The same person at work who caused all the drama about having to move from an office with a window to an office without a window can be soo nice...yet soooooo annoying at the same time. She's a very intelligent person, however, none of us have any idea what she actually does all day other than make a ton of personal phone calls. We officially have her description down as 'special projects.' Haha.

Anyways, I sent out the flyer to advertise for our holiday party last week. The flyer says that lunch will be served and right below - asks you to RSVP.

So I'm following up with people today that I haven't heard from. She's one of them. So I'm in her now windowless office and she says: Oh, I didn't see anywhere where it told me I had to RSVP. OK, fine, you're an idiot, just tell me if you're a Y or a N. So she says she's coming, and then proceeds to tell me three more times that she didn't know she had to RSVP because she didn't see it anywhere. So I finally told her, very nicely, that it was on the invitation, and I just walked away.

SERIOUSLY? Yes or No. I don't care if you feel you need to claim ignorance or get the last word in. So irritating.

Christmas 2008 was my first Christmas at my current job. There isn't really a citywide holiday party or anything, each department does their own thing, oh, and there really isn't any budget, there's really, NO budget. Especially in my department. So our two managers got together to discuss the party planning and I got voted onto the committee. We did it in one of our big conference rooms and went with fun bright Dr. Suess colors and did a chocolate dessert fondue bar. I thought it was a huge success considering we had no budget. Basically the managers pay out of their own pockets, so we had to be really creative. Last year was a big challenging because the HR manager was very opinionated about what she didn't like, but didn't really offer too many suggestions. Overall, afterwards I had several people tell me it was pretty good. I think the need to get creative gave everyone something they hadn't had before.

After our last minute planning last year, we really stayed on top of it this year. We made our reservation in January to get the community center that we wanted and we formed our committee early and were strategically selective about who we chose. The committee met, and since our party is from 12-2, we agreed that we HAD to serve lunch. So our lead went back to our managers to tell them our concensus and get an idea of budget. Nobody got raises this year and our director has asked all of the managers and supervisors to be aware of everyone's feelings, etc, etc. Maybe that's why, but I was shocked to hear what our maximum budget is. Of course, we're trying to stay as low as possible, but their willingness to contribute what they are amazed me. Everyone should be happy too because they're getting a full meal this year and not just a dessert buffet.

So we've got the party pretty much outlined. I've created the electronic flyer, will keep track of the RSVP's, and volunteered to bake 50 snowflake shaped sugar cookies as the party favors. We all agreed that we're keeping it hush hush. Nobody gets any clues about ANYTHING, not even what type of food we are having. It should be fun. I've already had a few people ask me for details and the look on their faces when I won't share a thing is the best.

Well, to focus on the postive (since I took the complaining about the Target Pharmacy out on my FB page). Adam and I are thinking about a summer vacation to Hawaii!!! I know summer is waaaaaaaaaay far off, but we'd have to plan accordingly and save, save, save. Hawaii ain't cheap!

My sister is headed to the Big Island for a wedding at the end of July. She mentioned it a few weeks ago and asked if I wanted to go with her. I figured, yeah right, because I know airfare there is steep. But offhandedly I mentioned it to Adam and he really, seriously, liked the idea.

We've discussed a bit, I asked him the other day what the odds are, and he said 70/30 that we would go! If we are able to pull it off, it will be one heck of a vacation and an early 30th birthday present for him.

On to the boring details, since I inherited my dad's 'planning' genes. I'd want to go for at least 7 full days (if my sister goes for the same time as us, it'll lower the room cost). The non-stop flights from LAX to Kona are also the most expensive, so I may consider a night or two in Honolulu as we would have a layover there anyways. It all depends on the cost though. I've browsed a bit, but haven't seriously looked at putting together an estimate. The good thing is that there is a 5% discount in place with American and Hawaiian airlines for the wedding, so that would help a little, but I think we're still looking, at the very least, around $1,500 for both of us round trip. Then, by the time you add on hotel, car, activities, eek. But I'm hopeful! The thought of having a Hawaiian vacation to look forward to sounds really nice.

