Vegas or Bust

Guess what friends!

I just went WAR DRIVING!!! We just found an internet connection from some place across from an OBGYN…the name of the connection was “jamaica”

Oh the covertness that is Novel Concept. I’m freakin’ amazing!

So…Las Vegas. Ummm…it’s an interesting place. I’m looking out my window and I’m seeing the Las Vegas Club hotel and casino, right across the street from Sam Boyd’s California Hotel and Casino. If you’re looking for gaudy…you’re gonna find it here. I’m amazed at the number of lights flashing. I think when people were claiming that Japanese Anime cartoons were giving kids epileptic fits, they’d never tried to take them to Vegas. I haven’t even made it to the strip and I’m twitching. Oh look…it’s Lady Luck, and the US Bank. I wonder if the number of colors/lights on your building directly correlates to the amount of business here. That’d be an interesting study for the Board to look into…I’m sure it’s been done somewhere. Ooooo…El Cortez Casino…and then hotel. Interesting. I wonder if their casino has the curse of the Aztecs on it. Maybe you can hook up with a dead pirate or two while there. WOW! Steak and Lobster for $9.95!

On a more unrelated note, some of you may have seen the blog that I did about when we drove from California to (OOOHHHHH!!!! SPACE NEEDLE!!!!!! Back to the sentence) Tennessee. I was rather anti-Nevada in that post…and I can’t say that I’d like to live here, but I find the green that’s around (yes, you DID read that right…it’s green!) to be rather appealing…especially when coupled with the amazing sky. Ooo-da-lolly for a wonderful desert sunset.

Wow…suddenly we’re in Maryland…and now in Bonanza. I guess I should tell you who the “we” I’m talking about are. It’s none other than Uffish Thought and Phoenix. Guess who we’re going to see…THOR! I’m so excited. The car ride over here has been quite lovely. A nap, snackety snacks, and some Studio Ghibli (Spirited Away), along with some verra nice music-provided by Phoenix’s Driving Mix, and Uffish’s “A Disk for Thursday.” Mmmm..great friends. Also, we saw some interesting beer in one of the gas stations. It’s called Wasatch Beer, and one was called “Provo Girl” The other one was called “Polygamy Porter” and the motto with it was “Why have just one?” Oh, funny.

GUESS WHAT?!?! We just found I-15! We’ve been driving around for a little while trying to follow the signs to the interstate…and it’s not been working. Finally, we’re getting there….as soon as all these other silly cars stop coming.

Woo Hoo! We just found our exit…sweet sassy molassy. This is gonna be amazing. I’m afraid I’ll have to go for now…I’ll write some more later. I have a feeling this is going to be an entirely blog-worthy trip.

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Reasons I need a Kitchen...Part I

You know those days where you just know that after it's over, you'll look back and laugh?

Today was one of those occasions where you know you'll look back and laugh, and you get to laugh whilest it's happening too...

So, I'm an RA, and without kitchen. This isn't generally a problem. I have friends with kitchens, and enough meal prowess (read: mooching ability) that I'm usually able to avoid the cafeteria.

Well, today, being without kitchen became a huge problem.

I ordered a cake for a floor birthday party about a week ago, and I took the order to the appropriate persons to get said cake. It was a simple order: white cake, cut into 35 pieces, to be delivered today, February 15th. I called today to check on the order, and to see if my cake was coming. The person in charge of ordering had already gone home for the day, so I checked with the next person available...who didn't know. She kindly offered to call the first person to see if he had ordered the cake, and then call me back.

I got a call back a little while later that said that I was supposed to have reminded the first person, and kept coming back between when my order was due and when I'd put it in, because the order had ended up getting lost among some other financial papers. Because I had failed to do this, my cake had not gotten ordered. Was this going to be a problem? "No, that's ok." I said...only partially thinking it was a lie-really just a setback. Sure, it was a really inconvenient setback, but these things are workable right? I had about 3 hours until I had to go to a meeting, and that was plenty of time to get some cake or something made right?

Riiiiiight...

So I go to the store and I get some cake mix, frosting, ice cream, and cupcake holders. Individual cakes are cool too right? Sure, they weren't what everyone was hoping for, but it was still cake, and we're girls, and we have ice cream...this should be good enough right?

I realize that the oven in my building is broken, so I've got to go to another building. I go to the first one, to find the oven in use, and then the second, to find a free oven. HUZZAH! I've also only got 12 cupcake holders...which means that I've got to cook about 4 batches of cupcakes...that=80 minutes of sitting in someone else's basement and watching TV. I NEVER watch regular TV...especially sitcoms. I love movies, but I'm just not a huge fan of too many TV shows, let alone "that 70's show" and "American Idol."

Now, you'd think I could cook about 48 cupcakes without incident right?

Wrong.

Due to the limited resources, I put the cupcakes into a bag after they're out of the oven so that I can carry them all back to my building. The cupcakes in the bag promptly decide to no longer maintain their cup-cakey shape, and become cup-crumbs...and the party is supposed to start in an hour...and the cake mix is almost all gone, and there's no peace in the middle east, andmyshoesareuntiedbecausetheydon'thaveanytiesand....

Yeah, it ALMOST happened like that. Except instead, I just started to laugh. The whole situation was entirely ridiculous, and I couldn't help but just start laughing. This lasted all the way back to my room, where I got a hold of the hall advisor, who told me that I could go and buy another cake if I wanted to.

With nothing but some crummy looking cupcakes in the bag, I called up Phoenix who took me, and Uffish to the store to buy a cake. After a short selection time, I picked out a white $17.00 1/4 sheet cake, almost exactly what I'd ordered in the first place.

It gets even better from there-while standing in line for a cashier due to the fact that there wasn't a barcode on this cake, the manager comes up and tells me that I can go to the self-checkout lane. I explain the barcode issue and she says, "umm...$10.00- just tell her it's $10."

Bonus, I just saved $7.00 on a cake...more budget money for me!

I get the cake back, and with some assistance from Uffish, got the party all set up. There weren't as many people as I'd hope for, with all the stuff that went into it...but there were enough, and we had just enough cake-no waste.

Hahahahahahaha.....

If I Were a Bell...

Oh the joys of Valentines Day!

For one whole day a year, I can think all the sappy, sentimental, pink and mushy thoughts that I want to, and they're allowed to show all over my brightly beaming contenance. I can walk around with the idiot smile, and no one else really cares...or at least no one else expects me to explain myself. This is, after all, a day entirely devoted to pink, love, and the happy little girl giggle...

Or something like that.

Favorite SAD Valentine I've heard today:

I'm not yours,
You're not mine
won't you be my anti-valentine?

MMMmmmmMMM...life :D

Return of the Jedi

Ok, so it's really just the return of the nametag...but it IS a source of some power...

It's been "missing" for about 3 weeks now...maybe a month, and I've felt it's absence distinctly. The shiny golden background of it, encasing the regally carved letters that make up my name and position, they do something for you. I didn't realize the power that was to be had in simply playing with it's magnetic backing, and having it stuck to the doorjam of my room.

Somehow, having it back in its position says something like, "Finally, there is again order in this chaos." This badge is my "Magic Feather" and with it, I can fly.

OK, not really, but it IS cool. At least a lot cooler than the "Pearls of Authority." Somehow, those things just weren't cutting it.