Vacation Day 8: Dick for the win?
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llcoolvadToday started poorly. Left the house with five errands to run: 1. cash in coins at coinstar to get an amazon certificate (it is what I use to buy ebooks); 2. get mom's recycling to city yard; 3. go to comcast, return equipment; 4. drop off rent check; and 5. get lunch. Simple enough, make a big loop and bam. Done in no more than an hour, right?
You'd think. Just one of those days, though. Coinstar machine I usually use was broken! Traffic snarling everything! City Yard bin was stuffed so full stuff was falling out and I couldn't add anything! Comcast closed at 1 and I wasn't told that when I called ahead! Tried to get to somewhere to eat lunch and the traffic slapped me around, so I just finally went home and sulked and didn't pay my rent!
The only redeeming part to the first half of my day was that I remembered another Coinstar location and when I came out there were real girl scouts selling real girl scout cookies. Delicious girl scouts...
The second half of the day started poorly, too. The delightful ice machine that I got for xmas started making a horrible burning plastic smell and stopped popping out ice cubes. So that sucked. I sat around feeling sorry for myself, so I forced Brian and Patrick to go out to dinner. And even though our food was mediocre and our service nice but inept, it snapped me out of my funk, and finally I felt human again. Patrick and I watched "The Town," and then topped the evening off with Dick Clark and Ryan Seacrest. Nothing cheers me up more than snarking about fake excitement, so yay! We watched the ball drop, didn't watch Snooki, and was amused by NKOTBSB hobbling around on stage. How does Donnie Wahlberg keep a straight face? I guess it made it a total Boston night. The Town and NKOTB, dueling accents and bad hair. Wicked pissah!
Happy frickin New Year, everyone! Glad to see 2010 left in the dust. Onward and upward.
You'd think. Just one of those days, though. Coinstar machine I usually use was broken! Traffic snarling everything! City Yard bin was stuffed so full stuff was falling out and I couldn't add anything! Comcast closed at 1 and I wasn't told that when I called ahead! Tried to get to somewhere to eat lunch and the traffic slapped me around, so I just finally went home and sulked and didn't pay my rent!
The only redeeming part to the first half of my day was that I remembered another Coinstar location and when I came out there were real girl scouts selling real girl scout cookies. Delicious girl scouts...
The second half of the day started poorly, too. The delightful ice machine that I got for xmas started making a horrible burning plastic smell and stopped popping out ice cubes. So that sucked. I sat around feeling sorry for myself, so I forced Brian and Patrick to go out to dinner. And even though our food was mediocre and our service nice but inept, it snapped me out of my funk, and finally I felt human again. Patrick and I watched "The Town," and then topped the evening off with Dick Clark and Ryan Seacrest. Nothing cheers me up more than snarking about fake excitement, so yay! We watched the ball drop, didn't watch Snooki, and was amused by NKOTBSB hobbling around on stage. How does Donnie Wahlberg keep a straight face? I guess it made it a total Boston night. The Town and NKOTB, dueling accents and bad hair. Wicked pissah!
Happy frickin New Year, everyone! Glad to see 2010 left in the dust. Onward and upward.
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