If my friend who has 4 kids all younger than 7 can find time to blog about her life and family...I've decided I have time to keep my LJ updated.

Thanksgiving weekend went by waaay too fast. Wednesday we had free tickets to the Ducks/Hurricanes game so I became a Canes fan for a night, but unfortunately, they lost. Can't pass up free tickets 6 rows from the glass though!

Thursday we slept in and headed to my parents around noon. Dinner was supposed to be around 4, but it took my aunt Peggy over THREE hours to drive up from San Diego. By the time we finally ate around 5 everybody was starving, but the food was delicious! Trader Joe's brined turkey rock. Leigh was smart and drove up the night before. Dwight and Christy also drove down from Malibu. Justin and Naomi were in charge of bringing 'the stranger' and some girl named Meghann crashed the feast. (Hehe, way to go Dad, you had to go and invite the infamous 'Brad' over to dinner in the summer, so now whenever someone new/strange is invited to dinner, they will always be referred to as 'the stranger' - behind their back of course). We spent a long time at my parents and didn't get home until after 11.

Friday Adam wanted to pick up a few games at Game Stop. I was surprised at how dead the Town Center was. There were only a few people in the store when we got there around 10:30. So then I had to go on a quest to use my coupons. Aaron Brothers sent home a 50% off coupon, so we picked up a Marvel Comic drawing book for Kenny . Then I just HAD to use my Michael's coupon. We scored big time there and came out with a ton of Christmas stuff for under $30. I went on another quest and put out all the Christmas decorations before we met up with Paul and Kelly for dinner. I can't believe she's due in a little more than 8 weeks!

Saturday Melanie came over and we went to Toys R Us to try to get some more of the nices/nephew shopping done. We also used a ton of Bed, Bath and Beyond coupons and did some more shopping there. I'm pretty impressed, other than buying a bunch of work pants online on Thursday for 40% off and free shipping, I kept the shopping strictly to Christmas. My boss couldn't go to the Kings/Hawks game last night, so she gave us her seats. We got to enjoy the Kings shootout win over Chicago, Go Kings!

Today we did some maintenance around the house and did some grocery shopping before heading to hockey. We played one of the better teams in our league and lost, but scored 4 goals, which is a big improvement over our last game.

I'm not looking forward to a 5-day work week, but am looking forward to all that December has to offer. In addition to the holiday's, holiday closure and 9/80 Friday's, I've also got 32 hours of personal leave I need to use before December 31st, so I'm going to have fun planning when to use that.

Dear Billie Joe, thank you for an amazing show last night!

Tuesday night was one of first's and last's. It was the first concert I've been to this year and the last show on Green Day's tour. Our destination was the Forum and after finding out my boss and another co-worker were both going, we had been psyching ourselves up the last few days.

Adam picked me up from work at 6. Being a Tuesday, the 405 was gloriously empty as we cruised from Irvine to Inglewood in just over thirty minutes. Add that to the list of first's! After stopping for some affordable dinner at Carl's, we made it to the Forum parking lot just after 7:30.

I've got to rant here. Ok, so the Forum has no more Lakers or Kings, must they make up their lost revenue by charging $22 bucks for parking?!?! Seriously.

I had purchased my tickets from the KROQ pre-sale and was thus required to pick them up at will call. I was a bit skeptical, but it seemed as if every ticket window was open and the line was moving. Took me less than 5 minutes to get my tickets, GA floor, another first for me, usually I prefer having a seat. :o)

Show time was 8 PM and Franz Ferdinand opened up just about on time. I have their first cd, but they weren't the reason why I was there, and while they put on a good show, I'm glad they only played for about 30 minutes. We had made it pretty close to the front of the stage for Franz Ferdinand and it was enjoyable, but I knew there was no way we'd stay that close for Green Day. I'm just too short to be that close and be able to see anything.

Just after 9PM Green Day took the stage and the next 3 hours flew by! The show was awesome, there's no other way to describe it. I was impressed when I saw them at Home Depot when American Idiot came out, but they totally played this show for the fans. It was a great experience to be on the floor too, such energy! There were different levels of "into it" because the crowd was very diverse age-wise, but I can say that every single person around me was just as captivated as I was.

