So I seriously have started a blog on my phone about 10 times over the past few days but have been interrupted and had to stop before I was finished with my post. So now I am going to take a few minutes at the beginning of my work day to blog since about half the office is out sick and I am working full-time so I have more time to get my projects done. Ha! See how people are more efficient when they work fewer hours?

I don't feel like writing about my New Years trip (it'd take too long and I wouldn't give it justice right now) so I'll just share a couple of stories from the past few days...

1 - On Saturday after I got home from SF at 4am, slept forever, finally woke up, noticed the time of Brooke Bessey's wedding, rushed up to PQ with 20 minutes of reception to spare, said hi for 2 seconds and rushed back down to la Valle de Mission - I was ready to run my errands. I was on the search for a couple DVDs and CDs that I really wanted but hadn't gotten for Christmas so I headed to the homeland aka Target. After finding that Target looked like it had been attacked by wolves and there was nothing left on the shelves, I headed to my second chance, Best Buy. I happily found all I had been looking for at Best Buy and a few other things that I was this close to buying (ehem...LCD TV...) and went ahead and checked out. I got the usual "Would you like a bag?" and like the green gal I am I said "No, I do not wish to kill the earth when I have plenty of room in my purse." So I slipped my hoard into my purse and headed to the doors. As I walked through I heard the lovely BEEP BEEP BEEP of the alarm go off. Great...now I have to deal with this odd looking muscle head who guards the grand entrance of Best Buy. I took my bag to him, told him the story of how I bought them but they were in my purse and he took them and scanned them. No beep... so I walked back through...BEEP BEEP BEEP. Ugh... back to Arnold and he took my purse itself and scanned it over the pad - no beep... another walk through, another BEEP BEEP BEEP and I realized what it was. I was wearing my new jeans and they had one of those security tags sewn into them and I hadn't cut it out before wearing as it had so wisely advised me to do. So I told him this and he asked "Well, where is it?" while holding up the de-magnifying pad. And this is where the embarrassed laughter started. "Um, it is here," I said pointing to my crotch-le area. He laughed and then shoved the pad at my stomach and said "There! It won't beep again!" I tried to laugh it off while secretly hanging my head in embarrassment and walked out the door to go home and sing it off to Mamma Mia!

2 - On to more errands on my Tour de San Diego. After Target & Best Buy (above), a stop at Costco for gas, round about up the 805 to UTC to exchange my jeans, which had so conveniently ripped where you don't want them to rip in San Francisco after I had all my bags packed, at Nordstrom, I headed downtown to Urban Outfitters to return my jeans which failed because of my skinny ankles (I was going for the whole boots over jeans thing...didn't work out). After UO I headed to the Borders that is right behind it to pick up a wall calendar for my room. I found one I liked and set to head back to the car and on to my next stop. After I paid for the calendar and started to walk out I had to get around a ton of people standing at the registers between me and the door. One group was about three big ghetto guys that were getting some movies off hold. I had to squeeze around them so I said "Excuse me" in my sweetest, nicest voice so they moved a little and looked back at me. That is when I got the "How you doin'?" (to be said in your best Joey voice). Pause - how do you respond to that?? Probably not how I did. Ok, play - "Good?" said in a sheepish get-me-outta-here voice and I rushed out the door. I immediately felt stupid and called the expert (my friend Michelle who gets comments like that a lot) to find out what to do in such a situation. Still waiting on that answer...

3 - Yesterday I took my Blanca (iBook laptop) into the Apple store since I feared that I had seen the screen of death. There was a nice little Genius lady that helped me out and when I asked her what she knew about what they were going to announce today at MacWorld about new products, she warmed up immediately...and didn't know anything. Dang. So after about an hour of diagnostics, re-installing the operating system, complaining about other customers and my friend Joel walking in and out of the store like a bored child - I found out that Blanca is about dead. My hard drive is kaput. My wireless AirPort card is no longer working. I think she has seen her last day. So I'll likely be getting a new laptop in the next couple of weeks seeing as I need one for school. I'm hoping they will be releasing a new fancy (tri-screen?) one today but I'm not holding my breath since they did just release the new MacBook and MacBook Pro. We'll see.

Ok so now I really need to get to work! More stories to come as they happen to me...