It happened again...
UGH! So another haircut...by another incompetant hair stylist. I don't know who licenses stylists in Arizona but apparently their standards aren't very high. I think I am going to start flying back to South Carolina every month for my haircut. To be fair the cut isn't bad...the color looks awful. Of course I am leaving for business in a couple of weeks and will look like a freak (no comments from the peanut gallery). Chicago here I come! Hopefully the temps will warm up by the time I get there!
Labels: Ugh, unbelievable
Friday night
I was sleeping about 12:30 Friday night. Yes, I know I am young and should not be sleeping at that time on Friday night...but remember I just had surgery but I digress. I was sleeping Friday night when I heard this horrible crash. My apartment is on the corner where two drives converge in the apt. complex and I assumed a wreck had occurred at the corner.
Wrong!! Our complex has light poles that are made out of cement that are probably two foot around. Heavy Duty. These poles are not positioned so that anyone would hit them....unless they were drunk. That is my assumption as to what happened. This guy had to be going 45 miles per hour. The speed limit is 10 I believe. He hit one of these poles and completely demolished it. Again, I am assuming because he was drunk, he quickly drove away. Though parts of his truck were littered around the now uprooted and destroyed light pole.
The police were called as people gathered outside. As one of the policeman took reports, another came up and advised they had caught the offender...as when he drove off...he drove to his parking spot in the apartment complex.
What an exciting evening!
Labels: unbelievable
I finally did it!!!
The Christmas tree and decorations finally came down and are put away as of 11:00 this evening. That may be a record for me - the Christmas decorations came down before the end of January!!
To those who find this completely appalling - last year they didn't come down until March so this is quite the accomplishment!!
Labels: Christmas, unbelievable
Resolutions and Such
So I am falling behind on most of my resolutions though I am ready to jump back on the horse. I needed an interesting story to keep your attention and I think I now have it.
On Friday afternoon, I left for Jacksonville, FL. I expected to be there Friday evening. That did not happen.
We boarded the plane in Tucson on Friday about 3:30. The flight was to leave at 3:45. Everything seemed to be going well. We taxied from the gate almost to the runway when the plane stopped and the engines shut down. The captain came on and told us because of bad weather in Dallas the flight after ours had been cancelled and we were on a ground hold. An hour and a half later we were finall allowed to take off. When we arrived at DFW, we had to sit on the tarmac for another hour and a hald beause there were no gates. The captain even came on again and told us to write American Airlines and tell them this was not acceptable.
I'm sure you are thinking man that sucks! The story does not end there. While sitiing in the airplane, I called AA to rebook my flight for the next morning to Orlando instead of Jacksonville because my niece and I had planned to visit Sea World with the family. When we finally were able to get off the plane over five hours from when we had boarded, I quickly ran to grab a bite to eat and let some of the lines of distressed passengers die down before I made my evening plans. It was about 10:30pm at this point.
AA gave me a reduced rate of $60.00 to stay at the Amerisuites DFW South and called their van to take me to the hotel. I was told the van would arrive in 30 min. 45 minutes later the van sped past without stopping (as I waived my hands) and did not come back. I called the hotel and was told the vans were very busy and I should just take a cab. Only one thing the cabs were all gone. I quickly realized that by the time I called a cab and drove to the hotel I would only be able to grab a couple hours sleep before having to be back at the airport. I found a dark corner and slept on the tile floor. About 3am an airport employee felt bad for me and found a couple of blankets for me but needless to say I did not get much sleep. I had no problems sleeping on the plane to Orlando....even with all of the excited kids heading to Disney.
One last thing, of course my bags did not go to Orlando (like the AA rep assured me they would on the phone). They went to Jax so I wasn't able to shave for the second day in a row...much less take a shower. I'm sure I was rank when I finally got a shower this morning.
The joys of travel...
Labels: airlines, travel, unbelievable
