Current Most Notables

1) Thursday night. I'm doing crossword puzzles in bed. Big explosion. Power goes out. I'm walking down the stairwell in curiosity and firemen are walking towards me. Panic. No, just 2 girls stuck in elevator. Girls are saved. Power comes back on 3 hours later.

2) Unfortunately, ever since the power came back on, my heater has been blowing cold air. I call in a work request at 7am Friday morning and they are surprised to hear about my situation. Call at 4pm to check on the status. The woman at the front desk says "I don't know if they have gotten to your unit yet." To which I replied that they would not be leaving me without heat over the weekend. She said of course not. I stay at work for a couple more hours just to be sure they have all the time they need and when I get home, there are 2 electric radiators sitting inside my front door. I guess that answers that. But I barely sleep because I'm terrified the space heaters are going to burst into flames.

3) At noon today, a maintenance guy knocks on my door to fix my heat. Then an electrician shows up. The conclusion? They can't fix my heat until Wednesday because they used all their spare parts on the other apartments. Read carefully: Despite being the first person to report my heat being out, I was the last apartment they came to and I am the ONLY apartment not getting the heat fixed today.

My Blogger profile doesn't lie. I am a girl. With the worst luck.

Recent Most Notables

1) I got the wrong lunch 2 days in a row.

First time was at Potbelly's on Thursday. They forgot to make my sandwich and then, after waiting, they handed me what was supposed to be my sandwich. I got back to my office and it was not even close. A coworker said "Maybe you'll get a free sandwich." To which I replied "What I need is a new life." Dramatic, much? I went back and they had the nerve to blame ME. I had the nerve to demand my money back.

On Friday, I visited a local restaurant (about a 10 min walk) and ordered a meatball wrap to go. When I got back to my apartment, I pulled it out of the bag and it did not feel at all warm. When I opened up the foil cover, it was some sort of salad inside the spinach wrap. I called the restaurant and the first thing she said was "Does the salad have apples in it?" WTF does that matter?? Meatballs and salads could not BE more different. Apparently the apples meant that the cook made a Mista Wrap instead of a Meatball Wrap. Again, who cares. It's still wrong. Luckily, she said that if I brought it back they would give me the correct wrap AND a cannoli. Ok, fiiiiiine.

2) I made some super delicious personal pizzas this weekend. Recipe can be found here from MckMama.

I also made some Roasted Red Pepper Cheese dip, which can be found here from Kraft. (I skipped the chives and mixed Good Seasonings Italian dressing powder into the cream cheese instead.)

3) My church is partnering with Catholic Charities for holiday gift-giving. You bring a gift and set it under a tree at church and they deliver them to needy children before Christmas. Before that though, there are small baskets in the back of church where you can pick up a tag with the age of a child and a gift request. Is it bad that I rifled through the basket today until I found a tag that I liked?

Today's Most Notable

1) Work is FRANTIC all day, every day, these days. And I just got in an argument with one of my brothers. So, I needed some funny in my life and turned to Old Reliable - Charlie the Unicorn on YouTube. There are currently 3 episodes but here is the original: Charlie the Unicorn

I can just hear my brothers saying in that creepy voice "Come to Candy Mountain, Charlie" and "Shun the nonbeliever. Shuuuuun." and "Bridge of hope of wonder!" and, well, every thing said in this video. Made of awesome.

UPDATE: True Confessions - When I'm having a really bad day, I go into the Hallmark store and listen to the Hoops & Yoyo greeting cards. Guaranteed win.

Today's Most Notable

1) I went to get my nails done today. Towards the end of the appointment, when no one else is in the salon, I set down the magazine and the technician sees this as the key to start talking. I swear that the following is verbatim what was said.

Her English is not good, so I try and keep things simple.

Her: What is your job?

Me: I work for the government.

Her: What do you do in the government?

Me: (um, I want her to shut up...so I will make my job sound scarier than it is.) I do investigations.

Her: Oh! I have an investigation right now!

Me: (shit.)

Her: I have been waiting to find out about it for a year. You need to help me. Why is it taking so long?

Me: (what the hell is she talking about?) I don't think it's the same kind of investigations that I do. I'm sure I cannot help you.

Her: Why aren't I a citizen yet? I have been waiting. I talked to my Congresswoman and she sent 3 letters but I am still waiting. You need to help me.

Me: Yeah, I definitely don't know anything about that. Keep talking to your Congresswoman.

Her: You need to talk to the Congresswoman. Here is the name of the woman who signed my citizenship papers. Ask her why I am waiting.

Me: Again, I don't know her. I cannot help you.

Her: Look her up on the internet and call her. She kept asking about my husband's family, but I divorced him 2 years ago. I don't remember his family's names. It was so long ago! I don't want to remember them.

Me: (can't or don't want to? big difference.) You need to remember because that's important for the investigation.

Her: I can't remember because I have a baby now and I had a c-section.

Me: (oh. my. God. this is not happening to me.) The c-section made you lose your memory?

Her: Yes. I cannot even remember my birthday!

Me: Ok, I really cannot help you. Investigations take a long time. And I need to get going, so please go back to working on my nails.

Her: But I have been waiting. I am so tired at the end of the day because I have a job and a baby and the waiting.

Me: (someone please set this place on fire right this minute.)

This continued until I paid with my credit card, which she used to write down my name and asked when I was coming back to tell her when she would be a citizen.

Today's Most Notable

1) I was exposed to the flu. I'm so upset about it that I cannot fall asleep and am therefore writing this post.

2) Some girls in my building had a dance party at 4am. Although I applaud their spirit and it did make me smile, it did not need to happen with the windows open or continue for 30 minutes. Go to The Note next time, k?

3) I found a gift for my dad to give to my mom for Christmas. Now I just need to find the rest of the gifts my dad will give my mom. This has been my job for the last 3 or 4 years. The only problem this year was that he asked "What size?"

Whoa, that is NOT my job.

Today's Most Notable

1) I put "toothbrush sanitizer" on my Christmas list. Toothbrushes have always skeeved me out, so I'm really glad I flipped through the Brookstone catalog this week.

Today's Most Notable

1) During a morning meeting, I got a compliment from my boss on how well I was leading the team...and then about 20 minutes later we realized that I'd forgotten to invite someone on the team to the meeting. FML.

2) At lunchtime, I bit into my bread from Cosi (you know, the flatbread that comes with salads) and started choking. I pulled it out of the paper bag it comes in and the entire piece had had a container of salt dumped on it. Seriously. I tried wiping the salt off and it was still a coating of white on the bread. Garbage.

3) When I got off the bus after my commute home, I was waiting to cross the street and another bus going the opposite direction hit a puddle and water kicked up all the way over to my side of the street and landed directly on my stomach. Thank you God for reminding me that I was too hungover to go to church on Sunday. It won't happen again.