Coming Soon to an ESC near you

Ohhhhh, it’s been fun times around here lately.

April scheduling: Mom is planning on coming to visit in april for the Dogwood festival.  AWESOME!  The dogwood festival is the 17th through the 19th.  Super!  Mom orders tickets, which she gets at an incredibly low price ($120??) because air tran is running a kickass sale.  Mom sends me her email ticket confirmation.  I check the times of her flights and shut my brain off for a few weeks, because it’s allll the way in april.

The following weekend, April 22nd-26th, is Stitches South, for the very first time in ATLANTA, which means I can go without having to drive very far or fly.  Sweet – I’m totally lazy and poor.  So I make plans with Grace and Julie, who are both coming to stay with me that weekend so we can PARTY HARDY with southeastern knitters (don’t kid yourself, we are a hard drinkin’ hard partying crowd – I imagine we won’t be going to sleep until, like, 11:30pm every night, AT LEAST! WOOHOO!). I’m psyched, my friends are psyched, there is a general feeling of psyched-outtedness going around.

Then I decide to check my mom’s email to figure out what days I need to request off and add them to my work calendar.  Except my mom’s ticket confirmation says that my mom’s flights are the 21st and the 27th of April.  Which is NOT the dogwood festival weekend.  It is Stitches weekend.

what

the

fuck?

Mom picked the wrong weekend, and since I wasn’t paying attention, I didn’t catch it right away.  And normally this wouldn’t be a problem, except that I have out of  town guests and plenty of things planned with them that weekend!!!  uuuuunnnnnnnggggh!!!

Call mom, explain the problem, she checks with air tran.  That sale?  Ended the previous day.  Now it’s going to cost $75 to change her flight to a $249 round trip, PLUS pay $15 for checked luggage.  And since my parents are in the middle of an extensive and expensive kitchen/dining room renovation, so that cost increase was unacceptable.

Dramaz.

Fortunately, air tran started another sale, so it looks like my mom will be able to get a similar price for that weekend…plus the $75 fine.  Which sucks, but hey…ALL AIRLINES SUCK RIGHT NOW.

So april is going to be pretty busy for me.  But fun!

Let’s see…what else?  Kevin is still looking for a job.  I’m still working at the same place, contract, which expires at the end of this month.  And no one at work seems concerned about this but me.  They all seem to think I’m just going to be around helping them out…but NO ONE WILL TELL ME WHAT IS GOING ON.  This is very frustrating, as I’m sure you can imagine.  We did get a brand new veep last week, and he’s meeting with everyone one-on-one to get “down with the peons,” and my turn is this friday, if it doesn’t get rescheduled…again.

In the meantime, in total defiance of our financial situation, Kev and I continue to look at homes for sale.  YOU HEAR THAT ECONOMY???  YOU ARE NOT CRUSHING OUR SPIRIT OF HOPEFUL OPTIMISM!!!  YOU BASTARD!  YOU WON’T GET US!!!

*soft weeping*

So it’s all good.

In the spirit of “fuck you, economy!!!”, I’m going to have the FIRST EVER SUPER REAL CONTEST here at evilsciencechick.com, with an ACTUAL SPONSER and an ACTUAL PRIZE!

I know, right?  Pretty exciting!  So stay tuned! Details to be revealed by the end of the week.

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