Strange Book Idea

I always seem to have a sixth sense about when the power is going to go out. I'm also one of those people that turn off and on streetlights by walking by them. Maybe it's a super power I just haven't learned to control yet. So at 2:16 a.m. this morning I wake up, look at my alarm clock, and five seconds later the power is gone. It always makes me nervous for some reason, so I go out on my balcony to wait it out (because even though I could've set my phone alarm I don't trust it). It's been a while since I've been able to enjoy watching the snow falling at night. I love the way snow looks falling around street lights, I love how snow sticks to the tree branches and power lines, and I love how it catches moonlight and you can see for miles.

So while I'm waiting for the power and staring at the storm I start thinking of how many amazing picture opportunities this early morning makes, seriously my little downtown street looked like a calendar picture...and then I got an AWESOME idea! You know how I know it's awesome? Because when I woke up this morning and looked at the notes I made it was STILL an awesome idea. So it might take a couple of years, but it will be fun to try. Really it's probably equivalent to the Seinfeld episode where Kramer's coffee table book turns into a coffee table, but I'm quirky like that so if it is so be it. 

Best Road Trip Snacks

Due to an extremely disturbing and contagious case of cabin fever, a few of us got into what we thought were the best road trip snacks today at work. I love these kind of peeks into people's personal lore, it's like being in college and finding out your five roommates all have a different take on tacos and Sheppard's Pie. It's funny because my list included a bunch of crap I would never consider eating at any other time and all of it had a bit of nostalgia either from family vacations through the years or what friends have added along the way including, but not limited to:

Ranch Corn Nuts (only if EVERYONE in the car agrees to eat them OR all four windows can at least be cracked)
Chocolate Licorice-this tried and true favorite has saved me on many trips and long airplane rides when normal chocolate would have melted (especially on the Costa Rica trip).
Swedish Fish
Fig Newtons
Cheese Nips
E.L. Fudge cookies
Sour Cream & Onion Pringles-once again probably not the best flavor to pick in an enclosed space.
String Cheese
Purple Grapes
Ritz Crackers with Cheddar & Bacon Easy Cheese
Chocolate Teddy Grahams
Combos
and Nicole's homemade chocolate chip cookies (from the infamous L.A. road trip amongst other occasions)

I realized I tend to eat on the truck driver end of the spectrum when couped up in a car with my favorite people. I guess only true friendship could survive the Corn Nut experience. Honorable mentions from the conversation include Nilla Wafers, Sun Chips, a bag of chocolate chips (okay, whatever creams your Twinkie), edamame (didn't really seem travel-friendly to me), lemonade, beef jerky, pretzels, and Jelly Belly's.

What are yours?

The Essence of Summer 2010

Three real summer days in a row! Kind of makes me feel like I know how Kevin Bacon felt inside when he danced his little high-waisted jean heart out inside of that abandoned warehouse.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsCO-YkDgnY&feature=PlayList&p=CF92A75AB8ECA2E1&playnext_from=PL&playnext=1&index

If that doesn't capture the feeling of this summer, an angry shimmy/cable swinging freedom what does?

Things I Could Do Without This Week!

Food establishments that refrigerate and use the ends of tomatoes.


Smart cars. Is it really that smart to crouch down in a bright colored roller skate and roll through a busy intersection? Not to mention there is not a pair of sunglasses this side of Pluto that could possibly make you look cool in that car.

Persistent rain clouds that make even Eyore’s rain cloud suicidal!

Mutant douches on Legacy Highway trail that aren’t aware of “trail etiquette”. If you say, “On your left!” I will move out of the way, you don’t have to jump on my back like a rabies infested Yoda and breath in my ear like Jack the Ripper! (Yes 60 year old in the red spandex I’m talking to you and SPANDEX ARE A PRIVELEGE NOT A RIGHT!)

Anyone who doesn’t drive at least 80 in the fast lane!

Enjoy the holiday weekend, maybe if it snows again I’ll put up my Christmas tree and watch Elf…but a BBQ would be nice.

I Found My Soul Mate!

Have you been to Google today?  Pretty much whoever turned the Google logo into the Pacman game is my soul mate! Call me a nerd but I've never been so happy on a rainy Friday day  in my entire life! Yes I will be inserting coins the rest of the day inbetween combing through really long reports, thank you very much!

Bitter Sweet Endings

I start a new job on Monday and even though it is time to move on, usually the motivating factor is annoying coworkers or I get board easily and love a new challenge, but this time is just different.  I will miss the view from my office (and getting into the Art and Jazz Festivals for free) :)

And I will really, really miss my favorite coworker/sushi eating /Paradise Bakery sugar cookie run /"Let me hook you up with so and so ..."/homemade tamale making partner in crime/and much, much, much more. It's rare to have this much fun at work!

This last week has been like attending your own funeral, so many people saying the nicest things, lavishing me in gifts, the best boss ever taking all my work friends out to lunch at the Garden Cafe at the Grand America Hotel and making me give a speech (you can only kind of tell how embarrassing that was, yep that's me at the head of the table, ugh!).

And in the end the lesson I've learned is wow, if everyone at work felt this appreciated every day, I bet everyone would love going to work.  So my new coworkers are not going to know what to do with my new found appreciation.  Here's to the passing of time, new challenges, big changes, friends from every facet of life, and looking back at 90 at thinking wow, I got to live all of that?!

Livin' La Vida OBVIOUS!

And in other news Ricky Martin stated yesterday he was gay....um, this is news? (Insert sound bite of crickets chirping).  Even though last week I seriously had a conversation with a coworker that said, "I will not believe he is gay until he says it! He has kids you know!"

And here we are a week later, her eyes tearing up (I'm not kidding) with the "news".  Isn't it weird how the universe works?  Or really how oblivious we become over a star crush, I would like to say I've never been "that type of girl" but if you would have known me at 20 when *NSYNC ruled the world, you would have wanted me to trip off a cliff near the ocean.

Please tell me I'm not the only one?  Have you ever had a star crush?