There's no way for me to remember the entire set list, but according to one site, it was something like this:

1. 21st Century Breakdown
2. Know Your Enemy
3. East Jesus Nowhere
4. Holiday
5. The Static Age
6. Before the Lobotomy
7. Are We the Waiting
8. St. Jimmy
9. Boulevard Of Broken Dreams
10. 2000 Light Years Away
11. Hitchin' A Ride
12. Welcome To Paradise
13. Disappearing Boy
14. Tight Wad Hill
15. When I Come Around
16. Brain Stew
17. Jaded
18. Longview
19. Basket Case
20. She
21. King For A Day
22. Shout (The Isley Brothers cover)
23. 21 Guns
24. American Eulogy

Encore:
25. American Idiot
26. Jesus Of Suburbia
27. Minority

Encore 2:
28. Macy's Day Parade
29. Last Night On Earth
30. Good Riddance

Knowing that Green Day always ends with the same song, and knowing they had completed the first encore, we walked out to Macy's Day Parade (which I had fun singing all the way down the tunnel)! I got to listen to Last Night on Earth while I bought an overpriced, but awesome t-shirt (complete with skulls on it)! The original plan was to head out when Good Riddance started, but it was pretty late so I don't mind that we left a song early. By the time we got home it was after 1AM, but we were able to avoid massive traffic leaving the parking lot, and when you've got to be at work at 7:30 am the next morning, you can miss the last song of the show.

This morning was rough, I'm definitely not 21 anymore! Standing from 8-12 is a LONG time. Add on bouncing around, cheering, singing along, and your general concert going actions and yesterday proved to be quite exhausting. Managed to get into work only 15 minutes late (hehe, when my boss got in the first thing she said was: don't even tell me you were on time today!) and Adam picked me up a Grande Java Chip Frap to get me through the morning. It was a double dose of caffiene today because I nursed a Dr. Pepper in the afternoon to get me through until 5:30.


It was good times to recount our experiences at work this morning too. My boss and co-worker had just as great of a time as I did, I think the first thing we all said was that it was awesome.

Cameras weren't allowed yesterday, so Adam took a few pictures with his i-phone. I'm waiting for him to send them to me. Not that I'd have had the patience to take pictures last night, I was there to enjoy the show, and enjoy it I did. :o) One last thing though...


Dear Billie Joe: Please play a show in the OC next time!

Summer 2010 will be the official reunion, but those who want to come up in the off year's are welcome to and this is the first year we did! I've got a chance to update because Adam's passed out from today's activities of fishing, hiking, rowing, horseback riding,canoeing, and the grand finale pot luck dinner...but I'm getting ahead of myself.

Thursday morning we picked up the rental and headed to my parents. The goal was to be on the road by 9:30, and we left around 9:40, not too bad. We chose the route through Glendale, Lancaster, Palmdale, so it took us close to 2 hours to get outside of the "LA area." We had a few wrong turns, a lunch stop, and a 1-lane detour, but we made it up in about 6 hours, which is average. We were the last to arrive, so: Mary Ann, Bruce, Michael, Mary, Dwight, Christie, Cathy, Phil, Brandon, Hannah, Peggy, Johnny, Leigh, Connie, and David were already here. Thursday was unpacking, huffing and puffing due to the 8,000 foot altitude change, and pot luck dinner.

Friday was an early start. We did the 4-hour mountain bike pass and got in 2 runs this year. We had several spills, and all of us have bumps and bruises, but no serious injuries. I ate it at the beginning of the second run and have all these round red bumps on my left elbow from where all the gravel embedded into me. After the biking we had some lunch and wandered down to the resort shops and outlets, not too much good stuff, most of the shops have closed, but I got a super cute scarf at Coach for TEN BUCKS! We also had pot luck dinner again and all the 'kids' headed off to see Transformers 2. It's been so long since I was in such an old theater, but the sound quality was pretty good, and I enjoyed the movie.

