Priceline... Victory!

I've never booked on Priceline before, mostly because I'm the type of person to *almost* book a plane ticket about four times before actually doing so, and only so that I can go back and forth to recheck the dates a dozen times. So, a hotel booking system where you pick a price and have no idea what you're getting unnerves me just a touch.

But after the holiday, Mom and I are heading down to Florida to find a place for B & I to live next year. We need to stay overnight and really didn't care where (within a certain region). Everything in the downtown area was about $150 - $189, or $89 on Hotwire (where you don't know the name of the hotel either). So I bit the bullet and bid on Priceline. At first I said $70 for a 3.5-star PLUS (the best there was in the city) downtown hotel, then decided to go for $60. And you know what, I got it! At a great hotel (or at least in a great location with great pictures).

Lesson learned? If you don't care exactly where you're staying (as opposed to wanting to stay near a wedding party or family members), then it seems like a great idea. I checked the hotel's rates on its site and, sure enough, it was $151.20 plus tax for the single night. I paid $60! I'm super proud.

Go forth, young travelers. Book and reap the rewards of nameless hotel bookings!

Anxiety Dreams...

Two more...

1) Someone kept taking our tiny shampoo and conditioner bottles and hiding them, forcing us to search for them before showers.

2) I was teamed up with Sam, from In Plain Sight, to fight crime, only he was really young and terrible.

Product Reviews

I honor of Georgia's "No Texting While Driving" rule, I decided to post my favorite Amazon.com product review.

This always makes me giggle.

It's a desktop that attaches to your steering wheel. While the product is serious (and intended for use, I'm sure, when the car is in park), the reviews (and the pictures!) are not:

"My copilot and I both used these during our "daily grind" transcontinental flights from San Diego to Minneapolis. We had to modify them a bit to fit snug against the instrument panels (when we bought them we didn't realize the planes we fly don't have steering wheels!), but in the end it did the job. With our laptops firmly in place we were able to focus our attention on what really mattered, participating in raids with our WoW clan. During our last flight we were so immersed in trying to take down Eranikus that we overshot Minneapolis by a full hour and a half before some annoying flight attendant interrupted us, babbling something about "FAA and F16 fighters."

We'll definitely use this product again at our next gig, whatever and whenever that happens to be...
Highly recommended! "

"Wow is this thing great! I use it as a "mini-bar" when the friends and I go out to the bars. I can quickly fix multiple shots of tequila for myself and the friends as we drive from one bar to the next. We also discovered that if you place a pillow on top of it and turn on the cruise control you can catch quick naps on the interstate. If you swerve to the left or right the rumble strips on the road wake you up in plenty of time before you get into trouble. I can now take longer trips without being tired! "

Why I Love B Today

I heard him laughing hysterically in the basement, so I went down to find him watching Tosh.0, the show about funny things found on the internet.

Turns out, he'd seen this clip of a girl getting sick on an airplane that (you guessed it) suddenly hits turbulence and drops rapidly, forcing that little sick baggie to almost invert into her poor face. Now that, friends, is a bad day.

Not for B, however! He laughed and laughed and laughed until he was legitimately at risk of needing a little baggie himself. Karma? Perhaps. But I love him so much!

(Ok, Ok, here it is. Be warned, it is NOT pretty.)

100% = Fail

I now think my Words docs are too small when viewed at 100%. I'm officially a 125% girl. Not sure how I feel about this!

Also, things I've worried about in my dreams as of late:

1) Having a baby that looks like a monster when it wants to eat.

2) If a Kindle would give me eye-strain.

3) How to undock a boat that's at risk of being trapped from rising flood waters.

It seems to me that I'm anxious? At least my dreams think so. But I'm not grinding my teeth (as is the norm for me), so I'm going with "all is well"!

Welcome to ATL, Joanna!

Maybe it's because I haven't had a lot of physical activities on my "to do" list, but today, for me, was an awesome day.

1) I got to help move my friend Joanna into her new apartment in ATL. And by "move" I mean that she had two strapping moving men to move everything, so all I did was unpack plates and drink sweet tea.

2) My old office called, wanting me to temp for six weeks during a content migration. I'll be making more per week than I ever did and I don't feel guilty saying when I'll be out of town, etc. Score!

3) Had a delicious dinner at a wonderful Mexican restaurant in town that specializes in margaritas.

Need I say more?

Happy Thursday to you!

Hello A, Meet Limit!

Me: When did you know I was hitting my limit today?

B: When you cursed at the potpie in the oven.

Me: It burned me!

B: I'm just saying. You cursed. At the potpie. And meant it.

Me: Ok, fair.