I have stated before that I have yet to be a bridezilla... I mean really I've been nothing but go with the flow on this wedding thing, but the one thing that I refuse to budge and/or compromise on is being on a separate return flight home after the wedding... Now due to some overly dramatic tendencies, I have become rather upset and feel my day as been completely ruined... Feel free to label me a bridezilla for this one...
My genius fiance decides to forward me the travel info the travel office sent him without really looking into it better... Since his trip is going to be paid for by the government and mine is not this is where the problem is... He has been quoted flights that cost just over $2300... Now to get on the same return flight we are going to have to spend that much on me... I looked into how much it would cost for a one way ticket on that flight and that was $2100!!! I can fly round trip from Lima to Miami and round trip from Miami to Minot according to this flight info for $2300 but just a one way ticket will cost me almost as much??? This is where I would like to say "What the Fuck?!" to Delta airlines....
So I have continued my research to see how cheap I can get flights for via Bing Travel... The sad thing is, is that I can book us both flights on Bing that get us from here in Lima to Miami and then from Miami to Minot and back to Miami and then back to Lima for just under $2200.... Now can someone please tell me why/how the government travel office does not use Bing to book any of it's flights??? How is it that I can get us both to fly for $100 less than what they've found for just him to fly? This just does not make any sense to me what so ever....
Given that last I checked, technically the US government has some budget problems. So to me something about them not using every available option to get THE cheapest flights for things like this FEML trip is somewhat ass backwards... Now I may have also sent a couple unnecessary angry emails to said fiance, but I am pissed... I just absolutely refuse to fly home to Lima on a separate flight 5 days after getting married... There is just no letting this one go in my book....
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Sunday, May 15, 2011
Baking Adventures
Now in order to kick June Cleaver's ass at chocolate chip cookies (I am not even trying to fuck with Betty Crocker) I need all the proper supplies. Kitchen Aid Mixer - check... chocolate chips - check... butter - check... flour - check... brown sugar and regular sugar - check... vanilla extract - check... baking soda - WHERE THE FUCK ARE YOU!?!?!?!?
Finding all the proper supplies for making your basic chocolate chip cookies was derailed by a simple ingredient, baking soda.... I'm sure that lucky bitch June just waltzed into her local supermarket in the United States and picked up a box of Arm&Hammer baking soda and dropped it in her basket... I had no such luck... Since I forgot to Google translate what it was in Spanish before we went to Plaza Veya, I wandered up to Vivanda (Plaza Veya was out of our kind of OJ anyways)... After much wandering around, looking in circles, and feeling puzzled, I finally just did my best attempt at asking...
The first person made it sound like this simple little item was towards the front of the store... Again lost and confused, I attempted to ask someone else... That lady directed me to some guy who then asked another guy who then found another guy... That's right I, Anne E. Riley, ended up with 3 guys looking for baking soda... Finally one comes back to tell me that I have to go to the pharmacy to get backing soda... The fucking farmacia for bicarbonato de sosa...
Good news... The pharmacy was across the street and I successfully obtained my damn baking soda... And praise sweet baby baking Jesus that it was only dos soles ($0.73)...
Since I successfully obtained the last ingredient to make cookies, I can now proceed with my mission to kick June Cleaver's ass...
Finding all the proper supplies for making your basic chocolate chip cookies was derailed by a simple ingredient, baking soda.... I'm sure that lucky bitch June just waltzed into her local supermarket in the United States and picked up a box of Arm&Hammer baking soda and dropped it in her basket... I had no such luck... Since I forgot to Google translate what it was in Spanish before we went to Plaza Veya, I wandered up to Vivanda (Plaza Veya was out of our kind of OJ anyways)... After much wandering around, looking in circles, and feeling puzzled, I finally just did my best attempt at asking...
The first person made it sound like this simple little item was towards the front of the store... Again lost and confused, I attempted to ask someone else... That lady directed me to some guy who then asked another guy who then found another guy... That's right I, Anne E. Riley, ended up with 3 guys looking for baking soda... Finally one comes back to tell me that I have to go to the pharmacy to get backing soda... The fucking farmacia for bicarbonato de sosa...
Good news... The pharmacy was across the street and I successfully obtained my damn baking soda... And praise sweet baby baking Jesus that it was only dos soles ($0.73)...
Since I successfully obtained the last ingredient to make cookies, I can now proceed with my mission to kick June Cleaver's ass...
