a day in the life

Congratulations to my friends Amber and Syd Schramm who welcomed a baby boy, Cale Michael, to the world on Sunday. Can't wait to meet him!

When an airline says they aren't sure where your luggage is, they really mean it.

Saturday:

6pm luggage is picked up at 6pm and taken to customs
8:30pm customs is done checking the bags and says they are checked through, put them on the belt and they will go back to the plane

Sunday:
12am the flight lands in MSP
12:30am all of the bags have come out on the belt and ours are missing
12:45am the airline lady fills out paperwork and says, don't worry we'll find it, call back in the morning
9am a call to the airlines, they don't know where it is, call back after 3
3pm we haven't found it but have put out a bag "APB" call back tomorrow

Monday:
9am Um, your bag hasn't arrived from Amsterdam yet. WHAT??? I just had the bag yesterday in Florida...how could it get back to Amsterdam?

11am Okay, we have contacted the manager in Florida, he will track them down.

1pm The bags are stuck in customs, it could take a few days to get them released but the manager in Florida is working on that

3pm The airline calls and says the bags have arrived in MSP

As you can see by the timeline, they clearly had no idea where the bags were. The flight from Florida to MSP is more than 2 hours so there is no way they were in customs when we called at 1, they were actually on a flight to MSP and the airline had no idea.

The day after the guy on my bus hit me in the face with his hand, I saw him walking through the skyway talking to himself. Maybe he's a bit off.

Today I woke up in a not so good mood. Actually, I went to bed in a not so good mood and woke up in the same mood. So I'm a little bit ticked off at the world but am trying to be nice to people I encounter in my morning. I drive to the park and ride and get on the bus. When I sit down, the lady next to me is taking up 2/3's of the seat. I'm cool with that, I put in my headphones and start listening to music. While we are waiting for the bus to leave, the lady starts digging in her purse/bag. She pulls out some crap and elbows me for five minutes straight. Then she puts in some gum. On the way to Minneapolis she proceeds to clean out her bag and elbow me for 45 minutes. After the first 5 minutes, I'm highly annoyed. To top it all off, she is smacking her gum, so loud I can hear it over my iPod which is now turned up as loud as it will go. Pretty sure I've heard cows chew more quietly than she was. The bus finally gets to my stop and I manage to get off without ripping her face off, lucky day for her I guess.

As I'm walking to work, I was standing on the street corner waiting for the light to change. This guy, who happens to ride my bus, started walking across the road before the light said walk. That's totally normal, I do it all the time as do others. However, there was still a car coming and the light changed to walk before the car had cleared the intersection. SO the guy who rides my bus gives the car the finger. I thought to myself, wow, how rude. I continued walking to work, no big deal.

When it was time to come home, the bus was running late. When the bus runs late, it picks up more people who normally would have missed the bus. By the time I got on, it was full and I had to stand. Ironically, I was standing by the jerk that gave the driver the finger in the morning. I was a little bit irritated that he didn't offer me his seat, chivalry is not dead, right? So I'm standing there with my hands on the railing holding on as the bus takes off and slows for each stop. The guy decides to take off his coat and hits me smack in the middle of the face with his hand and sleeve of his coat. Doesn't say a word. So I'm standing standing standing patiently waiting to get home. The guy falls asleep and randomly grabs the pole I am holding on to, right where my hand is. Then he squeezes the pole and my hand and readjusts how he is sitting. Again, SAYS NOTHING. I wanted to kick him in the face...and the butt.

Now I'm on Facebook and this stupid rep I have keeps making stupid smart mouth posts about how a republican (allegedly) won the senate seat in Massachusetts. I'm annoyed.

So here's to better days with less annoyance :)

I had today off of work and Michael also worked from home. So far it's been pretty boring and lazy. I had intentions of washing my car, but since it's going to be nice all week, I'm postponing that. I've made two batches of chex mix :) I also called the airline to see what is going on with Michael's luggage. For the past day and a half he has gotten the run around. The last time he saw his bags he was in customs in Orlando. This morning when he called to see if Sun Country had located them, the lady said they hadn't arrived from Amsterdam yet. WOW, if that's the case he is in trouble. He explained that he knows they are in Florida because he had them in customs. Now the SC people think that customs has them and it can take a couple of days for them to release the bags. Hopefully that is the case as there is ALOT of stuff in them, probably upwards of $4,000 in two suit cases. The lady I spoke with told me it could take several days for customs to release the bags....so we wait. We have been playing Mario Bros on Wii to pass the time. We have been playing for about 2 hours and are only on world 1-3...Michael has been making lots of phone calls :)

It's been awhile so this is pretty much the run down of the past couple weeks of my life :)

The week of Christmas flew by. Tuesday I drove home to get groceries with my mom and sisters. Wednesday we baked ALL day long. Thursday we made food for Christmas Eve, went to church, came home with my grandparents and ate supper. Then we opened presents. Friday we got up and started cooking yet again, this time to go to my dad's side. Saturday was at my mom's side, and Sunday I drove back home. Busy, busy, busy as you can tell.

New Years was a bit different. Very low key, I worked 3 days and then had a 4 day weekend. Not much happened, lots of tv watching, nintendo playing (I got Super Mario Bros Wii for Christmas) and cleaning. I did venture out to the gym a couple of times and to make sure my car would start in the fridged weather we are having.

So now I'm back at work, on day 3 and I'm dying a slow death. It's so hard to get back in the swing of things, especially when it's still a little slow from the holidays.

Yesterday I was on the bus riding home and some people were talking about insurance for their cars. This guy commented that he doesn't have a current "proof of insurance" card in his car and that he gets sick of changing them every 6 months. The lady he was talking to scolded him and told him he could get a ticket for that. Well, well, well. I actually got pulled over driving the mini van with my parents for speeding. Now those of you who know me know I have a lead foot. However I wasn't speeding on purpose, it was a 50mph zone on the road we were on and I saw the sign right as I saw the cop in my rear view mirror. So we pull over and the cop comes up and sees we are all seat belted and asks for proof of insurance and a license. The POI card my mom gave me was outdated by over a year. He looked at it, said everything looks current and went back to his car to run my ID. So, moral of the story is that you only need a current POI card if the cop that pulls you over is competent. :)