Thursday, December 30, 2004
Alright, so here's my holiday story:
12/21/04
Visited my dad during lunch at work. It's way too hard to do that. I'm always an emotional mess, but I had to because that was the only time I could visit before Christmas. I put a wreath on his grave. I miss my father immensely.
12/22/04
Wake up INCREDIBLY BLOODY early to go to the airport, which actually ends up being a good thing. Arrive in Toronto at 730pm and had a snowball fight with my nieces and newphews.
Toronto is beautiful all covered in pure white snow. It looks like a postcard outside! Mom and I are going to have a white Christmas after all!
12/23/04
My niece Ciara (name of her favorite singer) and I are stuck at home. We just chit chat and watch TV. There was black out that night that scared the bejesus out of us because I was telling her about the scary bunny in "Donnie Darco" before it happened. Eek!
12/24/04
Christmas Eve
We went to Eaton Centre just because I need to go to H&M. It's a wonderous H&M because it is like the one in Times Square. It's a glorious 3 stories tall and I shopped a little...not as much as I thought I would, but that's ok. The best shopping was yet to come.
OH! Guess what I found?! I found the dual DVD set of "Pride and Prejudice"!! I didn't realize it was filmed in 1995, so our dear Colin Firth is quite young looking and oh so very handsome. I can see why he sent hearts a flutter that year. *sigh* I'd like to marry Mr. Darcy...
We then went to dinner at my cousin's house and rang in Christmas. I sent about a dozen text messages to friends. On the way home to my dad's sister's house, I wept silently. I was having fun, but I realized while going home that he wasn't physically there. I know he was all around, though...I could feel him.
12/25/04
Christmas Day
Woke up late and had an absolutely lazy day. Mom and my aunts went to Woodbine Casino. Ciara and just lounged around and eventually went to Yorkdale to watch "Darkness". That's the second time I watched a scary movie on Christmas day. I watched "Scream" a few years ago. I don't know why we watched that movie, knowing we'd have to take the subway home. There's a scary part on the subway, and it was a pretty scary movie overall...but the ending was lame.
12/26/04
BOXING DAY
Alright, this is what I was talking about ealier...YOU CRAZY CANADIANS! It was WAY worse than any after Thanksgiving Day sale I've been to. Basically, the larger stores weren't the problem. H&M was crazy with lines and people, but nothing I haven't seen before. It's the rest of the mall that was the problem.
You know those security gates that they pull to close the stores after hours? Well, most of the smaller stores would have small openings for people to file in and out, and some stores even checked your bags. It cause congestion all over the mall, and just made the chaos worse than it needed to be.
On top of everything, my Chargers LOST to the Colts 34-31, AND Payton Manning beat Dan Marino's most touchdowns in a season. If we had won, I wouldn't have cared. But we LOST. I guess it's ok because we have already secured a place in the playoffs. Tickets went on sale this week. I obviously didn't get any. Grrrr!
12/27/04
Going Home!
Ok, so yeah, we were SUPPOSED TO GO HOME, but because of a delay by America West that was unknown to the passengers, we were on the tarmack for just under 2 hours. We missed our connection into Las Vegas, and the earliest flight out at that point was on Wed 12/28! WHAT?! I called UNLV and whined to him about being stuck. He wasn't in town yet, but was coming home the next day. Our baggage went on to San Diego without us, or so I thought. They wouldn't reimburse us for a rental car.
So there we were, no baggage, no phone charger, no way to get home, and I had to miss work for 2 DAYS! We took our taxi to The Hampton Inn and decided to stay and rest.
12/28/04
We ate the free breakfast downstairs. UNLV flew in that morning and drove me and mom to Walmart so that we could get extra clothes and underwear. As a thank you, my mom treated him (and us) to lunch at Panda Inn. Las Vegas was FLOODED. It was pouring rain. We had heard that California was worse. We ended up eating dinner in our room, and UNLV couldn't join us because he was doing work that needed to be done before he came home for New Year's. Besides, a lot of roads were flooded and my mom didn't want him to drive.
12/29/04
Hotel computers were down so we didn't have to check out. We take a shuttle to the airport, and it's insanity. Lines were incredibly long. We were lucky to have gotten in line way early and we were able to be booked on a direct flight to San Diego instead of going by way of Pheonix.
We get to San Diego, and go to baggage claim for America West. Turns out, my mom's luggage is there, BUT MINE IS NOT! Holy SHIT what in the BLOODY hell is going on?!
I sat down and just cried out of sheer frustration. I called into work and told them that I just wasn't going in until Thursday. I called UNLV and whined again.
The thing that pisses me off is that both areas of baggage claim (Vegas and San Diego) had no idea what was going on. Both asked, "So why is it that you missed your flight?" Don't you have it in your bloody computer you idiots?! I missed my flight because you have an incompetent airline and I will NEVER fly America West EVER AGAIN! Not only we were delayed, but we had to PAY for our meals on board!
12/30/04
So today, I will go to the airport and find out if my luggage arrived. It was all over the news that baggage from the east coast was brought in today.
I will party my ASS off tomorrow. UNLV is coming tomorrow, and we're meeting a gal from work and her friends. Should be fun!
Happy New year if I don't get to get in another blog before then. I'm glad this year is DONE.