Friday, May 13, 2011
Wedding and such
Considering it's like 15 weeks till my wedding and I have it all pretty much planned... I would say I'm doing great!!! But what happened to BRIDEZILLA!!!??? I was 100% sure that I would be the bridezilla from hell... the kind that make a wedding planner cry... I was hell bent on having an October wedding most likely back in Washington.... I also was going to have a ballgown type dress and all sorts of formal fancy-schmancy shit... Well let's just put the brakes on that pony right there.... Instead I said okay sure why not? to an August wedding in Key West, FL.... I also found a dress that is more along the a-line slim fitting type... I've been waiting for bridezilla to come rearing her gorgeous head but to no avail... No bridezilla action at all!! I've found a wedding planner and asked the appropriate questions regarding the wedding package she quoted for us, found a restaurant to have dinner at after the wedding, found a dress, and found a hotel.... To keep this nice and simple we left to invites to just family in the form of a "we are getting married in Key West on August 20th... If you can make it that's great... If not don't sweat it..." So at most we are going to have 12 guests... Nice and simple :) I'd like to thing of this as more of a great big happy family vacation with a wedding on a Saturday afternoon/evening... Really I have this whole wedding deal all planned out and it's just a matter of finalizing some loose ends... I foresee this event be 90% booked if not 100% done and ready by the end of the month!
Now onto a more serious topic... School... After the event mentioned above, I plan to start working on my bachelors online... This will not only fill up more of my time so I don't get as bored and feel the strong desire to play Farmville but it will also allow me to get a job that doesn't involve serving beverages and food to overly needy and picky "guests"... Now don't get me wrong, serving is a perfectly good job but I've done my time and I'm burnt out on that gig and I'd just like something slightly more fulfilling... I also have become more fond of the idea of that 9 to 5 kinda thing.... Now comes the big question I've had to ask myself, "What should I get my bachelors in?" Keeping in mind that I did not do so hot in accounting (maybe it's cause I thought dating a bartender in Seattle was a better idea than studying and showing up to class on time or I just generally sucked at it) and I also did not care for economics (maybe because of the first reason as accounting and it was also at 7am which is not my best functioning hour)... Economics seemed to go right over my head even when I tried to apply myself at first... I have ruled out Business Administration as well as any degree that seemed to have an abundance of accounting or economics classes.... The two that have peaked my interest the most are Public Administration and Public Relations & Marketing... I'm willing to take a vote on who thinks I would do better at which one...
Public Administration
or
Public Relations and Marketing
I still have quite some time to figure out the best course of action for me on this one... In the meantime, hopefully I will start some Spanish lessons a couple times a week to hopefully fill up a couple more hours of my day... There is only so much cleaning and facebooking one can do before both become boring....
I totally missed the fact that Wednesday was the 2 month mark since I arrived here in Lima.... Eventually I'll figure out some hobbies and a couple more fulfilling things to do... I'm still trying to find that stereotypical 50's housewife that is buried somewhere deep inside... I have the dress and I have the heels but I do need the pearls (well I have fake pearls but real would be better)... I got a kitchen aid mixer, which is totally bad ass (Thank you mom!), that should help aid in the whole June Cleaver thing... Watch out bitch! I'm coming for you... Your chocolate chip cookies will have nothing on mine! Now I am pretty sure June didn't chug down bottles of wine and mix and match her alcohol to end up with a hangover from hell the next day but I too am slowly getting a grasp on my limitations since I've become a little on the old side since turning 25.....
One nice thing about this not having to work thing and not having too much to do is that I can go draw myself up a nice bubble bath at 2:30 in the afternoon... With that being said, it's bubble bath time!
Now onto a more serious topic... School... After the event mentioned above, I plan to start working on my bachelors online... This will not only fill up more of my time so I don't get as bored and feel the strong desire to play Farmville but it will also allow me to get a job that doesn't involve serving beverages and food to overly needy and picky "guests"... Now don't get me wrong, serving is a perfectly good job but I've done my time and I'm burnt out on that gig and I'd just like something slightly more fulfilling... I also have become more fond of the idea of that 9 to 5 kinda thing.... Now comes the big question I've had to ask myself, "What should I get my bachelors in?" Keeping in mind that I did not do so hot in accounting (maybe it's cause I thought dating a bartender in Seattle was a better idea than studying and showing up to class on time or I just generally sucked at it) and I also did not care for economics (maybe because of the first reason as accounting and it was also at 7am which is not my best functioning hour)... Economics seemed to go right over my head even when I tried to apply myself at first... I have ruled out Business Administration as well as any degree that seemed to have an abundance of accounting or economics classes.... The two that have peaked my interest the most are Public Administration and Public Relations & Marketing... I'm willing to take a vote on who thinks I would do better at which one...
