October 25, 2011
-
Apparently for $2500 a night, one can rent the Jersey Shore apartment at Seaside Heights. Now my question is WHY?!?! I get that it was on TV .. but what is allure of sleeping in a bed that Ronnie and Sammi did the dirty in? Or sitting in the chairs that they flung around the apartment when they got mad at one another? I wonder if all the sheets are stained orange from their spray tans? I guess if people are paying for it, the owner should go for it, but I think for me to stay in that house, one may have to pay me. LOL.
My friends and I have been trying to figure out what to do for New Years. It is early still but i've had a couple of conversations about it. Last year was DC, the year before that NYC.. and now more people live even further away.. perhaps we can rent a cabin or apartment (NOT the Jersey Shore house) for a night or two and have a destination NYE? Maybe eastern PA? Maybe the NJ Shore? Do people even rent out things for one night? And NYE at that? Something to look in to I suppose. First I'm going to focus on the Thanksgiving Dinner that i'll be making this year for 12 people...in Amsterdam (yay! I go home for 8 days in less than one month.. so psyched!). Then I turn 30 (not sure i'll do anything for that but we'll see) and there's Christmas.. I kind of don't want to plan NYE, but I do want to make sure we do something fun. Hopefully it will be a group effort. There's still time. On that same note though, I think I bailed out of all Halloween things this year.
I was invited to a couple of parties but with no costume in mind and this nagging longing feeling to have a lazy watch movies on the couch kind of a weekend, it seemed easiest to just say no and not commit to any plans. Perhaps by the time the weekend rolls around I will change my mind, but for now, i'm thinking I'm staying home. Halloween is great for kids, and I have in the past enjoyed watching the parade or throwing awesome college Halloween parties (we had such good ones!). But now it seems like an excuse for girls to dress slutty and I don't have that desire. I also am feeling particularly non creative about other non-slutty things to be. Meh.
I preordered Walter Isaacson's Steve Jobs book with a coworker a couple of weeks ago since he had a 30% off coupon of some sort and by ordering both books together we got free shipping. I think I paid $17 for the book. It arrived today and was a surprise since i'd forgotten about it basically. $17 is not bad for a big hard cover. Sadly I won't be able to read it right away since I have other books waiting.. I should stop buying books and read a bunch of the ones I still have to get to first. I also want to read The Big Short by Michael Lewis for work. And the book my dad sent me. And the next Game of Thrones book. And and and..
Oh, so I emailed Penzey's spices yesterday about the rock solid Shallot Salt that I bought and they wrote back today that they will send me a new jar. So incredibly nice! Beyond!
Are any of y'all extreme couponers? I definitely am a sucker for a good deal and I enjoy watching that show on TLC once in a while, but I can't dedicate 30+ hours a week to couponing, plus I don't have the room or the need for thousands of dollars of groceries, even if they are free. I know there are people out there who email places all the time with compliments or complaints and they receive coupons and gifts.. perhaps i'll be one of those people when I retire? I'd love to sit around and email companies all day long telling them how yummy my lunch was or how much I enjoyed their service, but sadly I don't think my job would approve. If I had a family i bet the couponing would make more sense, but just for me? nah. Do you guys check any free sample or sweepstake sites? Do you try to win things anywhere? My basic rule is that if is seems too good to be true, it likely is.
Watching the Extreme Couponing show on TLC makes me feel great about myself though because it is nice to know that there are people out there who are more neurotic than I am. haha. Actually, I don't think I have any hoarding tendencies at all. A coupon hoarder? Grocery hoarder? I suppose this is different from stocking up on massive amouts of dolls or stuff? Who knows.
I have this nagging feeling that there was something else I wanted to write about today but for the life of me I cannot remember what. Ah well. There's always tomorrow..
Lately I've been reading some blogs on here and really have been struck by how many people nag and complain about what I consider real firstworldproblems. Now i'm aware of it on my own blog too and so i feel like everything I write about is trivial. That in and of itself is a firstworldproblem though, right? Ugh. Haha. Meh, I suppose as long as I stop once in a while and appreciate what all I have it is alright, right?
Last night the play was fun and hanging out with my cousin afterward was cool as well. I was zonked around midnight and somehow managed to be awake till about 2AM watching RHBH in bed but I feel ok today so far. My cousin is visiting me from college and we're having dinner tonight together so I want to make sure to get out of work at a reasonable hour. Maybe we'll go get pedi's together or watch a movie and order in some Thai food or something relaxing like that. Either way though, I want to get out of the office at a decent time which means I better get crackin'. See ya!
Comments (2)
There's always Vegas for New Year's!
Some friends of mine are talking about getting a group together to go there next year. Might be too late to plan for this year, hotels are probably booked.
Trivial is in the eye of the beholder. My girls create tons of drama in my life, and I've been living with it/writing about it for many years, so I'm happy when I can write about trivial things in my blog
But the juicy entries are more entertaining, I'm sure...
I've read several articles about the Steve Jobs book. I am too cheap to buy it so I will wait until someone I know casts off a copy. He doesn't seem like a nice person.
One of the things I like about being an old married person is that we can stay home and watch movies. I usually make a nice dinner. But I hate being out on amateur night.
I thought about the couponing thing for awhile and subbed to sites but they are a weird group and it all becomes about the getting the deal. I witnessed some nastiness from these women at check out lines when the store wouldn't allow them to stack coupons or use expired coupons. And then it is really annoying to go to the store to get a deal on something and find the store is out of the product because an extreme couponer has just been there. I just don't have that kind of energy.
Have a great day!