12/21/04
Visited my dad during lunch at work. It's way too hard to do that. I'm always an emotional mess, but I had to because that was the only time I could visit before Christmas. I put a wreath on his grave. I miss my father immensely.
12/22/04
Wake up INCREDIBLY BLOODY early to go to the airport, which actually ends up being a good thing. Arrive in Toronto at 730pm and had a snowball fight with my nieces and newphews.
Toronto is beautiful all covered in pure white snow. It looks like a postcard outside! Mom and I are going to have a white Christmas after all!
12/23/04
My niece Ciara (name of her favorite singer) and I are stuck at home. We just chit chat and watch TV. There was black out that night that scared the bejesus out of us because I was telling her about the scary bunny in "Donnie Darco" before it happened. Eek!
12/24/04
Christmas Eve
We went to Eaton Centre just because I need to go to H&M. It's a wonderous H&M because it is like the one in Times Square. It's a glorious 3 stories tall and I shopped a little...not as much as I thought I would, but that's ok. The best shopping was yet to come.
OH! Guess what I found?! I found the dual DVD set of "Pride and Prejudice"!! I didn't realize it was filmed in 1995, so our dear Colin Firth is quite young looking and oh so very handsome. I can see why he sent hearts a flutter that year. *sigh* I'd like to marry Mr. Darcy...
We then went to dinner at my cousin's house and rang in Christmas. I sent about a dozen text messages to friends. On the way home to my dad's sister's house, I wept silently. I was having fun, but I realized while going home that he wasn't physically there. I know he was all around, though...I could feel him.
12/25/04
Christmas Day
Woke up late and had an absolutely lazy day. Mom and my aunts went to Woodbine Casino. Ciara and just lounged around and eventually went to Yorkdale to watch "Darkness". That's the second time I watched a scary movie on Christmas day. I watched "Scream" a few years ago. I don't know why we watched that movie, knowing we'd have to take the subway home. There's a scary part on the subway, and it was a pretty scary movie overall...but the ending was lame.
12/26/04
BOXING DAY
Alright, this is what I was talking about ealier...YOU CRAZY CANADIANS! It was WAY worse than any after Thanksgiving Day sale I've been to. Basically, the larger stores weren't the problem. H&M was crazy with lines and people, but nothing I haven't seen before. It's the rest of the mall that was the problem.
You know those security gates that they pull to close the stores after hours? Well, most of the smaller stores would have small openings for people to file in and out, and some stores even checked your bags. It cause congestion all over the mall, and just made the chaos worse than it needed to be.
On top of everything, my Chargers LOST to the Colts 34-31, AND Payton Manning beat Dan Marino's most touchdowns in a season. If we had won, I wouldn't have cared. But we LOST. I guess it's ok because we have already secured a place in the playoffs. Tickets went on sale this week. I obviously didn't get any. Grrrr!
12/27/04
Going Home!
Ok, so yeah, we were SUPPOSED TO GO HOME, but because of a delay by America West that was unknown to the passengers, we were on the tarmack for just under 2 hours. We missed our connection into Las Vegas, and the earliest flight out at that point was on Wed 12/28! WHAT?! I called UNLV and whined to him about being stuck. He wasn't in town yet, but was coming home the next day. Our baggage went on to San Diego without us, or so I thought. They wouldn't reimburse us for a rental car.
So there we were, no baggage, no phone charger, no way to get home, and I had to miss work for 2 DAYS! We took our taxi to The Hampton Inn and decided to stay and rest.
12/28/04
We ate the free breakfast downstairs. UNLV flew in that morning and drove me and mom to Walmart so that we could get extra clothes and underwear. As a thank you, my mom treated him (and us) to lunch at Panda Inn. Las Vegas was FLOODED. It was pouring rain. We had heard that California was worse. We ended up eating dinner in our room, and UNLV couldn't join us because he was doing work that needed to be done before he came home for New Year's. Besides, a lot of roads were flooded and my mom didn't want him to drive.
12/29/04
Hotel computers were down so we didn't have to check out. We take a shuttle to the airport, and it's insanity. Lines were incredibly long. We were lucky to have gotten in line way early and we were able to be booked on a direct flight to San Diego instead of going by way of Pheonix.
We get to San Diego, and go to baggage claim for America West. Turns out, my mom's luggage is there, BUT MINE IS NOT! Holy SHIT what in the BLOODY hell is going on?!
I sat down and just cried out of sheer frustration. I called into work and told them that I just wasn't going in until Thursday. I called UNLV and whined again.
The thing that pisses me off is that both areas of baggage claim (Vegas and San Diego) had no idea what was going on. Both asked, "So why is it that you missed your flight?" Don't you have it in your bloody computer you idiots?! I missed my flight because you have an incompetent airline and I will NEVER fly America West EVER AGAIN! Not only we were delayed, but we had to PAY for our meals on board!
12/30/04
So today, I will go to the airport and find out if my luggage arrived. It was all over the news that baggage from the east coast was brought in today.
I will party my ASS off tomorrow. UNLV is coming tomorrow, and we're meeting a gal from work and her friends. Should be fun!
Happy New year if I don't get to get in another blog before then. I'm glad this year is DONE.
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