January 2010 Archive

20Jan
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Viva Italia!

Or maybe that’s Spanish. Whatever. I’m going to Italy!!!!

J and I found an amazing airfare deal a couple of weeks ago, so we pounced on it. We’ll be gone a total of 15 days, and plan to hit up Rome, Florence, and Naples. Naples is really only on the list cuz we want to hit up Pompeii. I am obsessed with ancient ruins afterall :)

J has enough hotel points to stay at a SUPER nice hotel for 6 nights for free! We’ll be spending an extra day in Rome just to take advantage of the spa and whatnot. When in Rome… lol

A more detailed itinerary will come, whenever it is that we create it :) The trip isn’t til the end of summer, so we have time!

Posted by Caro in fun, Life, Things to do, Travel and tagged with
20Jan
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Pink Eye

I think I have it. That means throwing away my contacts. Lame!

Update: I just went on webmd’s symptom checker. Clicked on “eye”

Some of the symptoms I might choose from are:

*blank stare

*seeing letters, numbers or musical notes as colors — seriously!?

Posted by Caro in Health, Life, Random
20Jan
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Keloids Can Kiss My Ass

I work in research. Every now and again, I try to “give back” to my research community. Mostly these are selfish endeavors, in that I do one study over another because I get paid. Well last week a paid research opportunity presented itself to me, so I jumped on it.

It was an MRI study. Get paid like $50 to get a 30 min MRI done. Sounds easy enough right? Well the problem with this is that you can’t bring metal into the MRI room. If you have a metal object, like say a piercing, lodged somewhere in you, it will certainly be ripped out. Painfully and traumatically. I knew this going into it, but figured I’d be fine.

I’ve had my cartilage pierced for like 9 years. Not a single problem with it. It should also be noted that I have never once attempted to remove it. I’m not even sure how to remove it.

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Posted by Caro in Fears, Health, Life, Money, Random, Things to do
20Jan
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A Colbert Olympics

I’m sure you all know what a fan of the Olympics I am. I mean, each variety of Olympics only comes around every 4 years! During the 2008 summer games I was unfortunately out of the country and had to rely on my TiVo figuring out which sports to record. It didn’t work too well. So after the ’08 viewing fiasco, I’m set for 2010 in Vancouver.

And so is Stephen Colbert.

A while back he made an announcement that Colbert Nation would sponsor the US speed skating team following an announcement that their previous sponsor had gone bankrupt. Colbert Nation sponsoring the Olympics? HELL YES!

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Posted by Caro in cool, Sports, TV
20Jan
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Chicago

I totally forgot to post about my upcoming travels. Trip #1: Chicago!

A friend of mine has to be out there for 2 weeks for work, so her company is paying for her hotel over the weekend in between. When she initially invited me for the weekend, I was hesitant since I’m trying to start up a savings account again. Luckily my boss gave me (another) free plane ticket anywhere in the US this year for the holidays! Free flight + free lodging = recipe for a wonderful girls trip in the Windy City!

One hitch: We’re going in February, which is notoriously frigid in Chicago. Keep in mind also that I am a cold-blooded creature, and require constant heating. I mean seriously, 55 degrees is COLD. 45 – well it might as well just snow. So looking at the weather forecast indicating temps in the high 20′s/low 30′s minus windchill, I’d bet a 30% chance I would freeze to death.

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Posted by Caro in cool, Food, fun, Shopping, Travel and tagged with
19Jan
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Safety First

I was on my way to work this morning and at like 8:15am I heard my phone receive a text. Weird – who’s texting me so early?

Then my phone rang. I was thinking it was J telling me i forgot some random thing at home, but what could I have forgotten that was so important?

I stopped at starbucks and look to see who called. Ah yes, the Workplace-wide Alert system, which contacts everyone in case of an emergency. So I checked the text: Power outage for several hours in all buildings.

At this point I’m thinking to myself SCORE – bad weather day? Maybe we’ll be sent home!

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Posted by Caro in Random, weird
19Jan
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Dresses!

I totally forgot to add some fun news to my winter break update. I was asked to be a bridesmaid in another wedding this Spring! I’m really happy that this is finally happening for this couple and I’m really excited to get to share their celebration with them!

The wedding is pretty soon, so we had to hurry up and make a decision on dresses. So after 2 days of shopping and trying on dress after dress (some cuter than others), this is what I ended up with:

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Posted by Caro in Life, Shopping
19Jan
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Stress and Whatnot

Why is it that when I have to deal with something tedious and out of the ordinary, it’s never just one problem at a time? I’m going to go on a long rant here!

On 1/4, the first business day of 2010, I found several problems that needed to be tackled:

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Posted by Caro in Health, Life, Money, Rants and raves, Things to do, Work
19Jan
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Posted by Caro in Baby, cool, Discoveries, Family, fun, Life
19Jan
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Chrismakkah update

So yeah it’s been over a month (I think) since my last post. I seriously suck!!! Prepare for a WAVE of posting :)

First things first: Chrismakkah and winter break

I would like to take this opportunity to thank my employers. I have been so spoiled my entire working life, and I think that if I were ever to leave my job(s) and go to a place that doesn’t give 2 weeks off at the end of the year I would die a little inside. But alas, I was able to relish in the 2 weeks of mandatory vacation time the end of last month. It’s usually a glorious time for me. This year wasn’t really relaxing, but not having to go to work, regardless of the stressors you encounter, is still glorious. So hallelujah lol.

My plan for break was to sleep in every day, eat well, go to the gym more days than not, catch up on ALL my TV shows, and read a book. The reality of what happened was sleep in about half the days, eat way too much crap, go to the gym once maybe?, catch up on one season of one TV show, and read 0 pages of a book. Not even any in a magazine! Yikes.

So what happened exactly? Yeah I’m not sure either.

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Posted by Caro in Family, Life, Random