What Would Jen Do

Archive for March, 2009

we are currently in San Fran.   Before we left I decided that if upgrades to first class were under a certain dollar amount, then i’d upgrade us.  and what do you know, they were exactly that much.   Last time I tried that the extra price was $350 per ticket.    I doubt we’ll be that lucky on the way home.

Tonight we’re off to dinner with family and then tomorrow ALCATRAZ.  yes, again.

sometimes weekends feel long, and this time it’s not in the good way.    I feel kind of stressed out because i realized that it’s this coming weekend we are going out of town and i’m not at all prepared for it.  I still have a ton of things to do.   shopping, cleaning, getting the guest room ready, getting the doggy checklist written out.  I can probably do all of that in one day, and i’ve taken Friday off just for that reason.    I know that in the end everything will be fine and i’ll have a great time in San Fran, but i’m always stressed out about leaving my dogs!!!

Actually I think that i’m just always stressed out.    I am right on the edge of going to  a spa and getting a spa package with a massage, facial and pedicure.  and if you know me, you’ll know that is something i’m pretty intimidated by, but i think i need the stress physically taken out of me and lots of people swear by spa treatments.

my husband set me up with a fancy fast new to me laptop.  so now I have two and one is basically just for watching movies in the tub and taking on vacation.   it’s not like i’m spoiled or anything….   we are actually sitting basically side by side right now both typing away on our laptops.  i should probably instant message him instead of speaking to him out loud.

…i’m wearing pink.

today my Wii Fit told me I gained 4lbs in 4 days.   WAY TO GO ME!   Since i know that’s not possible because i didn’t eat a big mac and a half a day we’re going to chalk it up to a lot of other things………………

It’s slow going unlocking yoga stuff, i still can’t do the tree pose and have just given up for the time being.   I saw that our OnDemand channel has yoga and pilates and as it turns out, i can’t do real yoga at all.   like, AT ALL.   it says beginners but i’m pretty sure normal people do not move that way, ever.   I got thru ten minutes of a 20 minute pilates thing before she just went overboard and started doing all kinds of weird things my body can’t do.    I’m not sure how long that particular video will be available but i’m going to get thru all 20 minutes eventually.    so hopefully its around for a while.  it’s all about core strength, which i apparently do not have.   or at least i only have ten minutes of it.     just when i start thinking i might be in ok shape, i realize i’m not.

The wedding was great, if there were any major problems or snags I never found out about them.  And being MOH it would have been my job to find out and put out fires.  But as far as I know, everything went smoothly.   I wrote a speech but then only half followed it once up there.  unfortunately I agreed to go after the best man who gives speeches at work all the time and is well versed and used to it.    Afterwards people said I was funny and that I did a good job.  something i said KILLED, and i was really only expecting half chuckles from it.   But I told them they didn’t have to say that just because they like me.    Friends are always way too complimentary. 

And then we did something we hardly ever do.  we went out the NEXT NIGHT!!!!  We went to a friends house and had a coupley board game and dinner night.  i’m not ashamed to say I won whatever that first game was that we played. 

I swear to you I have not slept more than 6 hours a night for the past few weekends.   Which is fine, until you try to get up for work at 4:30 on a monday morning.  

This weekend my main plan is to spend time with my husband, alone and finally watch the SATC movie, (which he does not have to do) i’d like to thank ‘how i met your mother’ for spoiling it for me tho.

In a few hours I will be matron of honor in my friend Cat and Skrappy’s wedding.  Their engagement was so long that my title has changed three times since she first asked me to be in their wedding.  I was a bridesmaid, then i was maid of honor and then I got married so I became Matron of honor.  but that sounds so old!

Being in other people’s weddings makes me more nervous than my own.   I was not nervous at my own wedding at all because I didn’t have anyone to worry about disappointing.   I was very cool and didn’t have a single freak out moment.   But I always worry about being in other peoples weddings, especially this one because my job is a lot bigger than standing up there holding flowers.

I have to MAKE A SPEECH!!!!!

meh, whatever happens happens.  You can’t spend all your time worrying about things that haven’t even happened yet and may never happen at all.

I threw a bachelorette party over the weekend, I can’t tell you what happened, because it’s girl code.  But I can say there were juice boxes of wine, OE 40′s, a large bus, puking, lost shirts and large amounts of cash. oh and i told some bachelor who asked for marital advice that he should punch his wife in the face if she acted up.   as often as possible, because that’s how we do it at my house and i never act up anymore.  i think his friend took me seriously and feared for my life,  i’m sure he wanted to throw me an intervention on the spot.

i took my car in today to get the bumper repaired and the rental is a dodge charger.  it’s the biggest and most uncomfortable car i’ve ever driven and i’m terrified to drive it to work tomorrow on TWO freeways in the DARK.  there is no way i’m parking that monster in the parking garage at work.  it doesn’t even have a key it has some THING to insert into the key hole thingy.  everyone else was getting kia’s and i almost srsly asked the lady if i could have a kia instead.   except i was feeling really smug because there was this guy in there who was praying the charger was for him. sorry dude, you’re getting a tiny kia.  you’re supposed to get something comparable to what you already drive.   i would have preferred a wee kia.   i’m not sure what a charger is worth, but apparently it’s worth the same as my car.  at least i only have to drive this car to work one day.

We’re also off to san fran at the end of the month to see Icey’s grandma.   I hate san fran, but i do love airplane rides, Alcatraz and his grandma’s cooking.    I wonder if our rental will be a dodge charger!