Saturday we slept in a bit while Adam fished (no luck there, some nibbles, but not much more). We went for an easy hike up to Panorama Dome, regrouped for some sandwiches, and Melanie, Leigh and Adam and I went out on a row boat! We only rented it for an hour, but it was a ton of fun. Melanie and I rowed while the boys attempted to fish. Haha, we are such big city kids, but still, a fun experience. After that we headed out to go horseback riding. We did a two hour ride this time and it took us to Lake Mary, Lake Maime, Lake George, and Horseshoe Lake. My horse was named Flicka, Adam's horse was named Pepper and was HUGE! At the very end we cross a road and he was higher up than the roof of the Jeep Cheroke that got stuck waiting for us to pass! The names are fun, we also had: Vegas, Judge, and Handy. When we got back I felt covered in dust, so I cleaned up, and Adam and my dad went out on a canoe. They did the stuff I was too chicken to do on the row boat because I thought we wouldn't fit under these two bridges. They crossed into both twin lakes and went over by the waterfall. So, since Adam's been in the sun ALL day, he's exhausted and getting some sleep to be ready to drive us home tomorrow.

We finished off the Wheeler Gathering with a big pot luck and games before we all said our farewells and I think most people are getting an early start home tomorrow. I'm not sure when we're leaving though. We are waiting for my parents to get back from urgent care. My dad's been afflicted by sinus issues and a cold all weekend, and when he returned from canoeing, his eyes were bright red. Eyedrops haven't helped, and he wore sunglasses all night because they look so bad. Apparently they're all gunky too, so we think it's pink eye, but he can't get his contacts in, so someone else will have to drive home. It looks awful, so we convinced him to get it checked out tonight, he'll just be miserable if he waits to do it on Monday.

Tomorrow will be a long day, a six hour drive home followed by a 10:30 hockey game. We've got to return the rental on Monday and they don't open until 7:30, so the plus to that is sleeping in a little later than usual. It's also a short work week due to the holiday, so I'll have to keep that in mind when I'm down on energy back at work.

finally got me the things I needed for Father's Day. Seriously, why does my dad have to have a hobby that's practically illegal in the state of California?!?! Why can't he be into golf, or fishing? But guns?! Oye. We finally tracked down some of what he wanted, but it's insanely expensive.

Is it illegal to buy the stuff the next time I'm in Vegas and carry it back across state lines?

Lunch yesterday was full of drama! Adam picked me up and we ran an errand and picked up some Taco Bell. We were gonna eat it in the car so we drove back to my work and parked in the back of the lot, put down the windows and ate our lunch. About halfway through lunch a Ford Focus drives up, backs into a spot across from us, and puts all his windows down. We figure he's eating lunch like us because it was a nice day and there was a good breeze. Then all of the sudden the guy peels out and a lawnmower comes flying out of his trunk!!!

So the landscape maintenace guys were working and since it was almost 1 o'clock, they must have all gone to lunch. But...they left their equipment out. So there were blowers, weedwhackers and a lawnmower out. The guy in the Focus tried to steal the lawnmower! I guess a City truck had turned and started to come down the aisle, the guy saw that, freaked, and drove away, but the lawnmower didn't fit in his trunk so it flew out.

The guy in the City truck couldn't believe what he saw! We waited for about 10 minutes and the landscapers came back, so I told the guy what happened and he couldn't believe it either!!! He looked around and said that everything was there, so we didn't go report it to the police.

Imagine that though, they were in the parking lot of City Hall and the police station is RIGHT THERE! And it was broad daylight.

I just used a gift card and downloaded some random new music from i-tunes:

1. Lucky - Jason Mraz
2. Hot n Cold - Katy Perry
3. I kissed a girl - Katy Perry
4. Love Story - Taylor Swift
5. Single Ladies - Beyonce
6. Gone Daddy Gone - Gnarls Barkley
7. So What - Pink
8. We Made You - Eminem
9. Keeps Gettin Better - Christina Aguilera
10. Candy Man - Christina Aguilera
11. This is L.A. - The Briggs
12. Better Together - Jack Johnson
13. Over the Rainbow - Israel Kamakawiwo'ole

Time to update the i-pod! I've also got new Black Eyed Peas to put on. Tuesday - cardio, here I come!

