i never really believed those because i always thought to myself "who has dandruff that bad? moreover, who has it that bad and wears black?!" i mean that's just dumb.

well.

remember my little trip to mexico a couple of weeks ago? one day my scalp got just a tad bit pink from too much sun. and now my scalp... well, it's peeling just a tad bit.

i forgot about that when i chose to wear a black t-shirt to work today. i was in the middle of talking to someone this morning and, out of the corner of my eye, spotted something on my shoulder.

flakes! FLAKES!

and not just one. not a couple or few. but many! i almost died. i felt like ally sheedy on 16 candles when she made it "snow" on her little drawing. ugh, i was so grossed out at myself.

it's not dandruff, so i still don't really buy the commercials. but it is gross. extra conditioner for me tomorrow!

it's been forever, i know

i know i've been neglecting the blog. i've considered posting so many times over the past couple of weeks. but i haven't. and it's like the more and more time that passes, the more i dread it because it just means there is that much more to write about. it's like a snowball effect.

so here i am, on a friday, finally deciding to put something up here. choosing what to post/vent about is a difficult decision, and one that i just don't have enough energy for. so i'll do the bullet point thing and give a little run down of what's been going on.

• mexico was awesome! so much fun being with my best friend and our moms. we drank sangria like it was going out of style, ate guacamole in the same fashion, and spent our days by the pool on lounge chairs. i regret that i did not return looking like coco chanel, but instead a slightly deeper shade of beige. this is probably due to the 30SPF i kept on my whole body the entire trip. better safe than sorry.



• came home to a surprise in my garage. not for me, no. my husband decided he needed a Porsche. but he didn't get rid of his other car yet. so we have 3 cars and that totally makes sense because there are 2 of us. right. ethel... didn't your hubby pull a weaselly move like this?



• been dealing with some identity fraud. enough said about that.



• had to fire my maid because she was damaging the crap out of my house. and she wouldn't admit to it. so now i have to start cleaning. i am not happy about this.



• booked our summer vacation: south africa here we come! we got our vaccines this week. we are pathetic because we couldn't move our arms for 2 days afterwards. those puppies sting!



• oh, i got promoted a couple of weeks ago, right before my trip to mexico. awesome timing, getting that news a few days before you're going on vacation. it's given me a renewed sense of motivation for my job. we'll see how long it lasts though. i'm bitter betty. or bitter beebers. totally glass half empty kind of gal, if you hadn't noticed.

i guess that's all. we have no big plans this Easter weekend, unfortunately. tim has class tomorrow, so i guess we'll just go to church and out to brunch on sunday. it's so much more fun spending the holidays with friends and family, especially Easter. we wear the silly bunny ears and flower headbands and take pictures decked out in pastels. we have Easter baskets filled with candy and treats, and drink mimosas or white wine sangria all afternoon. it's normally so much fun! something tells me tim and i won't be able to pull it all off on our own. but i guess we can try!

happy Easter!