The silver lining

We stayed at a beautiful suite at the Venetian. It was very fancy shmancy, and also very confusing! The place is a maze. If you ever stay there, you'll know exactly what I mean. We didn't end up seeing any shows, but we definitely did some eating (Rio, Margaritaville, Paris, Venetian, etc.)! There was a lot of walking around too, so I didn't feel TOO bad about all the food that was going into my tummy. I didn't do any gambling, but almost everyone else did. If I ever decide to gamble again, it'll probably have to be craps since the group I was with had some good luck with it. Here's what our suite looked like:



Now for the stressful part... Apparently, doing a flight number search on Southwest is NOT a good idea. When I bought my flight ticket home, I did a flight search...and a flight came up with that number, time, and day. As it turned out...I booked flight 1642, leaving Las Vegas 6:55 pm, on the 18th.....but accidentally booked it for JANUARY and NOT FEBRUARY! YIKES! So I was stranded in Vegas, with the next available flight leaving 6:45 am the following day. Stand-by was not a real option because there were 10 people waiting ahead of me. Thank goodness for Virgin America! It was a later flight, but the experience was definitely better than sleeping at the airport over night.


Now for the silver lining... I haven't had much time to read for fun, and I've been wanting to read this for a while now:


Realizing that I would have to be at the airport for a few hours, I stopped by the little BORDERS in the airport, and happily found it! It's a book about travel, love lost, love found, food, spirituality, personal journey...I love it so far.

Also, not that I didn't already know, but my significant other is pretty fricken amazing. I would go into heavy detail about why he's awesome, but that might be far too vomit-inducing for others to handle. Suffice it to say that he has just consistently been wonderful in every situation thus far.

Lastly, I highly endorse Virgin America. I would say it's better than Jet Blue, and I happen to love Jet Blue.

V

V1) Valentine's Day Recap:

- Went to the SF Pillow Fight. It was AWESOME! I was inhaling feathers, and was coughing them up hours later. (I'll post pictures soon)
- Dinner at Yoshi's was magnificent
- Jazz music was a good way to end the night
- I GOT A STUPID $250 parking ticket! MOTHER F!
a) The fine was for parking in a red zone and a bus zone.
b) Yes, it was red. No, it was not a bus zone!
c) I'm going to try and get it reduced. (Fines: $70 for red zone. $250 for bus zone)
I SO HATE PARKING TICKETS! It's just ridiculous!


V2) Vegas

I'm flying to Vegas tomorrow! YAY! I'll be going with about 8 other people, and meeting up with some friends there as well. Should be awesome fun! Not really sure what we'll be doing, but we'll:

a) be staying at the Venetian:

b) probably watching zumanity:


























c) probably doing some shopping

d) hanging out at clubs/bars in the evening

e) getting fat at buffets

Happy Valentine's Day

Happy Valentine's Day EVERYONE!! Valentine's day must suck for people that don't have anyone to give flowers and other mushy love stuff to. That being said, I love my flowers! hahaha. Thanks Awesome Person.





SF Pillow Fight TONIGHT! Hopefully I can surround myself with an army of friends, and we can pillow kill everyone...even this KID! I heard there will be tons of kids at the fight! The strategy is as follows:
1) Kids

2) Grannies and Grampsies

3) Adults

4) Aliens

5) Robots

Wish me luck!!

Will Ferrell Cracks Me Up!

Will Ferrell cracks me up! His face in this picture is priceless. He really looks like he's trying to model. hahaha! I LOVE IT!

There's going to be a significant amount of driving that I have to do today. Home to Oakland, Oakland to San Rafael, San Rafael to San Francisco, then back home. Ugh. I just hope it'll all be worth it. I have a meeting with SF General tonight. Hopefully I'll land the field placement, and the hours will fit nicely with my already crazy schedule.

I'm going to be having dinner with Jackie and Eric tonight. I haven't seen Eric since I was 14 years old. It should be a nice little reunion.

I finished watching 28 Weeks Later last night. For those of you who know me, I am a big fat wuss when it comes to scary movies, but I can at least handle zombie movies. It was interesting. Although, I'll have to confess that I turned my head several times. I don't do well with scary anticipatory moments in these movies when you know the zombie/ghost/killer is going to jump out at any moment, and you're just waiting for it.



A few years ago, after watching I Heart Huckabees (this is funny now that a presidential candidate is actually named Huckabee), I snuck into The Grudge 2. I made it through three minutes of the previews before I decided I couldn't handle it, and walked out. Yeah. Sad.

Anyway, finally the movie, which was supposed to be funny, but miserably failed in its attempt, can now get the laughs it so desperately wanted. By the way, my parents voted for Huckabee. WHY OH WHY?

Poor Saturday..

My Saturday was bombarded! I woke up early for my stupid 9 am- 6 pm Junior Seminar class. Thank goodness there won't be anymore of those this semester. I headed to the gym after class, then headed to Target, went to my mom's to do some printing & studying, and then closed the night out with a few hours of salsa dancing at Club Montero's. It was definitely a very long day.

I was much kinder to my Sunday. Slept in, cleaned up my room a bit, welcomed the boyfriend home, and had practice with the guys.

This week is going to be packed FULL of stuff I have to do:

- TODAY: Class, dinner with friends, studying..
- Tuesday: Work, gym, cello lessons, meeting with Marin County Health Services
- Wednesday: Work, class, meeting with SF General Psych Department, dinner with some friends in the city.
-Thursday: Work, Valentine's Day Activities (SF Pillow Fight, Dinner, Yoshi's)
- Friday: Work, study, study, study!!
- Saturday/Sunday/Monday: VEGAS!!
Life is busy, but I'm quite happy. I've been going to the gym on a more regular basis lately. Hopefully I can keep it up!

Random note of the day: Demetri Martin is pretty fricken hilarious. Check him out!