*tap...tap* Is this thing on?
Well, hello there, internet! So nice to see you again. You look great! Love what you've done with your hair.
I've hardly been online at all lately- my e-mails overrunneth, all the e-bay auctions I'm interrested in end before I check back on them, I'm totally out of touch with everyone, and I'm so far behind on reading Pink is the New Blog that TomKat's baby is probably already ruling an alien planet and I haven't heard about it.
I'm off work tomorrow (today? It's 6am, so I guess it is today.) so I've been scurrying around the web trying to catch up on the things I've been missing. SO much stuff!
I'm hoping to go out to Silver Dollar City today to catch the very last day of World Fest- at least if it doesn't rain. Again. Rain has become my arch nemesis. I am so over rain. It starts every single day as I'm driving to work. Evil, evil it is! It even went all tornado on me while I was at dance class Wednesday, and we ended up having to quit early, which resulted in me driving really really fast the 50 miles home, trying to outrun the evil storm. Is it wrong that I wanted to just keep dancing through the tornado sirens?
My limited online activity lately has mostly been limited to MySpace (the one thing I seem to be keeping up with) and obsessively watching all of the cheap airfare sites for my plane ticket for Visit Kelly 2006! I was much too poor to make it to her wedding, so we decided to hit Scarborough Faire again, instead. Then when I discovered they had a Pirate Weekend, our minds were made up- that's our kind of shindig! I've been nagging many of my friends to come, too, because seriously, who wouldn't love pirate weekend? You get to run around saying Avast! and Arr! I just need to come up with a costume, because I will gladly jump on any reason to get dressed up. (Speaking of such, mi amiga Tiffany is having a superhero themed birthday this year, and I need to come up with a superhero (or preferably supervillian) to be. Suggestions?) I've been watching the stupid airfare for over a month now, and I appear to be screwed. It dropped down to about $220 about three weeks ago, but I was stupid and didn't buy it then, and now it's back up to $350. I soooo can not afford that much money to fly out there. $200 I can do, but 300's are way too much! I also really don't want to drive this time, either. Last time it was fun because I stopped in Oklahoma on the way to visit some friends, but I really can't afford to take more than three days off work this year, and three days of Crystal-Kelly shennanigans are not even close to enough, but if you take out most of two of those days for driving, it's just not worth it.
I really need to get back to work on my plan to become an eccentric millionare.
Also on the schedule for summer? Mexico the end of June, some local ren faires with my dance girls through May and June (there are a ton!) and the usual hotel shennanigans, which as of late has mostly included training new people. We have been through an insane number of front desk people so far this year, and I'm awfully tired of training them all! One was fired for sleeping, two were fired for not showing up their second day, one quit, blah blah blah. I'm not even going to learn their names anymore. There's no point! Of all of the ones I've trained, three are left- one just started, but is pregnant, so she won't be around more than a few months. Another is frequently being described as the male version of me, but I haven't spent enough time with him to see if that's actually true yet, and the third frequently causes me to hide and bang my head against the wall. She's one of those people who is nice and all, but just does such annoying things that being around her is like nails on a chalk board. The most annoying thing is that she says "and stuff" constantly. Drives me nuts! "So.. I was working last night and stuff, and this guy called and stuff, and he made a reservation and stuff, but then he asked where we were and stuff, and then I got something to eat...and stuff...." That is seriously not even blowing it out of proportion- it is exactly like that! And she gets there a half hour early every night, so I am stuck there listening to it...and stuff. Arrgh!
So, that sums up most of the plans for this summer. I did get an exciting new addition to next year's schedule, though- Katie and I were talking about the Kentucky Derby, and decided that next year we'll do it up right- I'll fly out there, we'll wear gigantic hats and garden party dresses and drink and bet on horses and scream at the TV, and have a lovely time. My entire year until then will be devoted to finding the perfect hideous gigantic hat. And the beauty of the plan is that if things work out just right, the Derby will fall at the same time as Star Wars Weekends at MGM, so I can have two exciting things to do at once! Now if only Ray Park will be there...
Now that I've rambled on much longer than I intended (This was originally going to pretty much say "Hi, guys! Remember me? I'm not dead!), I'm going to crawl in bed with my cat and a book, and read till I sleep. I am so excited to finally have a day off with nothing (other than possible theme park visiting) to do! I intend to enjoy it to the fullest!
