A Little About My VDay

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010 3 Comments

First off a little about my Valentine’s Day. To start with Joshua’s present was from Shari’s Berries. The set he got included a dozen chocolate dipped berries, 9 chocolate dipped chocolate chip cookies, and 9 chocolate truffles. All this was suppose to show up on Friday the 12th because Saturday we would be gone all day, and Sunday they don’t deliver. Joshua paid $35.98 extra to make sure that order was guaranteed to be delivered on the 12th. It didn’t show up.

Although their customer service is available Monday-Friday, Joshua was able to get on the phone with someone late Saturday afternoon to see what was going on. Turns out UPS never picked up the order. Instead they refunded the shipping, sent it out via Fedex and it showed up yesterday. Well, yesterday they only sent the berries; the cookies and truffles were missing. Joshua called today, and they are resending the entire order and it should be here by Friday. We shall see! All I know is UPS sucks and Fedex wins. Yay.

Aside from the berry fiasco, I had a pretty chill Vday. We went to church and lunch with the family, and then hung out at the house till 5:30pm. During the afternoon Joshua watched Nascar while I worked on my mid-term project. At 6pm Joshua and I met up with my girls Amber, Abby, and Debbie at Chili’s for dinner. Because the wait was super long (about 45mins) we were forced to go see the movie Valentine’s Day at 8:45pm instead of 7:30pm as originally planned.

The movie itself was really cute and funny. My one annoyance is because it’s directed by Gary Marshall he has the same friggin people in all of his movies. Seriously, everyone that was in Princess Diaries, Runaway Bride, and Saving Helen was all in that movie (even the annoying tap-dancing maid and the yelling guy from Princess Diaries 2). Come on Gary Marshall mix things up a bit! Other than that, this is probably the first movie with Ashton Kutcher in it where I don’t hate him! Hooray!

Overall I had a great Valentine’s Day because once again it was spent with the people I love. That’s what it is all about. A day of love. ♥

I Went to Macworld

Sunday, February 14th, 2010 1 Comment

This year I decided to finally go to Macworld. I also dragged along Joshua and we had a nice day in the city.

Joshua and I took the 9:40am Ferry into the city, hopped into a cab, and checked into Macworld by 11am. Overall, it was okay but wasn’t as good as I expected it to be. I think a lot of it had to do with the fact that Apple wasn’t there, and we had Expo Only passes. Most of the vendor stuff I wasn’t really interested in. There were only two app booths that really caught my eye:

The FastTrac app. This app creates a customized schedule based on the rides you want to go on at Disneyland and gets you through all of them without super long line waits. Another cool app I discovered is called iKeysToGo for Photoshop CS4. It gives you a list of all the different shortcuts in Photoshop plus definitions. It’s pretty nifty! I also stopped by Joby’s booth to pick up a Gorillapod for Joshua’s brother since he was so enamored with mine the last time I brought it over.

We left the expo shortly after 12 and took a cab back to the Ferry building. Our cab driver on the way back was a bit of a loon who spent the drive ranting and raving about global warming (he was driving a Prius cab ). He even made some comment about Joshua needing to go back to school (Joshua is a bit skeptical on global warming), which I thought was super rude and unprofessional. The only good that came out of that cab ride was he knocked $6 off our cab ride if we downloaded a free new cab app called Cabulous, so our cab ride ended up costing us $2.

All throughout the day I was feeling very run down and exhausted, so I wasn’t at all sad we left the expo so soon. I think the nice part was I got to spend an entire day with Joshua. We stopped for a late lunch at Mary’s Pizza Shack and came home where we spent the remainder of the evening catching up on two weeks worth of unwatched TV in the DVR.

Overall it was a good day. Would I go to Macworld again? Probably not, but it was a cool experience nonetheless.

Happy Birthday to Me

Sunday, February 7th, 2010 5 Comments

Today was my birthday, and I turned 23 years old.

Last night I went to dinner at Joe’s Crab Shack with my parents, sister, and Joshua. We had a great time. Today I went to service and then had a big birthday party in which we celebrated my birthday, Joshua’s birthday, my future mother in-law’s birthday, and my future brother in-law’s birthday. There are so many birthdays that we’re celebrating them all on the first Sunday of every month.

Words cannot express how truly grateful I am to have the family and friends I do that care so much about me. I can’t thank you all enough for the kind birthday wishes. ♥