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My work had its Christmas party yesterday. It wasn't really a party, but more of just eating sweets like cookies, brownies, and fudge and getting our annual $25 gift card to Target, whoo hoo! The card they gave us had nine separate photos of seven dogs and two cats on it in Christmas paraphernalia like Santa hats and ornaments and at first, I thought, how cute. On the inside it said, "Happy Holidays from the furry residents" then it listed all the names of the dogs and cats that live at HP.....Molly, Muffy, Tammy, Cuddles, Cider, etc. I then realized that the animals pictured on the front were the pets that lived at HP! It was very cute.
My cousin Kim from Carmel was in Omaha for a couple days on business. Unfortunately her business was that she had to pull a George Clooney from Up in the Air and tell people they were fired from their job....six days before Christmas...yikes! I would not want to have that job! These people worked at a call center which was getting an automated service and therefore their services were no longer needed. My parents came from Lincoln and picked me up and we went downtown where she was staying and picked her up at her hotel and went out to eat at a place called Sullivan's. It was a pretty fancy place because not only did they check our coats, but they also gave us the choice of what kind of water we wanted: iced, still, or sparkling. I suggested iced because that's the best kind, right? I had French onion soup and bacon-wrapped scallops. By the time I got to the scallops, I was already pretty full because of the soup and the three pieces of bread I had already had (hey, in my defense, I hadn't eaten since 2:30 and that was when I had two cookies and some chocolate covered Christmas tree pretzels at my work's Christmas party and by the time we got to the restaurant, it was after 7). There were four scallops on my plate and I could only eat three. Kim told us about her two kids, Maya, 8 (who I met four years ago at my brother's wedding), and Timmy, who just turned 4. She said they were excited for Christmas, but they're both scared of Santa Claus, aww, lol. We were talking about my brother and Kim called him "Billy" and said, "You guys probably don't call him that anymore, do you?" And my Mom says, "Oh, we sometimes do" and I'm thinking, No, we don't! My parents used to call him Billy when he was a little kid and sometimes family members and old family friends will call him Billy by force of habit, but my parents and I have never called him "Billy" in like forever. In fact, I don't think I have ever called him Billy. He's always just been Bill to me. Oh, well! Kim had a five am flight back to California this morning and that meant a 3:45 wake up call. Ugh!
This morning I felt like a latte and cheese danish from Starbucks. It had snowed a bit earlier so all the cars were just lightly dusted in white. I pointed my key clicker at my car and unlocked it. When I opened the door, I was really confused because there was a mug sitting in the cup holder and my first thought was, I don't remember putting a mug in my car and for a split second I wondered if someone else had put it there. Then I see a pair of black gloves sitting on the passenger seat and I don't even own black gloves and that's when I realize that's not even my car! My car is one over! This car was also the same shade of red as my car and had four doors. My car is a Honda, and this one was a Toyota, I later realized. Since all the cars were covered in snow, I guess I didn't realize I had the wrong car. Oops! LOL! I'm just glad I didn't actually sit down and try to start the car! Whoever owned that car must have kept it unlocked because I don't think my car key clicker could have opened it since it's a different make of car!
Speaking of trouble with cars, when I went out later in the afternoon, I was merging onto the freeway and in front of me was a really slow car and in back of me was some jackass driving a SUV who was obviously in some hurry. There was a lot of traffic coming and the slow car was not getting over and I couldn't get over too and the SUV behind me just gets on the expressway without letting me on first and I swear that I was going to crash, but luckily I was able to get on when a car behind me slowed down to let me merge. Okay, sidenote: I really fucking hate it when you're trying to merge onto another lane and cars in that lane will not fucking move over to let cars merge smoothly. Good Lord, if I see there are cars about to merge, I always move over! So luckily I managed to avoid a bad crash. So then I see the idiot driving the SUV wants to get off at the next exit and he keeps swerving in and out of that lane because it's already full of other cars who also want to get off that exit. It's like, geeze, just fucking stay in the lane so you don't cause an accident, you fucking idiot.