I think Apple products are a lot like politics. Most people are middle of the road, don't make a big stink about what they own, but those on the extremes sure are loud enough to make it seem like they are the only ones who exist. The hubs and I also preordered iPhone 5s and are waiting patiently, but we didn't choose the 5 because OMG it's the iPhone 5! We chose it because our contract just expired and we're switching carriers, and between the 5 and the 4S, it made more sense to get the latest generation knowing that we'd be using them for a long time. But since I didn't post thirty million times about it on my facebook page, our moderation gets lost in the sea of "I camped out for 3 days to get one!"
I don't know why you thought there wouldn't be an annual convention for mushroom anime. I loved going to Shiitake Con to get my fix of Porto the Bello shojo manga, and it was ruined by UnCONventional.
That totally happened to me when I canceled my Sprint account (isn't being married awesome??). I logged in one day because I just wanted to get any outstanding payments squared away, and whoa everything was gone.
But then I wound up owing nothing, so it was great!
I don't know why anyone would want to wait at all to send out thank you notes.
I've been hoping that our guests are smart and mail us gifts (as opposed to bringing them to the reception) for two reasons: 1. So that we don't have to deal with the stress of trying to ship all that crap from WI to CA while keeping cards and tags and the like with the right items, and 2. So that I can write my thank yous as we get something and not have the project pile up.
I don't know what the point of this comment is, so yay presents and yay thank you notes!
I feel your pain on that no honeymoon thing. Erik and I planned on being in Milwaukee starting August 11 just to make sure there were no problems with getting the marriage license. Even working remotely whenever I can, I'm going to use all of my accrued vacation time. We can do a sad "no honeymoon (for now)" dance together.
Did you get any of what the attorney said in writing? If not, your email isn't going to do much good. I'm sorry this is happening to you. If you don't mind, just how bad is the money thing?
:( I'm calling you out on your stupid cookie challenge. I asked for your EC address and I asked you to hang out while you were in town. But apparently you're too cool for care packages or making cookies with me, so I am officially stepping out of any attempts to do something nice for you.
You should just consider yourself lucky I didn't go with the original draft of the movie where I just sat at my kitchen table, eating Ginger Creams silently and giving the camera a pointed look. It's not fair to put something impossible as a Karma challenge and then not help people out when they ask for basic info that will make the task less impossible LIKE AN ADDRESS OR A PHONE NUMBER MMMMKAY? I should totally get partial Karma because it's not my fault I couldn't successfully complete the challenge. I did ask for an address early enough that had you given it to me, you too could be eating Ginger Creams right now.
i've never played lazer tag, and i think i'm going to riversplash with a friend tomorrow if he ever calls me and tells me what time we're meeting, so boo no sunday fun for me.
next time, perhaps, i can do the hanging out thing.
after this weekend (i.e. after erik leaves town), feel free to include me in the hanging out mix. if not, well, i have enough video games that i can totally become a hermit. :P
and at some point when you're in milwaukee: you, me and anyone else in the entire vicinity who wants to come (even the odd man from across the street), and ma fischer's. yum dinerage?
if you want to get from anywhere outside of beloit to campus, mapquest and the like offer the fast way to get here. the fast way, unfortunately, goes past the liquor store with the drive-up window and the huge billboard for Everett's (another liquor store), and the run down part of beloit. so the admissions office makes very specific driving directions that they send to all prospies... the one that takes them past the large, gorgeous houses and when you turn onto the street that actually takes you to campus, you get this whopping view of middle college, the oldest building on campus (AND the oldest building northwest of chicago to have been used continuously for higher education! oooOOoooo!) and the view is there for like, six blocks. so your first view is this regal, old building that lasts forever.
this rambling really had no point, but it seemed to fit in well with your not-a-street-a-bridge story.
see now setting the monkey on fire would have been hilarious. i have no problems with that. i'm just a big ole stick in the mud when it comes to creepy factor of curb stomping.
i watched that movie. all almost five minutes of it. horrifically. what a terrible thing to do to a monkey. it was funny until that bite the curb part.
