Back in Action

Marketing people love me. When I saw this in the store, I had to buy it. Even I have to admit it's wacky having a "limited edition" cereal box, but with all the other crap I collect, I won't be keeping these.

I just can't wait until the new Indiana Jones movie comes out on May 22nd. I'm debating on taking the day off from work (not even with a "cough-cough" day).

Just Like Old Times

Last week, my boss asked me to go to a trade show in her place. So, here I am back in California! (Who's complaining???)

Leaving Minnesota, we had to wait for a flight attendant and then the start of a snow storm delayed our flight for over an hour.

But since it was triple the cost to fly directly into San Diego, I decided to fly into LAX and drive down. I knew I had time to drive down and then pick up a coworker who was flying into the San Diego airport.

Only now with the weather delay, I had less than two hours to get from LA to San Diego.

Don't tell Mom or law enforcement, but the drive that normally takes about 2.5 hours was able to be done in 1.5 hours. Let's just say I wasn't going 65. (Safety first, Kiddies!!!) But I used to drive this all the time when I lived here, so I knew the roads very well and where I can push the limit. So with the sun roof open and the XM Radio on the 80's channel, I flew, er drove down to San Diego.

As I was pulling off the freeway, my coworker's plane flew overhead. Perfect timing!

And of course we hit the Old Town Mexican Cafe in Old Town for some great dinner.

Oh, I promise to follow the posted speed limits on the drive back on Wednesday...or as close as possible.

Too Much Tech?

During my travels around Europe, I went to a few classical music concerts in Germany and Austria. The audience would sit still through the entire performance, and would glare at you if you so much as scratched your nose.

So tonight in church for the Good Friday service, which was less than an hour mind you, I was distracted by a gentleman who couldn't sit still to save his life. It's like he had ants in his pants. Then I was appalled by someone else in the pew in front of me who felt compelled to send a text message during the service.

Is it something about our culture where people can't stay focused if they've made a commitment to something? This guy texting reminded me of when a group of friends and I went to see The Lion King last year. A guy kept checking the football score during the show, so finally at Intermission I said, in my passive way but voice loud enough for him to hear, "Yeah, the show's great if only this guy could figure out to check the score when the theatre isn't dark."

His embarrassed wife made him put away his Blackberry.

So This Is Spring?

It's the first week of Spring and when commenting to my friend, Rich, "This is pretty for Christmas, but not so much for Easter," I was humbled when he replied, "There's a time and place for everything." And he's right.

But no offense, Rich, but I'm so over Winter!!!

On My (Disney) Way

On my last day and on my way to the airport, I had one last drive by.

Tomorrowland Attractions Reunion

After my horrific day at work, there finally was some good news. I was able to see my friend Mike.

While having dinner with Mike at Storytellers, I was heading for round two of the buffet. In the booth right next to us, were two wonderful former Tomorrowland Attractions friends: Wendy and Gail. They were having dinner with family and friends and it was great chatting with them.

About 10 minutes later, I see another former Tomorrowland friend, Annette. And on KTLA News earlier this week, I saw my friend Jim from Tomorrowland on TV. This week was a Tomorrowland Attractions reunion! How could it get any better?

Maybe this?

Well, not only that, but eventhough Mike was very tired and just got back from a week-long vacation in Disney World, he was nice enough to sign me into Disneyland so that I can finally ride this (I took this picture last year, but because we were there at night, I'm recycling my photos):

And that would be Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage. Let me tell you, it was worth the wait. Very cute story and it was fun riding the Subs again, even though I hated working that Attraction.

If you have seen The Seas with Nemo and Friends at EPCOT, it's similar technology, but they have extended it on the Subs. And I even spotted the familiar sea monster at the end of the Attraction!

So Timmy's happy he was able to see Disney friends as well as to finally pop into Disneyland!

Duck!

When I left for work Thursday morning, I should have known that this Duck would determine how my day was to go. In fact, to quote him, it was an "exasperating" day. Good thing this bird didn't leave a present on my windshield.

You see, this day was going be one of those days where I should have stayed in bed at the hotel. Not only were there some things going on at my office via email, but my customer also was having some 'melt downs'.

So we had a couple of lengthy phone conversations with a VP and some IT developers at my office. We had resolved one of the issues, so in a note I thought I was sending to my colleagues back in the office that said something, "Welcome to my world this week", I discover I sent that to the customer to whom I was referring.

Explaining that I felt that I wasn't accomplishing everything for him and feeling frustrated, I also hoped to get as much resolved for him by Friday. I don't know if he bought that dumb excuse, but at least I felt a bit better about my faux pas.

I supposed I should feel grateful and lucky that I took the sentence, "Same circus, different clowns" out of my email.