Tuesday, October 30, 2007

The Dirtiest Thing In A Hotel Room

Time: 11:08pm
Mood: Sleepy
Song of the moment: Darren Hayes - Lucky Town

Another day, another week in Detroit. Seems like these weekly trips to D-town is going to be never ending. I just wish I could stay home for a full week.. just once!

I've spend the entire night in my hotel room. The moment I got off work, I headed straight to my hotel room and ordered room service. Room service always tastes better when you're not paying for it :D Actually, everything is more enjoyable when you're not paying for it! LoL! So because I've been in my room all night, I've had a lot of time to think. I think I've pin-pointed the dirtiest thing in the hotel room. Not the floor (b/c I'm guessing that gets cleaned/vacuumed every so often), or the bathroom walls (those get cleaned too). I realized the one thing that everyone uses that probably never gets cleaned is... drumroll..... the tv remote control! Honestly, when is the last time you've cleaned your remote? God knows what people have touched before touching the remote.. *shiver*

After realizing this, I quickly wraped the remote in a towel.

So gross!!

Monday, October 22, 2007

More Wasabi Please

Time: 9:39pm
Mood: Tired
Song of the moment: Foo Fighters - The Pretender

Here I am again, in Detroit. The fun never ends. I already want to go home! This is surely an indication this is going to be a long week.

So I went out with my co-workers for dinner tonight - felt like Japanese so we headed to Benihanas. Not the best Japanese food but it satisfied the craving. As I was eating the mediocore sushi I realized I eat my sushi with a lot of wasabi. Well, a lot more wasabi than I used to eat it with. And it made me realize how much I've changed. It's funny how sometimes you think you havn't change, that you're the same person as you were a few years ago. In most cases, these minor changes in our live goes unnoticed. But they do add up.

Despite all these changes, I also realize my principles have remained the same. And I see this through the friends that I've kept in touch with. Most of my closest friends that I hang out with on a semi-regular basis are all from highschool. Heck, the love of my life is one of my highschool friends. We usually stick with friends that have similar morals and principles - it's who we get along with best. The fact that I still have friends from my childhood speaks volumes.

Makes me feel that even though we are getting older, even though we've been somewhat jaded by our experiences in life, we still have that spark we all had in highschool. And to not lose that - that's the true gift of youth.

I hope I feel this way forever :)

Saturday, October 20, 2007

Excuse Me, What Do You Think You're Doing?

Time: 4:30pm
Mood: Relaxed
Song of the moment: Darren Hayes - Happy Town

I've spent this entire Saturday at home. Not that I'm complaining. I was supposed to go to Diana's convo today in Waterloo, but we were notified last night we were getting our bedroom furniture delivered (did I mention we bought a bedroom set? LoL). So I decided to stay back and wait.

After the delivery guys came, I thought I would get some housewife-like chores out of the way. Suddenly my doorbell rings. Reluctantly, I opened the door, knowing fully well it was a salesperson that was most likely going to be selling me something. And sure enough it was. Some guy was at the door trying to sell me a hydro/gas flat rate. Wow, you know you're a home owner when... LoL. So anyway, I told him I already signed up for a flat rate, and I was not interested. But he wanted me to prove that I already had one and asked if he could see my bill. So to humor him, I grabbed an old bill and showed it to him. He told me there was no indication on my bill that I was on a flat rate, yadda yadda yadda.. then he whips out this form and starts to "sign me up". Woah.... hold on there buddy! So I ask him "Excuse me... what do you think you're doing? Are you signing me up without my consent?" Just because my bill does not show a fixed rate, doesn't mean I'm interested. Then he tries to pull his sales pitch one me, but I'm a smart cookie and I'm not buying it. It just sounded like I was going to end up paying more in the long run. I finally managed to get rid of him, I quickly run upstairs and found my fixed-rate contract I had signed up for when I first moved in. That retard was offering me a higher fixed rate than what I had originally signed up for, AND he was going to just sign me up!

I hate pushy sales people :P If they're pushy, it means it's not a good deal.

Saturday, October 13, 2007

A Relaxing Night In

Time: 7:41pm
Mood: Happy (and tired)
Song of the moment: Darren Hayes - The Only One

Finally, a night of nothingness - exactly what I needed! Here I am, sitting at home in front of the tv, our faux fireplace is lit up, my legs propped up on my new coffee table (we bought them a month ago.... they finally came in!) and watching the Leaf's game with my hubby. This is definitely nice :D Domestic bliss! This is one of the rare opportunities I get to do this. I've been travelling to Detroit almost every week. The travelling is definitely taking it's toll on me. All the errands I would have run over the week, I have to do them all during the weekend, so my weekends are pretty busy. My friend Jenn recently told me that currently I was the busiest person she knows. :/ that doesn't sound good. It doesn't help I also took a tutoring job on Saturdays, leaving me less time to do everything. I've hardly had time to go shopping for furniture. I managed to squeeze in the furniture shopping last Sunday and we bought a new dining room table! *yay* I can't wait til it comes in - our house is looking more like a home every day :)
Last weekend was the Thanksgiving long weekend, so the timecard was filled with family dinners. Jimmy and I got to celebrate our first Thanksgiving together in a hospital. Yup you heard me.. in a hospital. Right before we went furniture shopping on Sunday, we stopped for a quick bite at a McDonalds. I had a chicken burger, and he had a quarter pounder. This was the only thing we ate different that day. Right after dinner, I began getting sharp stomach pains... and it got worse as the night progressed. I've never thrown up so much before in my life, I couldn't even hold down water! It was horrible! So around midnight Jimmy decides to take me to the hospital. We waited....and waited... and waited.. around 5:30am I finally get to see a doctor, and she tells me to take Gravol. *grrr* you mean I wanted 5 1/2 hours so some doctor could tell me to take Gravol?!?! And by that time I was already feeling better. I wasn't impressed. And now I'm completely turned off by eating McD's.. won't be eating that for a while!
Ok this is definitely long overdue: here are just a few pics from the wedding & from the honeymoon: