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Archive for April, 2008

Can you tell I’m still bitter?  Ha.  Actually, I was pretty much over it until I checked fares for other airlines and they are $700-1,200 PER PERSON.  Not that I’d purchase them now; I’m not a complete idiot.  But that pretty much can answer your question about why I chose to book so early in the first place.

Moving on… I talk to my best friend Lisa in Boston almost every day (is everyday one word in this case?)  for free.  Thank you very much, AT&T.  She’s getting her phD in clinical neuropsychology.  Needless to say, she’s absolutely brilliant.  Yesterday she told me that she texted herself twice to remind her to tell me something while we chatted.  When she tells me this, she realizes that she can’t read it because she’s talking to me!!!    Okay, maybe not her finest moment, but high-quality entertainment, I tell ya!

ATA, I am pretty ticked at you. We, for the first time ever, booked our flights to Hawaii for Christmas/New Years NINE MONTHS EARLY!!!!  And I booked five seats because the mochis are too big to sit on our laps!!!!!!  Your statement of contacting my credit card company for refunds does NOTHING as I used a debit card!!!    Not only do I have to file a claim where we may or may not get a full or partial refund, I have to book with another airlines and I know it’ll cost more.  We adopted the brilliant philosophy of not using credit cards because, “If you can’t afford it, don’t buy it until you can,” seemed like a good idea at the time.  Grrrr.

Not to mention mom and my nephew were coming up for a month this summer via ATA and now what?

On a lighter note, George Michael is back in concert.  Better yet, who would’ve thought that these guys would ever stage a comeback!

This morning, Big Mochi declares that she has to do some homework (from the workbook grandma got her).   She opens it randomly and we do some worksheets together (circling the taller item, circling the alphabet that the picture starts with, etc.) and then we come to the one that has a big blank square where she knows she’s supposed to draw a picture.   She asks, “What do the directions say, Mommy?”  and I reply, “Well, it says to write your name at the top and then draw a picture of you!” 

She sadly goes, “Oh.” 

“What’s wrong?”

“Well, I can write my name, but I don’t know how to draw me.”

“Sure you do!”

“What if I don’t know how to draw my tummy?”

Clearly, that’s a very important part of how she sees herself. 

Yet, take a look at the finished product!

I have been loading old cds that we own onto my new nano.  It’s been a lot of fun revisiting the songs we used to listen to, but at the same time, I listen to the lyrics of some of them and wonder what I could’ve been thinking.  I also was shocked to realize that I still know all the words to Air Supply’s greatest hits.  How’s that for embarrassing?  I also have something like 5 Phil Collins cds and 4 Yannis and way too many Hawaiian ones.  There are a bunch I should have but have no idea where there’ve gone.  One of these days my little mochis are going to get ahold of these songs and destroy my collection, for fear of their own reputation by association. 

4) Use the good stuff.  Bust out the fine China for macaroni and cheese by candlelight.  Wear sparkly shoes to Denny’s.   Have a picnic wearing a tiara.  The good stuff does no good stored away.