Thank you Hy-Vee!
Since I appreciate that Hy-Vee provides a recycling service for those who don't have curb side pick up, I went in the store and shopped. It is one of the simplest ways you can make a difference, shop and support retailers that are good corporate citizens, avoid those who are not. Eventually even Evil-Mart will get the idea if no one goes there. I tend to shop at Hy-Vee, No Frills, and Target are the places I usually shop (oddly enough, all headquartered in the upper midwest). I'm sure this kind of radical thinking somehow labels me as a socialist.
After work I went and hung out with Troy while he played "Brutal Legend" on Xbox. Very amusing. It took me about 90 minutes before I started to get motion sickness, I think I need to sit farther back from the TV.
H1N1 finally hit home for me on Tuesday. Well sort of ... I was the only one on the phones at work, everyone else was home sick. It turned out to not be so bad, people helped out all day long. Later on I had dinner with VK.
Wednesday was a different story, I woke up achy with chills and a fever. I really don't understand how exactly you can be too hot and too cold at the exact same time. It's very annoying. I drove into work, saw there was plenty of staff, and I went home. I slept and over the next two days watched the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy, the extended version. I think when I woke up on Thursday morning, I kind of hit the panic button when I stayed home, I probably could have, probably should have gone into work, but instead I stayed home. Naturally by the end of the third movie I felt fine.
In the evening I went over to Merinda's and learned the Thriller dance. It actually turned out to be much easier than I thought it would be. After about an hour I had the majority of the moves down, and was starting to put them together.
Friday I went back to work. After work, I went over to VK's and we had dinner, watched a movie and walked almost three miles just in her neighborhood ... almost completely without crossing paths.
Many of you have probably seen the ads on tv for the newest Droid phone, the one that makes fun of Apple. I generally think if your marketing campaign is based on the negatives of another product, you probably don't have a good product yourself. It's true that Apple has the iPhone on lockdown, but really, it's in the interest of Apple to do so. I'm not necessarily saying this is a good thing for consumers, but it simplifies things for them. I am thinking that Apple is not really opposed to the Droid (and others) as a competing product. Apple already embraces Open Source, and if the Android based phones take some of their more "demanding" customers away, all the easier to manage your own system.
Saturday early I got up and ran some errands. Nothing too exciting, to the bank and the store, and then went over to meet up with Merinda for one more dance practice. It was just us at the time, but then Joe and Frank showed up, followed by Kevin and Corinn the zombie. We only practiced for an hour or so, but by the time I left three hours had gone by.
I went home to take a nap to get rid of my headache. It didn't work, I kept getting calls, texts, roommated, and generally disturbed. VK showed up and we went out to dinner. Right after my first bite of food, the headache disappeared and finally I had some relief.
After dinner we showed up on time for the party. My fault for being on time, VK knows better, but I do not like to be late. I really don't like to be late, it stressed me as badly as I get stressed out, probably less so than I would having a gun pointed at me, but that's a different story. Back to the party ... people took pictures, who knew?
This little boy was dressed up as a hot dog, so naturally the mustard and ketchup had to "get" him.
The hostess introduces Michelle to a man that only a doctor could love.
Panda Bethany and I improvise 'more cowbell'. Photo by Matt
Believe it or not, we had dancing at one of our parties.
Speaking of dancing, we didn't do all that Thriller dance practice for nothing. I'm sure this is not the only place on YouTube that you can see this but here it is off of my camera.
It's a little dark, but you should be able to make out the basic dance.
There are more pictures of the party here from me, Matt, Maeg (including a hilarious triton moment), and for those of you on Facebook, Lisa.
I found out at 1920 on Saturday night that the time was going to change early on Sunday morning. Who knew?
Sunday I met up with Joe and Frank at DJ's Dugout in Bellevue to watch the game(s) on many many televisions at once. I think we have a new favorite place to watch. It wasn't just the set up, it was also the crowd, there were constantly cheers coming from one area of the bar or another. It makes sense since the place is near to the Air Force base, people are bound to be there from all over the country. The best thing heard during the day was from a bunch of Lions fans, right after they scored a touchdown to tie the game one of them jumped up and yelled "We're going to the Super Bowl!" ... um, no you're not.
Later in the evening, I asked Robin to pick me up some Blue Bunny "Berry Me Please" ice cream. I had noticed it in the store, and wanted to try some. The picture on the label is a classic example of false advertising. It shows a "serving suggestion" with lots of berries and swirls in a purple colored ice cream. I admit, when I opened it, the ice cream was purple ... but no berries, no swirls, just a couple chunks of chocolate (that I avoided), and by couple, I mean a couple. It was plenty tasty enough, so I don't quite understand why Blue Bunny felt the need to trick anyone into buying it. I generally like Blue Bunny, but I might try another brand for a while.
Talk to you next week.
3 comments:
You're so funny. I love your weekend updates.
You guys did a good job on Thriller. I would have really liked to have learned that. I know Matt would have wanted to also.
Great photo of the hot dog and condiments! Looks like lots of fun. I was disappointed to hear about Blue Bunny and the misleading photo. I thought they were above that too.
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