So yes, the box did come yesterday, FINALLY. And so far, according to my mom, nothing appears broken.
Chop and I made it safely to the land of ice and snow, and right now we are sitting in bed and outside the windows the world is totally white, covered in snow and very pretty. I’d estimate there’s around two feet of snow on the ground and it’s still falling. And did I mention it’s 10 degrees?
We got up at 8, expecting to have no problems leaving town by 10AM.
Except we didn’t leave the house till 10:10, and we still had to go to the post office, the bank and put air in a tire.
The post office? Eight people in front of me. And when I got up there, they said they couldn’t help me, and the guy rolled his eyes. Nice.
Then there were a billion people at the coffee shop, everyone was driving below the speed limit and in front of me and we still hadn’t dropped the dog off.
I drove 90 the whole way (well, as much as I could), and managed to cover 70 miles in a little under an hour.
We parked and the tram over dropped us off at 12:30. Our flight? At 1:25.
And I am actually sitting here at the gate. WTF, you say?
No one at the checkin counter and no one, NO ONE, at the security checkpoint. Just us.
Our minds are boggled right now. From curb to gate, it took us 26 minutes. I have never gotten through an airport so quickly in my life.
I sent a 15lb box to my mom’s house on December 10, and have been waiting to hear from my mom that it arrived. It contained 90% of the presents for my immediate and extended family back home, seeing as how this year the Chop and I are going to visit his family.
Today my post office said they couldn’t help me to track down the package (even though I got insurance and therefore have a tracking number), but my mother’s post office said, “No problem, what’s the number.”
According to her post office, my box is still SITTING AT MY POST OFFICE.
I’m really hoping that’s wrong. I’m hoping I go into my PO tomorrow (before we have to fly out) and they tell me, oh, the package should be there today.
But I’m not that optimistic, and if it’s still there, I plan to open up a can of whoop ass and demand they overnight it.
I am so pissed right now, I can’t even tell you.
Going 30 miles in the snow at 8PM to pick up the Chop from the train? No fun.
Getting a flat tire? Definitely no fun.
Realizing that two computer nerds with no previous tire experience can change a flat tire, in the snow, and find the entire situation hysterically funny? Priceless.
My mom decided to boycott a tree this year since I’m not coming home and so “we’ll just go over to your sister’s since she has two trees.”
I decided that was totally unacceptable, and playing on one year when my dad brought home the ugliest tree ever, I sent them this: This Tree Needs You.
They sent me a video message just now of Christmas music playing and this tiny little tree, in the same location as the tree usually is (and usually it’s 20 feet tall, so this tree looks hysterical).
One bad part about being in a relationship… trading off Christmas’ with family. :p
(Oh, and on a side note, Urban Outfitters used DHL to ship this to them and a) it took two weeks when it was supposed to take one and b) when I complained, they said they’d update the website and I don’t have a choice of shipping method. Ridiculous.)
Yesterday I spent three hours getting the Chop’s car so it wouldn’t be towed.
Three, you say? Yes. FREAKING THREE.
I picked up my friend Sara, we drove the thirty miles to where the car was parked in about 45 minutes and then spent 30 minutes trying to find the damn car. Yeah. Oddly enough, finding “C20” in a mall parking garage with three sections and nine levels (so three Cs) the week before Christmas is not an easy task.
Even if you set off the car alarm every few minutes, hoping to hear it above the din.
Then I realized that the $20 I had on me probably wouldn’t cover the fee for his car, so off we went to find an ATM.
Giant malls + Christmas = mass hysteria and insanity.
It was good times, all around, lol.
Suffice to say, the Chop owes me big time. 😛
Out of sheer boredom, and because my cousin asked me too, I joined Facebook last night.
Ugh, I know, but it’s way better than MyEvilSpace, and honestly, now I’m a little entertained.
I’ve had two long back-and-forths now with old friends who I haven’t talked to in over seven years. It’s a little insane.
Now I’m trying to stay off it, because really, it’s a little like crack, lol.
Saturday the Chop and I went shopping to get some last minute groceries and return a broken item to Target.. I won’t bore you with the details, but let’s just say Target less than two weeks before Christmas? Not good. No, no, no. The traffic, the insanity, the mounds of snow and ice… nightmare.
When we got home it was dark (winter sucks that way), and I was on the phone with a friend. Somehow, during the phone call, the insane dog desperately needing to pee and all the bags, we forgot to shut Chop’s trunk. Yeah. And it snowed and rain and the wind blew and the next morning it was bad, very, very bad.
I spent yesterday baking, which is typically a family activity and that made me a little sad, but feeding the burnt cookies (new oven, whoops) to a very willing dog made it a little better. 🙂 Chop delivered some to the landlord and some to our nice new neighbors who brought us fudge the other evening, and I am taking a plate to work… one that will be devoured in seconds, knowing them.
Today he went to NYC for work for four days. Of course the Amtrak station parking lot was full, so he ended up parking a mile away, hoofing it, missing the train and then learning his car might be towed. It’s a stick-shift and so I can’t get a taxi there, because I couldn’t drive it home, lol, and I can’t seem to find anyone to go with me, so that sucks. But fortunately he just had his year-end review and he’s getting a raise (again, the bastard… my job sucks), so he can just pay to get it out, lol.
My best friend sent me presents off Amazon this year (so smart) and so now I can watch Annie and Mary Poppins while Chop is gone. Yay for me. 🙂
We actually opened presents this weekend (it’s just easier when we are going out of town), and one of my surprise gifts was a Nintendo DS… does anyone have any good game recommendations? We have Brain Age, and I want Monopoly, lol, but there are SO many more and I need help!
Buckets of snow came down yesterday around here, falling at a rate of about two inches per hour, and we ended up with around 10 to 12 inches.
Regina thinks it’s the greatest thing ever and loves to be outside.
And this is our snowman. 🙂
