.:: Monday, April 30, 2007 ::.

saturday night after the game, we took our time leaving the stadium and walking back to the car. we took the durango, and i'm glad we did, cuz while we waited for the cars to clear out of the parking lot, we sat in the backseat and watched a dvd! hahaha...we watched about 15 minutes about the honda NSX-R. it was kinda fun. :)

J sent me this website...haha, hilarious!! i love hello kitty, but some of this stuff is just weird. a banana cover? and i'm sorry, but a hello kitty tat is going a bit too far...but hey, to each her own, right?

5 days to go...

:: joyce 7:57 PM [+]::
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.:: Sunday, April 29, 2007 ::.

going to an NBA playoff game is quite an experience! the noise level is 100x that of a normal game, throughout the entire game. the energy at the pepsi center was so exciting...it's just unfortunate the nuggets lost. it was a good game tho. W decided to bring his camera and got some pretty good shots.

:: joyce 4:20 PM [+]::
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.:: Saturday, April 28, 2007 ::.

after a freak snow storm Monday, where some parts of the metro area got almost a foot of snow, today we're enjoying mid 70 degree weather...it's just gorgeous outside!! tomorrow is supposed to be mid 80's. holy sh*t!

i know i've said this before, but i never truly appreciated spring til we moved to denver. you go thru a cold, brown, dead winter, and as it slowly starts to warm up, the flowers bloom, the trees blossom, it's beautiful!! i love springtime! so far the weather should be nice all week, which i'm looking forward to. and in just one week, we'll be off to europe! i can't believe it's here already!!! and when we get back, our trees and flowers will be in full bloom!

:: joyce 2:08 PM [+]::
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.:: Friday, April 20, 2007 ::.

it's been a long time since i've had to pay more than $3/gallon for gas. and we're talking 91 octane. i paid $3.01 today. sucks.

and it's also been a long time since i've been sick. at least 2 years. probably more. and i don't even know if it's a cold or just allergies. aside from chest congestion, coughing, and now a few sniffles, i feel fine. i sound much worse than i actually feel. but i hope this goes away, cuz it's really annoying to cough so much your stomach muscles feel like you've just done 500 crunches.

:: joyce 5:48 PM [+]::
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.:: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 ::.

great news...southwest is flying nonstop from denver to oakland for just $160 roundtrip starting in june! woohoo!!

and greater news...W got tickets to the first nuggets home playoff game (while i was going thru my ordeal at SFO on saturday). yea!!!!

now we just have to figure out which concert to go to at red rocks this summer.

:: joyce 7:36 PM [+]::
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.:: Sunday, April 15, 2007 ::.

this is how my saturday was supposed to go:
3:00am - wake up and head out to airport
6:00am - leave denver enroute to san francisco
7:35am - arrive at SFO and kill 2.5 hours to make connecting flight to san luis obispo
11:15am - arrive in SLO and meet up with friends to have lunch at splash cafe (world famous clam chowder in a bread bowl!!)
4:00pm - go to S & C's wedding at avila beach golf resort

instead, this is how my saturday actually went down:
3:00am - woke up and headed to airport
6:00am - left denver enroute to san francisco
7:35am - arrived in SFO and killed some time waiting for my connecting flight to san luis obispo
9:00am - united announcement that gate has changed
9:15am - 2nd united announcement that flight is delayed and gate has changed again
11:00am - found out my plane has left...at another gate. and i am still in san francisco.
11:16am - walk back to original gate to find out what the hell is going on
11:17am - me: "why did my plane just leave without me?" united guy: "uh, did you check in at the gate?" me: "no, i have my boarding pass already, and you told me to go to that other gate." united guy: "did they make an announcement?" me: "no, that's why i'm still standing here and not on my plane." united guy: "hmmm...." united girl: "they've been changing gates all day." me (thinking to myself): "okay...and that helps me how?" 3 united agents frantically searching for other ways to get me to SLO...find new route and print out new boarding passes. yes, passes. find out i'll be landing in SLO at 4:30pm...30 minutes after the wedding starts. lovely.
12:30pm - on flight to LAX. yes, i'm now flying to los angeles!!!!!
1:45pm - waiting for connecting flight to SLO
1:50pm - look at departures...flight is delayed due to weather. what weather?!?! flight now leaving at 4:30. (remember, wedding starts at 4:00!!)
5:30pm - finally make it into SLO airport and make my way to the avis counter to pick up my rental car. avis counter closes at 5:00pm.
5:31pm - thankfully i met nice, young gentleman (cal poly student) at SFO who was on my same ordeal with me and was able to give me ride to the wedding.
6:00pm - finally made it to S & C's wedding reception, just in time to see them make their grand entrance as mr. & mrs. sat down with friends and told them my horrible ordeal...everyone sympathetic but happy i made it. drank some champagne. enjoyed the rest of the night laughing, talking, catching up, meeting new babies, dancing away.
12:15am - in bed, exhausted.

and here is my sunday:
7:30am - woke up, showered, got ready to go
9:45am - everyone drove over to coffee bean (for my sake...all i wanted was my large english breakfast tea latte...i deserved it after all i went thru!!!). drank my delicious beverage...pure bliss.
10:15am - headed out to SLO airport (huge thanks to A who gave me a ride, since i had no rental car)
11:30am - flew from SLO to SFO
12:45pm - picked up by S, M & J to have lunch during my 2.5 hour lay over (thanks again girls!!! it was sooooo great hanging out, just like old times!).
1:00pm - millbrae pancake house...yum! ate eggs benedict...YUM.
2:15pm - headed back to SFO to make my last flight of the weekend back home to denver
3:30pm - finally on my way home.
7:45pm - arrive at denver, picked up by W, on our way to dinner at hickory house for some bbq ribs!
9:15pm - home sweet home...

