Next time, I’ll just get it myself

Last night, neither Husband nor I felt like cooking. The tenants that we have with us right now weren’t there, so we decided to be lazy, and just order in. So as I was driving home from work, Husband was placing an online order to Pizza Hut, for some delivery. (I love that people deliver food to you – I think it’s such a great invention!) The online thing said that it would take 30 minutes, so we sat down and watched a little TV while we waited. After about a half an hour, I kept wondering where our food was. After 5 more minutes, I was getting hungrier and hungrier, and wondering if the food guy got lost, and then as we were chatting about it, Husband realized he had put the wrong address down for our house address – he put the address of his work – in Lindon.

So we hurry and call the Pizza Hut we thought we had ordered it from, but after a few minutes on the phone, they told us they didn’t have our order, we didn’t order it through them. So we call another Pizza Hut, with the same result – we didn’t order it through them. Well by now I’m like, something’s hinky here. I checked my bank account balance, and sure enough, they had taken the money out already, so I knew we had ordered it from somewhere. So we remembered that they send out an email after you order a pizza. We check the email, and ta-da! There’s the number of the right pizza hut! I quickly call them, give them my name and number and… they can’t find my order. At this point, I’m like, what the junk, I know someone has to have my order, because they took my money. After many minutes, Husband figures out why they can’t find the order – he had put the wrong area code for my telephone number, so they couldn’t locate it.

Finally, finally, we got it all sorted out, and about 5 minutes later, our pizza was finally delivered. Luckily, it was still hot, and very delicious. If there’s one thing I’ve learned from this, it’s that maybe its better to not be so lazy, and get up and get our own food. Or…any time there needs to be any info filled out online…maybe I should just do it.

Miscellaneous Monday

Colorado Edition

I went to Colorado over the weekend. Well, not really over the weekend, but I was there, in Denver, for about 36 hours. We (PJ and I) flew out of Provo – which was pretty cool. Here are a few highlights.

I watch a Food Network show called “Challenge” in which 4 bakers across the nation come together to compete on who makes the best cake, and they’re judged by a few people. One of the judges, Keegan Gerhard, is a chef who owns a little cafe/bakery in Denver, called D Bar Desserts. I have long wished to go there, and finally, this trip, I did. I even saw Keegan – he was standing right in front of me! I was so excited. I wanted to take a picture, or speak to him or something, but he was speaking on the phone, and I didn’t want to interrupt. Incidentally, the treats I tried at his bakery were crazy delicious.

We went to a favorite breakfast spot there, called Hot Cakes. I love this place so much. I get the chocolate chip pancakes, and they are sooo good. I took a picture of them, but I don’t know if you can appreciate the size of the pancakes from it. 

The plate there is a regular dinner plate size. These things are HUGE, and you can only get 2 – not one. So I ate half of both of those pancakes, and called it good, and felt like I had eaten too much.

Now, the reason for the trip was to see RSL play Colorado. Sadly, we tied, but because we had beat them earlier in the season, the Rocky Mountain Cup was ours. We have held onto the Cup for 5 years now – we are champions. (Well, in that regard, anyway) The game was pretty fun, but because all of the traveling fans around us are drinkers of alcohol, a lot of them were drunk. And spilling on us. And using cheers that had shady language in it. But, we still had fun, we just kind of ignored them, and screamed and cheered our faces off.

That was the trip – short, sweet, but loads and loads of fun.

Foto Friday

I’d like to think that I’m an awesome runner. That when people see me running down the street, they look at my form, my speed, my everything, and just go, “Dang. Now that’s a runner”.

Unfortunately, this photo is what I believe is an accurate description of my life.

At least I’m probably having fun.

Vieve’s Video’s

Ok, this was way too cute not to share. I may have blogged already once today, but this is going up as well. This tugged at my heartstrings, and it made me want to go to Disneyland as well. Enjoy.

(I hope this link works, it was tricky.)

Happy Thanksgiving!

Well, kids, Happy Columbus day! Today is a glorious day…ok, I won’t lie. Columbus Day really means nothing to me. Its not a day you get off of school, it’s not a day you get off of work, it’s not really a day I observe, so to me, sadly, it doesn’t really mean anything. But last year I learned that Canadian Thanksgiving is today. And, having married a Canadian, this means I get two Thanksgivings a year!

Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays. I’m not really sure why Canadians are weirdos and hold it a month early, but I’m happy to celebrate it as many ways as I can. I don’t treat Canadian Thanksgiving the same way I celebrate American Thanksgiving. On our holiday, I run the Turkey Trot, I sit around all day watching parades, and stuff myself to the gills at dinner, and then spend the rest of the day in a food coma on the couch, watching Thanksgiving-ey movies. (thank you, Lifetime and Hallmark channels, for airing those types of movies, that I can Tivo). But today, because it’s not a holiday Americans celebrate, I get up…go to work…wait until the day is over, and then eat a regular sized dinner. It’s still turkey, and all that jazz, but the feeling isn’t quite the same.

Maybe someday this great nation of ours will start to celebrate the holidays of other countries. Maybe we’ll have many days off a year, for things that we don’t really understand. But for now, I will celebrate the Canadian Thanksgiving the way everyone does – by mostly ignoring it. :)

Foto Friday

This will be a wordy entry for a Foto Friday. Yesterday, my little sister got married. It came as a surprise to me, too, I had only learned about it the night before. Husband and I were asked to be the witnesses, of course we said yes, and we were told to be at the courthouse at noon. It was a lovely ceremony, performed by a judge.

The night before, when they were asking if we wanted to be the witnesses, they also asked if they could move in with us when they got married. See, the guy my sister is marrying, has also joined the Army and he's going to Basic Training on Nov. 28. So instead of wasting money on an apartment for only 6 weeks, they asked if they could just occupy a free room we have in the basement. After a long talk, we decided to let them move in. (It was either they live with us or

live with my parents, and whilst my parents are awesome, we decided to let them live here) The stipulation here, of course, is that when the husband leaves, my sister has to as well. No offense to her, I just don't want her living with us. This might seem mean, but its for the best.

Anyway, so they went on their honeymoon this weekend, and will be moving in on Sunday. The room that they'll be moving into currently belongs to Pony, who I've not mentioned on here before. Last year, for my birthday, my parents gave me a pony, a little stuffed one that is about 2 feet tall. I can ride on him if I crouch, it's a lot of fun. I've been giving the newlyweds a hard time about moving in there, telling them that the room is Pony's, and they'll have to share. So today, Husband and I decided it would be funny if Pony made signs and put them around the room. So I took some time, and made the signs and posted them up. It took a lot of time, and my fingers were black, but it was worth it!

This is how Pony looks in there all the time:

This is the first sign in there:

And this was another good one:

I put up six signs in total, but to put them all up seemed a little overkill. None of the signs have the right grammar, which I just thought would be a funny touch.

Now, is this crazy of me ? Maybe, but I think it's hilarious, and I can't wait to see the expressions of the others when they see it, and really, that's what makes it all priceless.

Vieve's Videos

I was on Twitter today, and Andy Williams (#77 on my beloved RSL) tweeted out the video. Now, I've never played Angry Birds, but I hear it's crazy addicting. And I'm sure this is an accurate representation of the game, with soccer players. Anyway, I don't really need to explain much of this beyond, a soccer team has recreated a live version of Angry Birds. These guys are AMAZING - I wish I had the accuracy required to do all of this stuff. But enjoy, anyway, and hopefully you'll be as impressed as I was!

Angry Birds!

PS Sorry I couldn't put the video directly on here, and only could link, I'm not blogging from a usual place. :)