Friends, I’m about to pass out!
I think in getting a cold, so I took Dayquil earlier and I just took some Nyquil and it seems to be working! I’m very drowsy! [A very good thing right now!]
I saw My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 and I loved it! I will tell you all about it tomorrow when I’m conscious!
I think I’ve told you…I love binge watching.
I actually prefer to watch the entire show after its gone off the air, but sometimes I just can’t wait.
I might acutely be addicted to binge watching. No commercials…just power thru…one more episode…an entire season in the blink of an eye.
I was just doing that with NCIS tonight, I was towards the end of an episode, not knowing where I am in the season and I thought to myself as something huge happened, “I love binge watching, I don’t have to wait for the next season…unless this is the end of the episodes and I have to wait until the next season is added.”
Grrrrr, what! Oh no! Now I have to wait! Nooooo! What am I going to do now?!
It’s the first day of Spring…snow?
Have you heard about the big snowstorm coming to hit the northeast? They keep warning us…there could be a snow day tomorrow.
Is Mother Nature not feeling well? Does she have a cold? Does she not know it’s Spring? My allergies have kicked in, today I saw a Robin red breast, houldn’t that mean it should be getting warmer?
It’s cold enough, but it doesn’t smell like snow. Don’t you love that smell? I do.
The kids were already talking about a snow day, what they’ll do if school is closed.
Talk about random rambling! Love…it!
So…snow or no snow…I’ll let you know tomorrow!
Help! I’m addicted.
Nah, I like them and don’t want to stop. There are four games I play every day, a few times a day.
They are all based on Disney movies, Maleficent, Frozen, Cinderella and Inside Out,
and all Free Fall, along the lines of Bejeweled, where you need to match at least 3 in a row, but with different challenges and ways you can move.
Each of the games gives you points in different ways, I think Maleficent is the best in terms of points and extras. You get five lives at a time, you get to play until you lose five times, then it’s twenty-five minutes until you get full lives again.
EJS and MGS both like to play, they get a hold of my phone and it’s on. They don’t play all the time on mine, they have their own tablet and only when they remember I have it. I have, however, gotten JCT and ST addicted, at least to Maleficent! Muwahaha
Gotta go and play, see ya later!
I think it’s a valid question.
As a society, we tip. It’s different in different places, America vs. Europe for example.
We tip servers, the valet, hair stylists, nail technicians, just to name a few.
It’s not that I don’t want to tip, but where does it stop? I waited tables, I am very generous when it comes to tipping, even when I get breakfast included with my hotel stay, I make sure to tip.
When I valet at a restaurant, I tip, interesting, I don’t tip at my hotel, I found out they make good money. One of the valet’s drives 1.5 hours each way because the money is so good. I always bring him something from wherever I have dinner, he said he appreciates it, I feed him well, front desk staff too.
I got my nails done today, I tipped for both the mani and the pedi. The hard part with this and other things, like hair salons, etc, what do you tip? A percentage or a set amount? I’m sure there is a standard somewhere.
The reason I thought of this was being at the airport today. I have extra stuff coming back with me from Denver. I decided to take a chance and use curbside check-in for my bags, then take my rental car back. It worked!
Here’s what made me think of this. The people who work curbside check-in, just about everyone seems to tip them. Are we supposed to? Isn’t it their job? I didn’t tip him for taking my bags. I might have actually changed my mind if he was pleasant.
Just a random musing.
Tonight I did something different and fun.
I went to a place near my hotel called The Chocolate Bar. It’s a bar/restaurant that specializes in chocolate, as you might imagine. Drinks, food, dessert.
Mondays they have a promotion, Martinis abs Manis, buy a martini, get a free mani, fabulous? Yes! Wednesdays is Martinis abs Massages. It’s a hook and a gimmick, but it worked! Worth it, oh yeah!
They need to do this in more cities!
I found out about it from someone in one of my classes today, she was meeting a friend there herself. I had been wanting to go, I know, I don’t like chocolate, but I was curious.
I got there, ended up seeing the girl from class, we chatted while she word for get friend. The menu was extensive, well, the chocolate menu that is.
I ordered my first martini ever, chocolate and peanut butter. It tasted like a Resee peanut butter cup, except with vodka, um, not my thing, but I tried it. So I got a hot chocolate with amaretto, better. They had virgin martinis, but they were made with milk, oh well.
If you bite the ends off the chocolate stick, you can use it as a straw! That was tasty!
I ordered sweet potato fries with three sauces for dipping sauces, dark chocolate, which had a kick, rosemary butter and maple mayo, that was the best. I keep trying things, like chocolate to see if I like it, you know, tastes change! Not in this case!