Public Administration
or
Public Relations and Marketing
I still have quite some time to figure out the best course of action for me on this one... In the meantime, hopefully I will start some Spanish lessons a couple times a week to hopefully fill up a couple more hours of my day... There is only so much cleaning and facebooking one can do before both become boring....
I totally missed the fact that Wednesday was the 2 month mark since I arrived here in Lima.... Eventually I'll figure out some hobbies and a couple more fulfilling things to do... I'm still trying to find that stereotypical 50's housewife that is buried somewhere deep inside... I have the dress and I have the heels but I do need the pearls (well I have fake pearls but real would be better)... I got a kitchen aid mixer, which is totally bad ass (Thank you mom!), that should help aid in the whole June Cleaver thing... Watch out bitch! I'm coming for you... Your chocolate chip cookies will have nothing on mine! Now I am pretty sure June didn't chug down bottles of wine and mix and match her alcohol to end up with a hangover from hell the next day but I too am slowly getting a grasp on my limitations since I've become a little on the old side since turning 25.....
One nice thing about this not having to work thing and not having too much to do is that I can go draw myself up a nice bubble bath at 2:30 in the afternoon... With that being said, it's bubble bath time!
Sunday, May 8, 2011
Surviving
It's been awhile since I blogged... Not a whole lot happened since I was overly excited with being engaged. It took like a week before it really set in and while I'm not in La La land about it I'm still wonderfully blessed to have Scott... especially after a couple white wine meltdowns........ I think my highlights of April were eating cow heart and "letting my fitness flag fly"... May has started off kinda weird... Maybe it will become a little more normal soon?
I kinda got into a slight routine in April of cleaning... Mondays seem to be scrub everything and put everything back in it's place after the weekend... Tuesdays and Wednesday usually involve laundry... I don't really do much on Thursdays... Fridays I do a light cleaning.... I've gotten kinda bored but I do my best to keep somewhat occupied.... Part of my boredom at times now is Scott working on homework for his first class towards his MBA... I can't bitch too much cause it will beneficial in the long run....
Now onto the cow heart incident... Scott and I went out with some people from the office to a bar just up the street... it's pretty cool... like 4 different levels.... it was almost like an adult tree house! This guy Danny ordered some appetizer platter that had a bunch of stuff... I thought he was just trying to fuck with the other girls from the office and tell them that the beef on a skewer was cow heart......... It looked like regular beef to me so I just tore into that like it was..... It tasted just like a regular cut of beef but I guess he wasn't kidding and I accidentally ate some poor cows heart...... I can't say that I would knowingly order it and eat it again but if it was served and nothing was said about it, I'd probably eat it again...
As for my fitness flag flying.... I'm not trying to lose weight or anything crazy like that but I could stand to use a little toning and just general getting in shape.... So Scott has actually gotten my ass down to the little gym and up on the Eliptical as well as doing a smidge of yoga... after the first day he was teasing me and said "Little Annie hung up her freak flag and let her fitness flag fly!" WTF? I dunno where that came from but it was kinda funny in the moment....
May... what is there to say about May so far.... Cinco de Mayo was pretty fun after my every little thing seems to be going wrong kind of day... Had Nicole over for some carne asada burritos and margaritas... Friday involved Scott laying on the couch when he got home and not really getting off of it and me taking care of him... It's only fair considering I've had a couple of those days but I was in far worse condition...