so my weekend didn't go quite as planned...and i was furious at first when i found out what happened to my flight. especially since this was a short trip to begin with. but you know, there was no sense in getting angry. the united ppl at SFO sucked a$$ tho, and i will definitely be writing a *nice* little letter to united, detailing my *wonderful* ordeal on saturday. but i had a great time at the wedding and hanging out with my friends, some of whom i haven't seen in years. it was nice to be by the ocean again (altho my hair was freaking out from the humidity). the flight from LAX to SLO was actually kinda nice, flying along the coast. great views to be seen. the flight from SLO to SFO was just as beautiful. i really missed the ocean! avila beach (where the wedding was, and where i lived my super senior year in college) has had a complete makeover and is VERY different (in a very good way). i would love to go back and actually spend some time there. but i gotta say...i really am not looking forward to my next flying experience...which is just a short 3 weeks away!!! can't i just be teleported?!

:: joyce 9:42 PM [+]::
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.:: Friday, April 13, 2007 ::.

things i am looking forward to this weekend:
1. the reason for this trip, to see S & C finally get married! sheesh!
2. seeing college friends/sorority sisters i haven't seen in a long time
3. seeing the ocean! (yea for beach weddings!)
4. english breakfast tea latte from the coffee bean & tea leaf...yum!

not looking forward to:
1-4. getting up at 3am to make my 6am flight. *dread*

and in case you were wondering...the weather ppl were wrong again. seriously, i should become a meteorologist, cuz i'm sure i'd do just as good a job! we were supposed to get 4-8" overnight, and another 4-8" today. well, we got nothing overnight (totally dry this morning) and a few sprinkles of something that didn't look much like snow. and now i believe the sun is coming out! but not to worry...another "big storm system" will be heading our way by monday. hmph. whatever.

:: joyce 5:00 PM [+]::
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.:: Thursday, April 12, 2007 ::.

okay, why is there a WINTER STORM coming thru colorado when it's SPRING?! my coworker reminded me that this is spring in the rockies, so you can pretty much expect just about anything. *sigh* i just really hope my flight on saturday early early AM doesn't get affected...cuz that will SUCK. and our track weekend was cancelled, which i'm actually happy about cuz i didn't like the idea of W having to drive thru a blizzard pulling a trailer. scary! so now i also don't have to feel bad about missing a track weekend! but now they're talking of rescheduling for memorial day weekend, which really sucks cuz that saturday the rapids are playing the LA galaxy and i really wanted to go to that game (since we have a track event on the other weekend in august they'll be playing). grrr... i will make it to a rapids game this summer, i will!!

and i can finally stop stressing about my new passport cuz it finally arrived today! i was getting a bit nervous there... so for any of you married girls who changed your last names, i would highly suggest getting your passport fixed ASAP so you don't have to stress out 3 weeks before you leave for a major trip!! they originally said it would take 6-8 weeks, and having sent in my app at the end of january, i assumed i'd be fine. well, when i checked my status a couple weeks ago, it said it would take up to 10 weeks! yikes! and you need a certified copy of your marriage license, which you need to get from the county recorder's office. you should be able to do this online, but it's not free. :( i think i spent almost $100 to get my new passport...sh*t.

:: joyce 5:13 PM [+]::
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.:: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 ::.

greeeeeaaaat news on the work front! my manager told me that they're gonna make me a processor!!! woohoo! technically they're not supposed to promote me til i've been in my current position for a year, and it's been just about 6 months. but she fought and fought for me til our director agreed!! so the biggest hurdle now is trying to find my replacement. but i told her i didn't want to start til after our trip, so i have til june. hopefully we can find someone soon! i'm so excited!!

speaking of trips...it's coming up really soon!! holy sh*t!!!

:: joyce 5:35 PM [+]::
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.:: Thursday, April 05, 2007 ::.

for W's birthday yesterday, we went to the nuggets/kings game. we got great seats in the 8th row, at the corner of the court. great view of the players! we decided to take the new lightrail to the pepsi center cuz it drops you off right next to it. unfortunately we missed the return train by literally 10 seconds, so we had to wait half an hour for the next train! we didn't get home til midnight...yeah, i was dragging a bit today!

:: joyce 7:06 PM [+]::
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.:: Monday, April 02, 2007 ::.

my coworker K is watching our coworker D's beautiful samoyed (actually her boyfriend's, who adopted her from the shelter that K volunteers at). so K took her dog bentley (a border collie with social anxiety) and D's boyfriend's samoyed somara (who's a total snob, but still the most gorgeous dog ever) for a walk, and i came along! we also invited our boss D who brought her very social/ADD shih-tzu frankie. so the 6 of us took a nice walk thru the bluffs regional park by our house. i don't need a dog, i just need someone else's that i can take on walks! hahaha...i guess i could become a dog walker!

:: joyce 7:16 PM [+]::
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.:: Sunday, April 01, 2007 ::.

i let W get a new zoom lens for his camera...


...so yesterday we did a little photo shoot of my new and improved car. here are a couple of our favorites:


with the zoom lens, it looks like i'm driving super fast, but really, i'm only going about 15-25 mph. :) W wanted to practice taking pictures of a moving car. i don't know if it'll help for our trip to europe, since the F1 cars and WRC cars are going much faster than 15-25 mph! we might just get a lot of scenic shots...hahaha...

:: joyce 10:26 PM [+]::
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