Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Last week rocked.

I was on vacation last week and it was awesome. I have decided that I need to start taking vacations more often, because A) maxing out on vacation hours causes me to lose money and that is just dumb, B) putting work before life just isn't working for me anymore and C) sometimes I just need a damn break. My boss drives me crazy and my people are more than capable of holding shit down for a week. Here was my week:

Monday: Admin day at work. I worked hard and counted down the minutes to vacation. Sydney was with her dad this week, so that worked out well. I had scheduled myself to open, so I got off about 1:30p. Jim and I loaded up my car with our stuff and his kids so we could drop them off in Lemoore at their mom's house on our way down south. When we got to her house, I created a Foursquare venue titled "Bitch Ass Freeloaders House". I was way way too excited about it and so was Jim. On the way to Lemoore, I had noticed a casino off the highway, so we stopped there for an hour or so after dropping the kids off. We gambled a little (didn't win anything) and had dinner (worst buffet ever), then continued on our way down south. We got to Redondo Beach about 9pm and decided to stay there for the night.

Tuesday: We got up early because Jim had to be in San Diego by 2pm. Jim had a meeting (he was technically there for work, not for vacation). We headed down to the Strand in Hermosa Beach and had breakfast at Scotty's while looking at the ocean. It was beautiful out, and not even very cold. We walked around and shopped at little and went Starbucks. The barista at Starbucks remembered my drink, which was amazing since I had not been to the Starbucks since last August! We continued on down to San Diego and were able to check in early so Jim could go to his meeting on time. We stayed at a Hilton in La Jolla and all of his meetings were on site. The hotel was really nice (and paid for by P.O.S.T., as well as the mileage it took to get there) but with weird, long hallways that I was really thankful I was sober while walking down them for the first time. While Jim was at his meeting, I worked out at the hotel gym. The treadmills were really cool, super-new with TV's installed with cable on each individual one. It made the cardio go by so fast. After Jim's meeting, we ventured out to the store to stock up on supplies (vodka). I just could not justify paying $12.00 a cocktail for the next 3 nights. We found an interesting vodka that was actually made by Mormans in Utah. What the hell. I can't stand Mormans and their dumb ass pure values, so you know I bought that rebellious Morman booze. And it was good too. After cocktails in our room, we went to the fancy hotel restaurant and had a really fancy expensive dinner that was so worth it. I love food. It was so delicious.

Wednesday: We got up and went to the Starbucks in La Jolla, which to be quite honest was one of the worst Starbucks' I've ever been to. The customer service was just not good. We went back to the hotel and Jim went to his meeting while I went to the gym. This meeting was a long one, so I had some time to relax as well. I love kicking back in the hotel room. I watched the Dr. Oz show and some old re-run of Miami Ink. I never get to watch that kind of stuff. After Jim's meeting, we drove over to the San Diego pier to walk around and look at tide pools. We got there about an hour before sunset, and it was low tide, so we saw some cool stuff. Walking around we realized that basically the entire homeless population in San Diego apparently lives down by the pier. There were tons of young kids setting up camp for the night under the pier, some living in their cars. Kinda sad. We decided to pick up Chipotle and take it back to the hotel for dinner. I love Chipotle and I hadn't had it in a while because of Jim's low-carb diet (on hold for the week).

Thursday: Jim had another meeting in the morning and I once again went to the gym. I had some really good workouts over the last few days. In the hotel lobby, one of Jim's colleagues mistook me for Jim's daughter, which was guaranteed to happen and is always good for a laugh. After his meeting, we headed back up to Redondo Beach. We stopped at the same Starbucks in La Jolla and it was still bar (so not fluke bad customer service, just bad). We took HWY 1 all the way up, which takes a while, but is great because it is beautiful scenery all the way up. We had lunch at Wee-Man's Chronic Tacos. It was surprising good, actually the best fish tacos I had ever had. We had plans to meet up with our friend Dena for drinks at the Redondo pier and the bar she suggested was pretty cool. It was a bar called Naja's and it offered 777 beers with 77 of them on tap. Pretty impressive. I don't remember the beer I had, but it was so good I had 3 mugs of it. And I'm not even a beer drinker. We had a great time with Dena talking and laughing, which was good because I really didn't know her very well before. Jim drank 3 gigantic mugs of Bass, and since he is a lightweight he was pretty keyed. Tacos of course sounded like the best option for dinner, so we stumbled back over to Wee-Man's for more.

Friday: We checked out of our hotel and had breakfast at Hennessy's in Hermosa Beach before heading back to Lemoore to pick up the kids. We had some extra time so we spent it walking the Strand and the pier. It ended up being a long drive home because we were stuck in traffic in Livingston forever due to emergency road construction. We picked up Sydney from my mom's in Stockton on the way and got home super late.

Saturday: I took the weekend off from Starbucks because it sucks to get back from vacation and have to go right back to work. I spent the day with the kids and they were surprisingly well-behaved. I later found out that Jim promised to take them somewhere special after he got off work if they were good, which makes sense because usually they are little turds when I watch them. We took at 4 of the girls to the Justin Bieber movie in 3-D, and it was actually really good. We had dinner at Lodi Feed and Fuel and it was terrible. I had gone there for breakfast and lunch before and it was good, but dinner sucked. And by then the kids were getting tired and were turning back into their little turd-selves.

Sunday: I worked at the restaurant. It was a typical, uneventful workday. I wish I would have taken the day off, but Sunday is the only day I work there now, so I don't take the day off unless I really have to. All in all, it was a good week.

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