Yesterday was a strange strange day.... It's like the moment we left the apartment it was just nothing but crazy... People were driving crazy (well crazy for them cause they drive like bat shit crazy motherfuckers).... I swear we almost got in like 6 accidents on our way to Plaza Veya.... I've gotten used to most of the crazy driving but I was legit in my concerns for dieing in the car yesterday... Traffic was awful around the store cause one of the lights wasn't working... We never get in and out of Plaza Veya in 15 minutes and that happened.... Then we decided to take a different way home which was equally backed up... We then tried to go see Thor up at Park Kennedy to find out it was dubbed not subtitled... Forget that plan... On to trying to find the sushi restaurant across the park that we couldn't find a couple weeks ago.... Looked both ways and proceeded to speed walk across the street... All the sudden Scott is running and I am left behind in the middle of the street only to see a very large very fast moving bus coming towards me.... Running forward would have resulted in me being plastered across the front of a bus so I chose to jump backwards.... I have decided from now on we will stick to crosswalks with green walk lights only.... We eventually made it home safe and sound... Dinner was also kind of weird... Most places you go you just seat yourself... Proceeded to do so at Chilis and we seemed pretty much invisible for the longest time... adding to the overall strangeness of the day... After dinner we caught Fast and the Furious 5 which was good for the kind of movie it is.... On our walk home I saw some wild little guinea pigs on a flat part of a cliff so that was kinda cool... I had to suppress the desire to jump over the little brick wall and try to catch one for a pet....
And here we are today on this lovely warm beautiful mothers day :) Hopefully today doesn't involve almost getting blasted by a bus and is an enjoyable day......
I kinda got into a slight routine in April of cleaning... Mondays seem to be scrub everything and put everything back in it's place after the weekend... Tuesdays and Wednesday usually involve laundry... I don't really do much on Thursdays... Fridays I do a light cleaning.... I've gotten kinda bored but I do my best to keep somewhat occupied.... Part of my boredom at times now is Scott working on homework for his first class towards his MBA... I can't bitch too much cause it will beneficial in the long run....
Now onto the cow heart incident... Scott and I went out with some people from the office to a bar just up the street... it's pretty cool... like 4 different levels.... it was almost like an adult tree house! This guy Danny ordered some appetizer platter that had a bunch of stuff... I thought he was just trying to fuck with the other girls from the office and tell them that the beef on a skewer was cow heart......... It looked like regular beef to me so I just tore into that like it was..... It tasted just like a regular cut of beef but I guess he wasn't kidding and I accidentally ate some poor cows heart...... I can't say that I would knowingly order it and eat it again but if it was served and nothing was said about it, I'd probably eat it again...
As for my fitness flag flying.... I'm not trying to lose weight or anything crazy like that but I could stand to use a little toning and just general getting in shape.... So Scott has actually gotten my ass down to the little gym and up on the Eliptical as well as doing a smidge of yoga... after the first day he was teasing me and said "Little Annie hung up her freak flag and let her fitness flag fly!" WTF? I dunno where that came from but it was kinda funny in the moment....
May... what is there to say about May so far.... Cinco de Mayo was pretty fun after my every little thing seems to be going wrong kind of day... Had Nicole over for some carne asada burritos and margaritas... Friday involved Scott laying on the couch when he got home and not really getting off of it and me taking care of him... It's only fair considering I've had a couple of those days but I was in far worse condition...
Yesterday was a strange strange day.... It's like the moment we left the apartment it was just nothing but crazy... People were driving crazy (well crazy for them cause they drive like bat shit crazy motherfuckers).... I swear we almost got in like 6 accidents on our way to Plaza Veya.... I've gotten used to most of the crazy driving but I was legit in my concerns for dieing in the car yesterday... Traffic was awful around the store cause one of the lights wasn't working... We never get in and out of Plaza Veya in 15 minutes and that happened.... Then we decided to take a different way home which was equally backed up... We then tried to go see Thor up at Park Kennedy to find out it was dubbed not subtitled... Forget that plan... On to trying to find the sushi restaurant across the park that we couldn't find a couple weeks ago.... Looked both ways and proceeded to speed walk across the street... All the sudden Scott is running and I am left behind in the middle of the street only to see a very large very fast moving bus coming towards me.... Running forward would have resulted in me being plastered across the front of a bus so I chose to jump backwards.... I have decided from now on we will stick to crosswalks with green walk lights only.... We eventually made it home safe and sound... Dinner was also kind of weird... Most places you go you just seat yourself... Proceeded to do so at Chilis and we seemed pretty much invisible for the longest time... adding to the overall strangeness of the day... After dinner we caught Fast and the Furious 5 which was good for the kind of movie it is.... On our walk home I saw some wild little guinea pigs on a flat part of a cliff so that was kinda cool... I had to suppress the desire to jump over the little brick wall and try to catch one for a pet....
And here we are today on this lovely warm beautiful mothers day :) Hopefully today doesn't involve almost getting blasted by a bus and is an enjoyable day......
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