I don’t have internet, I might as well diiieeee

So I haven’t blogged in forever because the internet at my apartment mysteriously turned off.  Luckily my iPhone has kept me updated with my email, Perez Hilton and all the other blogs I read- I just couldn’t update my own blog.  I called Time Warner like 10 times, and FINALLY got through after being on hold for hours it seemed.  Anyway, so it turns out that our modem decided to self-destruct.  The good news is though, that Time Warner is sending a repairman on Thursday and we will get credited for the time we didn’t have service!! The bad news- I have to wait till Thursday!  Until then I will have to sneak in blog posts at work... shhh!

 

Anyway, so I have lots of updates.

 

I went to SLO last weekend, and had a blast as always!  That town is my Happy Place.  I went because Bret was in Berkeley visiting his brother (my birthday present to him!).  I got to see some of my favorite people (Jessica, Marsha, Brian, Katie S, Big Red & Billy at McClintocks, Ali, Kayla, Mike, Lauren, Katie R, Monica, Phil, Alex, Brett, etc this list goes on and on!!) but it only made me miss them MORE when I left!  I stayed with Ali and Kayla and it was Kayla’s birthday so we threw her a party Friday night, which of course featured the VIP wine bag that I brought (long story, but those kids LOVE boxed wine!) and lots of beer pong.  On Saturday I met up with some girls that live in the new housing complex on campus (Poly Canyon Village) and I was totally jelly that they didn’t have that nice of housing when I lived on campus!!  Then I went to lunch with Mike at the Shack (mmmm chicken fingers!) and topped the night off at my favorite place on earth, McClintocks.  Katie and I went to visit two of our favorite people, Big Red and Billy.  Needless to say we got pretty sauced.  Billy supplied us with Dunbars, Strawberry Lemon Drops, Pomatinis and White Gummi Bears.  We also had a “shot for the road” but of course I don’t remember what it was because all these drinks we had in like 2 hours!  Then Katie and I went to Buffalo (our favorite bar in downtown slo) and drank water for 3 hours waiting for Big Red and Billy to meet us downtown.  We met some random dudes in the meantime, but they were suuuuch losers.  Like, such the stereotypical SLO d-bag who hangs out at bars to meet girls.   Anyway, Buffalo got so crowded that we called it a night around midnight (We started at McC’s at 6, so it was still a long night).  Sunday was a bit quieter, started off with breakfast with Marsha at Linnea’s, then lunch with Monica and a quick visit to Brian and Chris’s.  All in all, an amazing, yet exhausting weekend!!

 

Last week wasn’t nearly as great as my weekend.  Basically, work sucked.  Like, more than normal, if that’s possible!! But I will leave that at that.  Oh, one thing to mention. Thursday was like the worst day EVER.  Really, top 5 worst days.  I texted Bret asking him if we could hang out that night because I was really having a hell of a day and needed to relax and cuddle.  Literally, I was close to tears of frustration and misery half the day.  At about 2pm, the lowest hour of the day (boss yelling, scowling, insulting, etc) a delivery man came and brought flowers for me!! Bret sent me flowers at work (miniature roses in lavender, white, whisper pink and coral!)!! I don’t know HOW he did it, but literally, they couldn’t have come at a better time.  I was so happy and it truly made me realize how much work DOESN’T matter in the grand scheme of things.  Thank God for amazing people like Bret J

 

Towards the end of last week I started to get sick, and I’m surprised I even made it to 5:00 on Friday.  I don’t get sick often so when I do I am a HUGE baby and have a really low tolerance for pain and discomfort.  I really just shut down until I am better (but, I usually get better in 2 days so it’s all a wash).  After work on Friday I went home, and literally slept from 6pm till 8am Saturday morning.  14 hours!! I don’t think I’ve ever done that in my life!  I went over to Bret’s Saturday morning to make him breakfast (scrambled eggs and peanut butter toast!) and then when he went to basketball I treated myself to a trip to the scrapbook store, followed by a few hours of scrapbooking my parent’s ski trips (I have to finish this week, their anniversary is on the 19^th!).    For Valentine’s Day Bret took me to one of my FAVORITE restaurants, called 26 Beach in Venice.  I also got to wear my brand new super cute dark purple dress from Banana!!  We had to wait over an HOUR for our reservation, but they had heat lamps outside and it was worth it.  They make the most amaaaazing chicken parmisian there, and I was sure to only eat 1/3 of it (don’t worry, it was huge) so I can enjoy it for lunch today and tomorrow!!  I wasn’t feeling well so I was a total V-Day dud and had Bret take me home after dinner, and I was asleep by 9pm (I even skipped dessert!!!).

 

Sunday (yesterday) was a lazy day, I got up early again and went to Bret’s for breakfast and some Sunday Morning Tivo (The Office and 30 Rock) before I went home and climbed in bed for a day of healing.  I watched Amelie (AMAZING MOVIE! I’ve seen it before but the 2^nd time was even better!) and Closer, which was a truly depressing movie, I wouldn’t recommend it!  It was basically about two couples who cheat on each other with each other and no one ends up happy.  But, Natalie Portman was in it and she was EXCELLENT.  She’s up there with Kate Winslett as my favorite actresses.

 

So that’s about it! This upcoming weekend Bret and I are flying to Tahoe for some winter fun! We will be gone Friday night through Monday night, and I am just antsy in my pantsy!   Tahoe is getting TONS of snow right now, so the skiing should be great! Bret, David and I are also going to make a trip to Harrah’s for some blackjack (fingers crossed for a big win, though I’ll probably stick to slots!!)