Another update…



So it was again brought to my attention how infrequently I update this thing. But sometimes I just get busy…or I don’t get mad enough about whatever it is that is happening in my world to warrant venting about it through a post, and in this case…it was the former.



So I flew to California, MD to attend ANOTHER training course. The area was pretty nice but was po-dunk Maryland which led to some logistics issues. The first logistics issue was the 4 hours I spent in my car the first night I was there trying to track down my cousin’s shower gift. I went to 3 different Kohl’s in 2 different states, but I finally found it. The next logistics issue was that I wanted to hang out with my DC friends…but they were an hour and a half away in light traffic…so that wasn’t happening in the middle of the week. But I did get to see a few of them on the weekend…so that was awesome! I hung out with my girls on Saturday and had a blast!! And we decided that men are all the same. As my friend Lauren put it, “Yeah they are all basically the same, they do the same things, eat the same things and you just have to figure out what level of annoyingness you can tolerate…that’s how you find your one.” I’m trying to think of other amusing things that happened while I was there….oh so I went to Starbucks…pretentious headquarters…and I pull into the parking lot. I get out of the car and realize that I am parked in a compact only row…which is fine because I was driving the brightest yellow chevy cobalt coupe…so clearly…I’m a compact. But I didn’t see the sign at first because right next to me (blocking the sign) is a Ford Excursion…not an escape, or an expedition…an excursion! And all of a sudden the Denis Leary I’m an Asshole song starts playing in my head. I really wanted to take a picture…but was sans camera…and it just didn’t come out well on the camera phone.



After the training from hell it was off to the Cuse to put on a bridal shower. I spent most of the whole day Thursday driving to the Cuse and all day Friday running around trying to get stuff done before Saturday. I finally got home at 11 that night and I still had a ton of stuff to do Saturday morning. I was stressed! So I’m sitting at the table venting to my mom when I hear tires squealing. Then a truck pulls into my driveway and almost takes out an innocent car while attempting to do a U turn. He peels down the side road and stops, on the wrong side of the road, right in the middle of the lane. Then another car comes up…parks right in the middle of the road and shuts off its lights. My mom and I were freaking out thinking they were going to cause an accident…and then I saw people milling about. We couldn’t tell exactly what they were doing because our trees obscured our line of sight (one good thing about Utah…that wouldn’t have been a problem…we have no leafy trees). It looked like these guys were fighting, then it looked like they were trying to climb down the embankment and that’s when I realized that there was a car almost in our field. These guys were obviously drunk and I couldn’t tell if anyone was hurt or not…so I decided to call 911. By the time I hung up with the operator, they were all gone. All of them, but the car was still in our field. Next thing I know half my family is in my front yard (cause they are all in the fire department)…and they were all chiding me because it didn’t appear we had a problem. Until they shined the lights in our field and realized that there was a car there. So finally around 3am I got to sleep. A few short hours of sleep later and I was up to finish everything I needed to finish for the shower. 5 cups of coffee later and the shower was on! Thankfully everything appeared to come together just fine…despite my nightmare about it beforehand.



Monday it was back down to DC to catch the flight that left me stranded in Denver in June…that fateful night when I spent the night on the floor of the Denver airport. The drive from Cuse to DC was rather uneventful…although I still hate PA and everything about it. When I checked in at the kiosk it was very grey outside, but the rain managed to hold off until I got out of the city…so I got home when I was supposed to…yay! Waiting at the baggage claim for my luggage there was an African American woman standing there. And instinctively in my head I thought, man this woman must be lost. Which is not a normal reaction anywhere else in America, but when 1.32% of your population is black and almost all of those 1.32% work at Hill…you tend to make snap judgments. So I’m standing there and said woman comes up and asks me if I know the area. And I said yeah, I live here…what are you looking for? Well she was looking for some hotel in Salt Lake City, which I confess, I don’t know all that well, but I showed her how to figure out where she needed to be. As we are standing there some father pulled 3 car seats off the conveyor belt. She exclaims, “Ooh someone must have triplets.” I didn’t have the heart to tell her that the 6 urchins standing 6 feet away were all the guy’s children…and yes 3 of them were under the age of 2. And yes, this is Utah, where people are grossly irresponsible with their abilities to procreate, doing so at such a young age that they aren’t even fully grown up themselves, leading to a culture of chaos and young children running through airport terminals screaming their heads off. No…didn’t have the heart to tell her any of that…she’ll figure that one out on her own…probably after she figures out that she is the only black person in a 40 mile radius, and yes the airport is in a large metropolitan area.



Tuesday it was back to the grind. Not much else to report there. I head back to New York Wednesday. Yes, I know…I was just there. I just love New York so much I can’t stay away…just kidding. I am actually having a bit of a rendezvous, at least that’s what I’m calling it….and it does include a Yankees/Red Sox game…so I’m pretty excited!



I know I had another story for this blog…but I can’t remember what it was at the moment…I’m sure I’ll think about it at some inopportune time when I am nowhere near a computer to blog. Oh well.


That is all.