I had a doctors appointment today and when I went to update my contact information, it was the first time I had to write "30" for age! Anyways, the appointment was because my left breast has been sore, so I wanted my doc to check it out, and he comes in looking at my chart and says, "You're pregnant!" Haha. That's NOT what it is, but that was pretty darn funny (and the first time that someone's said that since we've been married).

Arg! Stupid swine flu. This has to hit the news just a few days before my Mexico trip?! Blah. And, to top it all off, I'm sick with a cold. So now, even tho the part of Mexico I'm going to hasn't been hit - if I even cough or sniffle people will think I'm infected! This sucks. Adam's taking care of me tonight. We skipped the gym, I just took some cold medicine, and I've got OJ and strict instructions to rest all night (aside from working on my laundry so I'll have clean clothes for the trip).

Melanie O called me today and she actually called the CDC because one of the girl's parents were worried that they'd close the border, and they said they weren't going to do that. And the girl who's time share we're going to called the resort and they said that there haven't been any reported cases. I told her that today we're good, but who knows what tomorrow will bring up. She and half our group leave tomorrow, the rest of us head out there on Wednesday.

Work conversations are mixed. Some say don't go, others say I'll be fine because I'm in a big resort, in a tourist city, and not in Mexico City where all the trouble's been.

Oh, and on top of worrying about this, there was an EARTHQUAKE in Mexico today too. Sheesh!!!

I love the peeps who deliver the mail at my work. They are the sweetest and they try really hard to do a good job. My work does a work exchange sort of thing so all of our mail delivery people are 'special.' They go around 3 times a day in a group of about 5 with their supervisor and distribute and pick up all the mail from the various departments. Many of the more disabled ones, say with downs, have practiced their 'social scenarios' and don't really converse with you more than a good morning or a how are you. But the afternoon guys aren't as severe, so they'll maybe chat with you a bit more. After I got married they got really confused when they had to deliver a signature receipt package to me because people were still using my maiden name, so they couldn't figure out where the package went. So now, whenever I have to sign for something, the guy I'm talking about below, will say to me and his mail crew, "her name changed because she got married." Every time.

So this afternoon we had some cake and pie to celebrate that my boss is now a CPA. So the guy comes with our stack of mail and sees us celebrating:

Mail Guy: Oh, a celebration. What are you celebrating? A birthday? (as he's eyeballing the gigantic 10 pound chocolate cake we picked up from Costco)
Me: We are celebrating Donna. She's a CPA.
MG: *confused look* I don't know. What's that?
Me: Certified Public Accountant.

I knew he'd have no idea, but he asked, so I told him. He pretty much reacted like he didn't hear me. And then, as he's walking away he says:

"She got a promotion."

HAHAHA!!!!!

Dad's birthday is on Friday, Mom's is on Saturday. Since they're the day after each other, they're both getting a nice leather album of wedding pictures and I've printed and am going to frame the cutest 8x10 picture of them from the wedding. While I was out at Aaron Brothers, I wandered into Pier One and saw some perfect throw pillows for my mom, so she's getting some new pillows for the living room couches. But...I have no idea what else to do for my dad. He's sooooo difficult to shop for. Adam went to the shooting range with him last weekend and suggested some rifle ammo, but I have no idea what kind and Adam's down in SD for the weekend. I thought about a book, but just ended up wandering around Barnes and Noble and buying some magazines for myself. Now I'm thinking, maybe the John Adam's HBO series...is that on DVD? But I think my mom liked it more than my dad did. Hmm...

So I was talking to one of the finance administrators today and we were talking about how, before we started there, we both worked for a non-profit. She asked me if my co-workers there were more lively than the people we work with now. Apparently, she said that finance people tend to be squares.

Hmm...this made me wonder. Yeah, first impresion, finance peoples and accountants wouldn't seem to be the most interesting batch of people. So maybe she just doesn't know them that well? I mean, for sure, some people are more interesting than others, and some are harder to get to know. But out of our entire finance group, I'd only consider a few to be squares, and that's out of over twenty people. On the contrary, most are just as quirky as me, which is probably why their fun to work with. I mean, even the most serious guy on our floor, when Cheryl couldn't get her gatorade botttle open, and I couldn't either, when we asked his help and he got the lid off on the first try, he was joking with us and flexing and pretending to be all buff. So yeah, not squares. Unless I'm misinterpreting what a square is.