Then I ordered a salad, very-berry, it was good, lots of berries and nuts in a giant martini glass! Tasty!
They had Willy Wonka in a loop in the bar, along with the I Love Lucy episode in the
chocolate
factory and some
episode of Sponge Bob selling chocolate on in the bathroom.
There were some interesting people at the bar while I was there, always fun to people watch.
Then it was my turn for a mani. The girl who did it talked 90 to nothin! She was very nice and chatty and when we talked about travel I asked if she traveled a lot, yup, to Florida and NYC all the time, but she wants more. I think she did a great job, it’s very dark green with a gold party nail, St Patty’s day is coming up, maybe this will give me a touch of luck!
Back to the hotel with my leftovers, way too much food! The valet and front desk were happy!
I wonder what my next adventure will be!!
We all have it, please go get your own.
I was at LaGuardia Airport and sitting at one of the tables, charging my phone. It’s cool, there are so many charging ports and ipads you can eat, play, stay entertained while you wait for your flight.
I sat down at one of these tables at the same time this woman stopped at the table. She was on the phone and I was thinking, ok, she’s going to move soon.
Nope.
She proceeded to stand there, got off the phone, put the phone on the table in front of me [these are small one person booths], then took out get charging cable and put on the table. Huh?
She then reached across from me to plug her charger in! What!? Let me tell you, there were other places she could have plugged in, instead of with me. She then proceeded to just stand there, pretty much over me.
I asked if she should like to sit there, I was willing to move and she could have the seat. “No, it’s ok, it’s fine, I’ll stand here.” What?
A moment later, a guy on the other side of the half wall got up and I pointed to it and told her she could use that one and sit at it, have a seat all to herself. She took me up on my offer.
Now, let me say this…I don’t have a problem sharing space. When I’m at a gate that has the charging ports on those stands, we’re all crowded together, sometimes standing right in front of each other.
But…when we reach over to plug in, we are courteous and ask, or at lease we are aware of each other and those charging stands are not at a personal table. If she has asked, I would have said yes, but she didn’t and she just stood there like this was ok and almost crowded me into the booth. Imagine if I had ordered food!
All I kept thinking of was Dirty Dancing “This is my dance space, this is your dance space”.
Really?
Here I sit, waiting…and waiting…and waiting…
We landed over 30 minutes ago, first, we circled in the air, a little snow in Boston and everyone was circling and diverting. Now, we’re finally on tree ground and we wait.
There is some de-icing happening, I think…but we sit. Don’t you just love this? I did, however, get up to use the facilities because, as I told the flight attendants, and it made them laugh heartily…”I’m trying to avoid a very different type of cleanup” when we get off the plane.
Ok, it’s been 45 minutes, are we there yet? Ooh, here comes the de-icing truck! Now, just the food trucks for the other planes.
Why couldn’t I be stuck in first class for this leg of my trip?
I hope I get off the plane soon, I don’t want to be blogging from here tomorrow!!! Ha ha ha!
See…so close!
I was recognized, does that mean I’m famous?
For the project I am currently on, I recorded the voice overs for several CBLs, Computer Based Learnings, that are pre-requisites for some of the classes I am teaching.
The other day, one of the students said to me, before class stated that I liked familiar. When we didn’t make a connection, he jumps and says “It’s your voice that’s familiar”.
“Did you take the pre-requisite?” Why yes. “Does it sound familiar? Ha ha
I’m famous!
Oh yeah, but I do it all the time! Don’t you?
When I teach, I bring stuff up I know people will laugh about, or at least get a chuckle. This is also dependent on their ages.
It was really funny yesterday because the class was full of women, 40s and up, I knew they would know what I was taking about. But I also knew that the intern, very young guy, wouldn’t have a clue!
Do you remember the old Prell commercial “and they told two friends, and they told two friends and so on, and so on”.
My favorite is talking about the records I had a kid, one in particular. So, now, we’re talking 45s and LPs.
But my favorite is talking about the story albums I had as a kid.
The reason I bring it up is depending on where I am teaching, I might need someone to navigate from my pc as I am at the front of the room where the slide deck is showing.
So, I ask the class if they remember those albums we had as kids, sometime’s 45s and others the LPs. Do they remember the stories that you would read along with? “When you hear this sound, turn the page” “ding”. My favorite, Cinderella.
So, the class laughs with great memories and nostalgia and then I say “ding” and the navigator goes to the next slide. And when I don’t say it, the class does!
A long way to go for that one!
