All You Can Jet 2010

In August of 2010 I bought an All You Can Jet pass from JetBlue. Basically this pass was an unlimited plane ticket for the month of September. I bought the pass for the amazing one flat rate of $500 and I could book as many flights as I would like during September 7 to October 7. It made perfect sense to buy this pass: (1) I love to travel (2) I was graduated from college (3) I was finishing up my job at USU and hadn't started the job hunt so I could easily take the time... perfect sense :)
Finally getting to the point: When buying this pass I promised a lot of people I would blog about my adventures... well... one might say I'm a bit behind... BUT HEY! Why not tell about these adventures a year later... like an anniversary type of thing: married people eat the top of their cake... I'll tell my stories. So! I'm going to be writing blog posts this month about my 2010 Fall travels (I'm going to throw in a few other trips I took along with the All You Can Jet trips)
1 of 8: Vegas
Exactly one year ago today I flew to Vegas for the day to go shopping... haha because I could! Basically I got on the plane that morning with my purse, jacket and a book. To add to the ridiculousness of this... I had a layover in Long Beach but I didn't care. Once I got to Vegas, I took the airport shuttle bus ($8) to the Planet Hollywood where the Mile Long Shops were and I headed straight to H&M. If I'm going to fly somewhere to go shopping; might as well go where I can't go at home. Once I was done with my shopping adventures at the mall, I ran over to the Belgio where I purchased some gelato and then went outside to watch the fountains (one of my favorite things in Vegas). It was lovely: chocolate gelato, warm sun, mystical fountains, shopping bags filled with cute clothes :)
After that I caught a taxi back to the airport (again, I felt very cool all by myself in a taxi with my shopping bags) in perfect timing to board the plane right away. On the flight home I ended up in the very first row of the plane (very spacious), sitting next to a man named Michael Scott. No joke. He was a talker; so we talked the entire flight home. He was from Vegas, used to be a "criminal man" but changed his life around and now volunteers at a catholic school coaching the football team. He also asked if I was Mormon, I said yes, he said, "Hmm, I like Mormons. They're good people. My nephew went to school in Colorado and dated a Mormon girl and she really turned him into a good boy. I couldn't do it though... but... yeah.... I like Mormons."


Still to come:
Boston
Maine
New Orleans
San Diego
Lake Powell
Washington DC
Cancun

Overheard at Work...

So I currently work in a Harry Potter closet... well not that bad but it is an abandoned file room. Because of this I am a bit removed from the people who work out in the rest of my floor BUT I can still hear their conversations... well here are some things I have overheard while working:

Let's get some iliterate guys who can actually play ball, then maybe the UofU would start winning again.

That's right! I'm wearing two different types of earrings... I wish it were a fashion statement.

Anything you say can and WILL be held against you.

Umm... who decided on the baby poop green color?

I'm good at offending people.

We should rid the world of all hard cookies.

It only takes one person to make a situation awkward.


What are some funny things you have overheard at work?

If I die...

Me at work the other day:

So umm… without thinking (and seriously! Why wasn’t I thinking) I just ate a crumb off my desk. Ew! I know! Welp then I just thought of the elevendy-billion germs that could be on a desk… so I may die. If so… just know I love ya

Midnight (almost) Gardening

So umm... it's almost midnight. I need to get to bed because I will be getting up in 6 hours to go running. I look over my day's to-do list and cross off the things I did (LOVE IT!) and then look at tomorrow's list.

Run 4 miles
Work
Journal Ragnar (something that keeps getting bumped)
Look into GRE prep courses
Plant flower seeds

Hmm... flower seeds... that's quick, I'll just do it right now! So I take the packet of flower seeds sitting on my dresser and head down stairs.

Supplies needed:

Flower pot (Found in my mom's messy room... where else.. haha)
Rocks (Gathered from around the deck outside)
Soil (Put my galoshes on, went into the garage, found the soil bag and used the cute garden shovel to scoop the dirt into the pot)
Water (Kitchen sink... so simple)
SEEDS! (Opened the wedding favor and sprinkled the seeds onto the dirt)
Fork (Raked the seeds into the dirt with the fork... so resourceful... I know!)

Yup... nothing funny, I just love that I decided to plant my flower seeds right before brushing my teeth, saying my prayers and going to bed.

G'Night!

(If they don't die I will be sure to post a picture of the seeds all grown up)

Like a Radio

So I was at work the other day and my job isn't what you would call "Mind Engaging," so it it easy for my mind to wander. Well on this particular "other day," my mind was like a radio on "seek" mode. I would start singing a song inside my head over and over and over again and then with out warning but also without realizing it, it would change to another song. Weird my mind is. Sometimes It would go back to a previous song sometimes it would move onto a new one. Well... this was the song line-up of this particular day:

Time to Say Goodbye by Andrea Bocelli and Sarah Brightman
It is this beautiful opera-esk song that they play to the fountains in vegas... love it!

Teenage Dream by Katy Perry
Sure... why not... it was a song on the radio that morning and it is easily found stuck in one's head.

Poker Face by Lady Gaga
Gaga has a similar style to Perry so the transition makes sense.

The Full House Theme Song
REALLY? Umm... that's random.

Gesundheit [gəˈzʊnthait] aka Gazoontite

So at work there is this guy who works over the cubical wall from me. Well one day he sneezed. Ok, cool. I try to be a courteous person, so I naturally said, "Bless you." Well since then I have discovered that he sneezes ALL DAY LONG. Perfect. Now I'm in a personal awkward predicament. See, I really don't want to say "Bless you" all day long... that has to be annoying for him because I know it's starting to get annoying for me but I don't want to be rude either. So I was like... hmm what else could I say when he sneezes; there's always "Gazoontite" (or it's german lineage gesundheit [gəˈzʊnthait]), what else is there?

I googled "What to say when someone sneezes," and it only gave me the two options from above. UNLESS I want to go foreign... then I have some more options:

France: May your hopes and wishes come true!

United Kingdom: God bless you

Spanish speaking countries but not Spain (haha): Salud

Brazil: Saude (Means "Health")

Yugoslavia: Na zdravlje

Netherlands: gezondheid

Yup... that's it!

Who started the lie?!

I know it is sad but I only just found out about Nutella about two years ago... don't feel sorry for me... it's ok :) I have made up for the lost time.

Well, for some reason I thought it was healthy for you. Why I thought this you may ask, no idea. It was an automatic assumption without really considering the idea. A little while later I heard someone say how fattening Nutella was and at first I was surprised. My outward expression said, "Well, of course. Obviously chocolate (I know it's hazelnut but I consider it chocolate) in any form is not exactly a diet food." I didn't want them to think I was stupid. But my inward thoughts were, "WHAT?! For realsies?!" Aw man! Makes sense... i sure feel silly."

Since this moment of finding out Nutella was fattening I have heard of several other people (all girls... lets be honest, only us girls would choose to believe chocolate has the potential of being heathy/non-fattening... sorry to stereotype.) who were surprised to find out Nutella was fattening because they were under the impression that it was not. One friend was even eating out of the jar with a spoon when her dreams shattered as her sister told her the truth of the delicious treat. (Confession: I still do that! The facts will not stop me)

SO! I am convinced that somewhere, somehow SOMEONE started a subliminal message that Nutella was healthy! So I want to know! Who started the lie?! Because you got A LOT of people! Props to you, haha!