Ohwell, either way, my coworkers are fun. I'm even trying to convince a bunch of them to dress up like one guy in our department next halloween.

Ugh!!! I totally got used to the holiday closure and I'm so not looking forward to going back to the daily work grind. I like my job, I have a great group of co-workers, and an awesome boss, but I think I like staying home and all that much better! LOL. I'm sure eventually I'd get tired of it, but I think another week off would be nice.

With the time off we:

-did Christmas Eve at my parents
-did our first married couple hristmas morning together
-did Vegas for Christmas dinner with his family (and upgraded our seats to first class for the flight in)
-got to spend time with our nieces and nephew
-spent New Year's Eve with my family (dinner at Lucille's, checked out First Night in downtown Fullerton, and played Bunco)

On my to-do list:
-went to Social Security to change my last name
-went to the DMV to change my drivers license
-did a ton of dry cleaning (not difficult, but something I always put off)
-organized my filing system for our bills in 2009
-put away the Christmas decorations
-we cleaned up the garage and now have a large keep pile and a trash pile
-we cleaned out the attic
-found an awesome pair of jeans, they are super dark, come in a short inseam, and they're not soo low I'd avoid waring them to work
-skated on the Staples Center ice pre-game to the Kings vs. Flyers yesterday
-scored two goals on Staples Center ice AND sat on the Kings bench
-watched the Kings beat the Flyers in a shootout
-went for another laser hair treatment
-picked up DVD's to finally burn people copies of wedding pictures
-finally bought a damn mouse pad
-saw Melanie O before she left for Kansas and looked up flights to go to Puerto Vallarta in March

Hmm...I think that's it.

I really hoped we would sit down and pick the pictures for our wedding album, but we haven't done that yet. We don't have hockey this coming weekend, so maybe then.

The other big thing I wanted to do was get to Ikea and get a bookshelf for our office so we could finally finish set up. Adam says we can do that this weekend. This is dependent on seeing if my brother or Paul can help us, the packaging and shelf itself are too wide to fit in Tiggy.

Once I get my new social security card and drivers license we can go set up a joint account, which should make bill paying a heck of a lot easier.

Now if only I could get to sleep for work tomorrow...I really hate having late hockey games.

45 minutes at Social Security yesterday to get my name changed on my SS card.

2 hours at the DMV today to get it changed on my drivers license.

UGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What a pain in the ass.

Woohooooooooo!!! We are on holiday closure. It was so nice, yesterday evening at 5, to set my voicemail and email to say: closed from 12/24 to 1/04! I'm going to certainly enjoy the time off. My boss is supposed to have my 6 month review done when we return too, and she said I'd be getting retro pay. Yay! Speaking of - the worlds coolest boss got me an awesome Christmas gift. :o) A Kings hoodie and a pair of Kings earrings. Man, if I look back to my work related Christmas experiences at LA Fitness - god, I was miserable. My brother's STILL there and he said my old co-worker suggested a secret santa, and my old boss said she 'wasn't in the mood' so the whole department couldn't do anything. What a grinch! She also suggested to my old boss that they do a little something for her key regional people (just six of them) and she couldn't even bring herself to go out and get them a $20 gift card to like Starbucks. Sheesh. I suppose the only bonus to working at LA Fitness was the lovely catalog that you got to pick out your Christmas bonus? LOL! Riiiiiiiiight.

So I did my usual holiday bake and coookies for all of my coworkers a few weeks ago, and I don't know if they then feel obligated to get me something in return, or if they truly do feel like getting their goold ole secretary something. But when I got in on Monday, my desk was covered with cards and goodies. My favorite were the cards. I actually got one that said, thank you for ordering the kleenex! LMAO. I think it's because about a month ago I sent an email out to remind people to let me know when they use the last of a supply so that I can restock, and I started out by saying: imagine if you had one of those nasty winter colds, and you needed a box of kleenex for your runny nose - but we were all out...so I think that's what her reference was to. But the cards were cute. They must know me well too, because I got all gift cards I would use (Trader Joe's, Bath & Body Works, and a TON of chocolate). It was a nice holiday build up, with some great co-workers. I can honestly say that I love my job. Wow, I never thought I'd be saying that!

