Update: I need help

I need something good for the license plates… A car like this deserves something better than NCQ 682, ya know?

Thoughts?

Road Trip

Ladies and Gentlemen - I bought a MINI.  I bought it on Ebay.  I love it.  I wish I knew how to post pics.  I may have to send some to Katie and have her post them.  I flew out to Orange County on Wed.  Picked up the car from Strange British Guy (he reluctantly gave it over).  Got caught in LA traffic for THREE HOURS heading north on the 405 to see my pals.  Headed to LAX to pick up the little bro.  Love that guy.

So we took off really early to head to Albuquerque (SP? I hate that word)….  To see the Grandmother.  I haven't seen her in 8 years.  She is bitter.  We surprised her.  She loved it.  I'll spare you all of the details of my family… some of you may know them.  The lived down the block from the guy who wrote that cartoon.  The white trash one with the girl with the big yellow hair.  I can't think of the name of it.  Yea, they inspired a few of the characters.  Swear to you.  I only watch it when I miss my grandfather.  (I just called my older brother… King of the Hill)

Really it is a whole separate post in itself.  It may deserve a whole separate blog.  If I could get a whole separate internet dedicated just to my extended family, I would. 

Much driving but my MINI is home.  Now I just need to pray that someone wants to buy my Jeep soon.

A few blogs I'm enjoying these days:

http://sheajanelle.typepad.com/
This girl is so funny.  Go check out the pic of her Halloween costume.

http://www.youngna.com/
Love this girl.  She just is so in the mix in NYC.  It makes me so jealous.  But she always has great book, movie, music recommendations.

Oh geez, not to mention her photog skills.  Katie - I think you will like her style.

Happy Halloween!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 
Y Feliz Dia De Muerto!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Out again. Boring post.

I find myself in God's country again.  So nice to see the mountains.  I hate being out here though from a work perspective, I feel like I'm missing all the action.  What action?  I'm not sure.  My boss is on vacation and everyone tells me the office is quiet but I can't help compulsively checking my email in case someone remembers me and wants to tell me a good story.

So the plan to make the trip more tolerable, to head south one hour and have dinner in Cherry Creek.  Ahhh.  Cherry Creek.  A coffee at the Tattered Cover.  With my favorite aunt and uncle.  Sorry, K - you know I wish you were here!

So the weekend - I rearranged my apartment.  My best friend is in town from Colorado (yea, I'm here and she's there and that sucks), so she came in and put all of the finishing touches on the place.  Its finally starting to feel like home.  It has taken months to settle in.  Katie tried to get the process started and then I gave up for awhile.  But we're getting there.  My poor little dog wakes up in the middle of the night and gets all sorts of confused.  She hates when there is a piece of paper in the wrong spot, so she is going completely nuts that all of the furniture is in a different spot. 

I say so a lot.  So, what I want to know from everyone else today is how often you rearrange your furniture?  Are you all the types that get it just perfect and it stays there forever?  Katie - no need to answer this.  I know I would need to ask you how many times today you have rearranged your furniture...

Do you ever look back over a few days and just think "What the f?"…  I'll spare you the details, but my weekend was a little crazy.

On a lighter note, my little brother is trying to set me up on a blind date.  He even used the words "blind date".  Seems a little bizarre to me.  It's always interesting to see who people would put you with…  I had a hand-me-down blind date a few months ago from a good friend.  A Greek lawyer.  I like Greeks and believe it or not, I actually like lawyers.  After the date, which was not awful as far as lunch goes just awful for a date… my dear friend says "oh, yea. Forgot to tell you that he is short.  I meant to tell you not to wear heals."  Ok - So I should start dressing for a guy before we are even going out!?!?!?  Give me a break.

Speaking of lawyers… so this meeting on Friday in LA.  It went well to some degree.  They have a lawyer on their side from Chicago.  He played the bad cop in the last meeting.  And this time he tried to be sensitive.  I think I would not like the guy except that he has amazing blue eyes.  Seriously.  The guys who went with me would fire me for saying that… they hate him. But wow!  Then the guy goes and ruins it by being so, so… something.  I don't know what.  He just kept saying "Well, I can be in touch with you next week, we'll have to coordinate time zones.  I'll be in London."…. "I have many clients in London."…  "Feel free to send me an email, I'll get it even though I'll be in London."  We get it.  You in London.  You're cool.

And by the way, I may just be a dumb girl in finance, but I can totally see when a lawyer is suggesting that we investigate this and that… and keep him on at his ginormous rate.

Ok, gotta run.  I'm going to Paris.  Just kidding.

I am alive.

Where to begin?  I am in Colorado.  It is cold and I don't have a jacket.

Last week's adventure: lawyer's offices, clients, accusations.  Accusations of people I thought were friends.  I don't understand how people sleep at night when they do stuff like this.  I can't believe I was a pawn in their game.

This week's adventure: Tuesday, 7AM flight to CO.  Thursday, 5PM flight home.  Friday, 6AM flight to LA… to sit in front of investigators as they air the dirty laundry of someone for whom I care very deeply.  At least I will be home on Friday by 4:30 PM.  I love corporate travel.  Home and drunk by 4:30.

Please make the room stop spinning.