I've hardly been online at all lately- my e-mails overrunneth, all the e-bay auctions I'm interrested in end before I check back on them, I'm totally out of touch with everyone, and I'm so far behind on reading Pink is the New Blog that TomKat's baby is probably already ruling an alien planet and I haven't heard about it.
I'm off work tomorrow (today? It's 6am, so I guess it is today.) so I've been scurrying around the web trying to catch up on the things I've been missing. SO much stuff!
I'm hoping to go out to Silver Dollar City today to catch the very last day of World Fest- at least if it doesn't rain. Again. Rain has become my arch nemesis. I am so over rain. It starts every single day as I'm driving to work. Evil, evil it is! It even went all tornado on me while I was at dance class Wednesday, and we ended up having to quit early, which resulted in me driving really really fast the 50 miles home, trying to outrun the evil storm. Is it wrong that I wanted to just keep dancing through the tornado sirens?
My limited online activity lately has mostly been limited to MySpace (the one thing I seem to be keeping up with) and obsessively watching all of the cheap airfare sites for my plane ticket for Visit Kelly 2006! I was much too poor to make it to her wedding, so we decided to hit Scarborough Faire again, instead. Then when I discovered they had a Pirate Weekend, our minds were made up- that's our kind of shindig! I've been nagging many of my friends to come, too, because seriously, who wouldn't love pirate weekend? You get to run around saying Avast! and Arr! I just need to come up with a costume, because I will gladly jump on any reason to get dressed up. (Speaking of such, mi amiga Tiffany is having a superhero themed birthday this year, and I need to come up with a superhero (or preferably supervillian) to be. Suggestions?) I've been watching the stupid airfare for over a month now, and I appear to be screwed. It dropped down to about $220 about three weeks ago, but I was stupid and didn't buy it then, and now it's back up to $350. I soooo can not afford that much money to fly out there. $200 I can do, but 300's are way too much! I also really don't want to drive this time, either. Last time it was fun because I stopped in Oklahoma on the way to visit some friends, but I really can't afford to take more than three days off work this year, and three days of Crystal-Kelly shennanigans are not even close to enough, but if you take out most of two of those days for driving, it's just not worth it.
I really need to get back to work on my plan to become an eccentric millionare.
Also on the schedule for summer? Mexico the end of June, some local ren faires with my dance girls through May and June (there are a ton!) and the usual hotel shennanigans, which as of late has mostly included training new people. We have been through an insane number of front desk people so far this year, and I'm awfully tired of training them all! One was fired for sleeping, two were fired for not showing up their second day, one quit, blah blah blah. I'm not even going to learn their names anymore. There's no point! Of all of the ones I've trained, three are left- one just started, but is pregnant, so she won't be around more than a few months. Another is frequently being described as the male version of me, but I haven't spent enough time with him to see if that's actually true yet, and the third frequently causes me to hide and bang my head against the wall. She's one of those people who is nice and all, but just does such annoying things that being around her is like nails on a chalk board. The most annoying thing is that she says "and stuff" constantly. Drives me nuts! "So.. I was working last night and stuff, and this guy called and stuff, and he made a reservation and stuff, but then he asked where we were and stuff, and then I got something to eat...and stuff...." That is seriously not even blowing it out of proportion- it is exactly like that! And she gets there a half hour early every night, so I am stuck there listening to it...and stuff. Arrgh!
So, that sums up most of the plans for this summer. I did get an exciting new addition to next year's schedule, though- Katie and I were talking about the Kentucky Derby, and decided that next year we'll do it up right- I'll fly out there, we'll wear gigantic hats and garden party dresses and drink and bet on horses and scream at the TV, and have a lovely time. My entire year until then will be devoted to finding the perfect hideous gigantic hat. And the beauty of the plan is that if things work out just right, the Derby will fall at the same time as Star Wars Weekends at MGM, so I can have two exciting things to do at once! Now if only Ray Park will be there...
Now that I've rambled on much longer than I intended (This was originally going to pretty much say "Hi, guys! Remember me? I'm not dead!), I'm going to crawl in bed with my cat and a book, and read till I sleep. I am so excited to finally have a day off with nothing (other than possible theme park visiting) to do! I intend to enjoy it to the fullest!