OMG OMG OMG!!!! Got a call from someone at work today, the only information I had was along the lines of: 5 extra VIP tickets to tonight's Kings/Sharks game. I was SO in. Adam and I had plans, but I text him and gave him the scoop and he said we could go. LOL - racquetball at the gym or a free Kings game, that's a no brainer for me. So since we found out about the tickets close to 4PM today, we had to go to will call to pick them up. Oh and the drive to Staples was amazing, no traffic at all, has the world stopped spinning? Anyways, we figured since the tickets were free we'd splurge on the $20 lot that's right across the street from Staples.

The only instructions I had were to go to the VIP will call window on the far left. So we're walking up and the sign above that window reads: VIP & Luxury Suite Will Call. OMGGGGGGGGG, I'm thinking, okie dokie, well VIP could be the premiere seats. So we get our tickets and I'm like WTF is B-44? So we figure, well we were told their VIP tickets, so we go to the VIP entrance, and we're told to take the escalator up and then the elevator up a floor. I'm trying to act all cool, but I wanted to be like - TELL ME, IS THIS A BOX??? LOL. So we get to the elevator and the doors open and Nick Nickson is in the elevator! He's the Kings radio play-by-play guy. He's so tall in person. Haha, Jim Fox is smaller than you would think and Nick Nickson is bigger.

So the elevator doors open and we're on a floor of suites!!!!!! We were so lost, obviously, I've never been on that level, how would I know my way around. So we get directions and I'm still in shock at my luck. We get to our suite, open the door, and it was like I died and went to heaven!

It was an Edison suite, they gave the City 6 seats in there. I think only Adam and I and one guy from the GP took them up on their offer. It was sick. There was a full food spread: chicken and turkey sandwiches, 2 kinds of salad, chinese chicken and fried rice, ribs and corn bread, and asian chicken salad. There was also a full spread of drinks: soda, beer, hard liquor as well as munchies. And get this - there's a dessert cart that comes around!!!

The end of it all was that we ate until we were stuffed, I had a gigantor slice of red velvet cake, Adam had a planet sized caramel apple covered in peanuts, he had two beers, and we sat in a luxury box for TWENTY BUCKS!!!!

I seriously died tonight. It was aweseome, I was in heaven!!!! If I ever win the lotto I am so doing a private suite. After getting beer dumped on me at the last game, I want to sit with friends and family, forget idiotic bozos. So yeah, if I ever win the lotto or discover a money tree. Ring, ring, Staples Center, Melinda would like to buy her own luxury box!

Ahh, and the game, well, the Kings earned a point. They lost in a shootout to San Jose, but let's face it, SJ is kicking major ass right now. And the Kings played great in the first, but didn't look so hot in the second and third. I'll take the point. :o)

I tend to get caught up in my own mental 'To do' lists. Adam tells me I'm a busy bee, or that I'm being productive, but really, I'm just checking things off my mental list of things to get done. Yesterday I got my hair did (hehe), we finally finished putting out the Christmas decorations (and I organized all our boxes and labeled them, so we're good to go next year. We also watched the Kings game and I started doing some of the linen laundry that was sitting on the landing from when his family was here for the wedding! Eeek, I can't believe I just admited that I let it sit there for so long. I also went through the mail and got all our bills ready to be paid this week. OH, and we picked up our Christmas cards from Costco.

I wanted to actually clean the house today, now that it's not a disaster zone of Christmas decoration boxes, but I've hit a wall. I just want to be lazy. I even started to work on the Christmas cards - but only got as far as the return address on an envelope.

*sigh*

We're headed to my parents house for dinner at 4...maybe I'll find the motivation somewhere to at least paint my nails or something, haha.