Things I'm Thinking

1. I need to buy my ticket for my upcoming trip to Seattle and I'm approaching the 14 day advance purchase deadline but GRRRRRRRRRR the damn flights are like $100 more than I paid last time. Bing kept telling me that I should hold off and not buy my ticket because prices were expected to go down but GRUMBLE GRUMBLE, they went UP again today.

$250 to fly to Seattle?? REALLY? But at least on Southwest it's $250 with a free luggage allowance. Alaska is charging $250 plus the $30 RT baggage fees.

Related: The recent Kevin Smith vs Southwest Airlines thing makes me nervous! I've never been told I need to buy two plane seats to accomodate my fat ass but what if my good luck runs out?? OHHHHHHHHHH the horror.

2. My friend Walkera and I are going to see our boyfriends Billy Joel and Elton John in concert tomorrow night. The old guys got sick when they were originally scheduled to be in town so it was rescheduled to tomorrow so barring any new cases of the sniffles, we'll be enjoying our youngest-people-in-the-audience status TOMORROW!

3. Speaking of boyfriends, I wanted to mention that those flowers I got yesterday? Were a huge surprise because I thought I'd already opened my Valentine. The part that arrived in the mail on Friday was SO FREAKING SWEET but I can't tell you about it because some smart cookies will be able to put two and two together and figure out the identity of my secret-from-the-internet boyfriend and it's just not time to blab about that yet. He's not a celebrity or anything, so don't go thinking I finally wrangled myself up some Mike Rowe, but he's not just some guy I met at the grocery store either.


4. I've been stepping on the scale every morning to keep my motivation going and my weekend-o-eating resulted in a one pound gain and that's not the end of the world and I can deal with that but it occured to me that even my most bloated, eaten-too-much weight today is like a DREAM compared to this time last year. I've been slacking since just before Christmas and I need to step it up and drop another five pounds so I can officially say I am in unchartered territory.

5. I bought some chicken last week and the "use or freeze by" date was 2/12 but I didn't cook it until yesterday, 2/14. I haven't eaten it yet but if I die from salmonella after eating dinner tonight, that's why.