and here i go just makin' the same mistakes

so vacation was AWESOME. it was really hot in ca but i survived. the highlights:

- going to the pier with felicity. she insisted on walking and would not get in the stroller for a very long time. we were walking along the bike path at the beach (at this point she'd probably walked about a mile... that's a lot for a two year old) and she would stop and look at me and say 'mimi, sit down' and she'd sit on the curb and recover for a while and then she'd get up and start walking again. it just cracked me up that she would rather stop and sit on the curb then get in the stroller! i was like dude if you want to walk you can push me!

- disneyland! it was so awesome to see everybody and to get to go there with all the babies. ultimate moment: amber and i were at the tiki room getting some pineapple goodness. we went in the waiting area, order from in there and watched the movies about hawaii. anyway we're on our way out and i see this guy flipping out. he's yelling at some poor old guy saying 'that's the tiki room not the dole pineapple express lane!' to which the man was responding with 'i would suggest you file a complaint with city hall.' we're walking away and i'm telling amber about what i just heard and who should should come up behind us? the crazy man still yelling to the woman he is with about the injustice that is 'the dole pineapple express lane.' at which point i made a zigzag so i would get the chance to check this guy out. anyway we wound up walking behind him the entire way to... CITY HALL. where he got in the world's longest line to complain about the fact that he just had to wait in a long line. oh the beauty of it! two things. 1. i would never complain about anything while at disneyland b/c as soon as someone suggested i should take my complaint to "city hall" i would probably fall over laughing and forget about it. the idea of being an upset citizen of disneyland and taking my problems to city hall is just too funny. 2. if i was the woman with this guy i would have been like dude you're on your own, i'll see you at the car. i had to stop myself from telling her 'seriously? you can do better.'

- jack in the box! they now have a touch screen ordering system, which means... I DON'T HAVE TO SPEAK TO A HUMAN. that is my favorite thing in the entire world. thank you jack in the box for being awesome.

- my new nickname. felicity has decided my name is now 'mimi.' why? no one knows. but i LOVE it.

- dave & buster's. we went to the store in santa anita. it was amber, felicity, adam, britt, james, my dad and me. we had lunch and then spend some time in the arcade. after about 30 minutes in the arcade we left. as we got out to the mall my dad shouts 'thank goodness we are out of that god forsaken hell hole!' and i say 'you mean DAVE AND BUSTER'S?!?' at which point my dad tried to explain that he doesn't actually hate my employer it's just loud and not his scene. it was hilarious mostly b/c that it was what i think when i walk out every day! ::hahaha:: oh that place.

- natural history museum. so this museum has like the world's largest bird display. miles and miles of bird information. they didn't actually make any claims about having the world's largest bird display, so don't try to fight me about it. i'm just saying that so you know it was really freakin' big. anyway they had this part where you walked through the jungle and saw the jungle birds. and what do jungle birds do for fun? EAT MONKEYS. there was a bird with a MONKEY IN IT'S MOUTH. i freaked out and was like since when do birds eat monkeys?!? it's just not ok. i can't decide if it was some joke the museum was playing on the good people of la or if there are really birds who eat monkeys.

so i just googled 'monkey eating bird' and got this: The monkey-eating eagle is the national bird of the Philippines. It lives in the rainforest and builds its nest in the highest canopy it can find. In the early 1970s the population was only 36-50 individuals.The monkey-eating eagle was discovered in 1896 by John Whitehead, an English naturalist, who said that their primary prey was monkeys. In the 1970's scientists found that they eat mostly flying lemurs. They were renamed the Philippine eagle.

so i guess they are real and the people in the philippines are a-ok with this.

- dallas detour. so monday i'm flying out of burbank but a bird hit my plane and i wound up having to spend the night in dallas. less than awesome. 'less than jake? i don't get it.' besides being stuck in the ONE STATE IN THE UNION THAT I DESPISE it was kind of cool. the airline put me up in a nice hotel and i got to eat pizza and watch cable! what's not to love? it was nice to have a quiet night alone before returning. it was kind of like a vacation buffer. plus it got me out of the majority of the work day on tuesday. gotta love that. way to sacrifice your life so i don't have to work a full day little bird. that's taking one for the team little buddy.

so now i'm back. the boys decorated my desk with balloons and a 'welcome back we missed you' sign. it was very sweet. except the balloons were all deflated when i got there and i was like uhmm did you guys just tie sad balloons to my desk or what? but no, they started as happy floating in the air balloons, so that was nice and not so much like oh hey thanks for tying crap all over my desk. last night jon and i watched the yankees / o's game at bww. i love baseball. yankees won, or course. because the o's SUCK. and on that note - the end.