What Happens in Vegas Stays in Vegas: Day Three

:: The buffet to eat all buffets
- Met up with the gang for breakfast at the buffet. Holy crapola was that a lot of food. The line was pretty substantial but once we got in I realized why. I think there were like 8 different sections of food. Basically, you sat a table then went in to pick what you wanted. I had fruit, biscuits and gravy, bacon, sausage, scrambled eggs, toast. The boyfriend had all that plus about 2 other plates full of food. Big brother had some sort of beef or steak or something, it was amazing the variety.

:: Starbucks vs. Walgreen's
- You know the Starbucks theory? How there is one every other block? I have a new theory. It's called the Walgreen's theory. Whilst in Vegas I saw only one Starbucks the entire time I was there, however, it seemed like there was a Walgreen's everywhere! It got to the point where - and I've watched this skit far too many times this is proof - every time I saw one the phrase "would be like a Walgreen's, there would be two on every block and four in every airport..." would pop in my head.



:: Roller Coaster in the Sky
- So remember the boyfriend's obsession with roller coasters? And how we rode on them for 10 hours straight at World's of Fun? If not, read this: The difference between "if" and "when" Anyway, so he decided that he wanted to ride on the roller coaster on top of the New York New York hotel. As did my brother-in-law. Since my stomach was still iffy from the flights/elevator that went to high so fast that it literally made your ears ring/ginormous breakfast I happily let them go together whilst I tagged along. So they rode it while I played this ridiculously addictive Saturday Night Fever quarter game. I'm not sure what the game had to do with John Travolta or the movie but it had his picture on it. This is the same game - minus John Travolta - that the boyfriend got me hooked on this summer at the fair, go here: 2012 skits, sickness, olympics and a giant guitar. Anyway, the tickets I got from the game I gave to a kid on the way out. Not like I needed a prize out of their cheesy stash. Plus I'd have to carry it all the way back to the hotel.

:: Camera Drama
- This is where the trip went downhill. Everything was all fine and dandy and then somehow I left my camera in a taxi. Fell out of my coat pocket. Me of course being the over-reactor that I am totally flipped out. We talked to this hotel dude who checked the security camera and gave us a list of taxi cab companies that we could call, but of course when you don't plan on leaving something in a taxi you don't really pay attention to your surroundings as well as you should. Luckily my boyfriend is a car expert so he knew which company to call so we called and left our information. But it's a big town with a lot of cabs and interesting people so we have yet to hear back. I called again once we got back but still nothing. Eh. But it's fine, at least it wasn't my wallet or my phone.

:: My boyfriend is sweeter than your boyfriend. 
- Remember my segments about how my boss is cooler than your boss? or my coworkers are cooler than your coworkers? New one for you, my boyfriend is sweeter than your boyfriend. So, since I'm me, I wanted to stay in the hotel room for the rest of the day drowning in misery. If you know me and picture you would understand. I think I have over 60 albums uploaded to Facebook, not to mention multiple computers filled with them. The boyfriend then suggests we go to Best Buy and get a new one but I was having none of it. Favorite Sister-In-Law was also present. Next thing I know he's gone so I turn on Friends and start watching that. Then get a text from Second Sister claiming she misses her kids so I needed to meet her at Treasure Island to distract her. Since we were going to the show right after dinner I figured I would get changed first but didn't have enough energy to put on the makeup as was originally planned.

Oh yeah, forgot to mention that in yesterday's post. The night before the girls gave me a makeover with the makeup, I walked into the room and the boyfriend went Whoa. And that was it. There were no other words used. So I took a picture - I'll get back to that later.

So meanwhile, I changed and went down to meet Second Sister in front of the pirate ship - the red one, not the blue one. And I texted the boyfriend as I was leaving cause he told me to text him if I was going anywhere. Told him where I was going then called Second Sister cause our hotel is huge and without the boyfriend apparently suddenly I lose all sense of direction and can't find the correct exit. Except I did. But she was trying to convince me that I was wrong. Which didn't help things. I get out the back door, can literally see the pirate ship and she tells me I'm going the wrong way. Woops. Anyway, met her there and the boyfriend said he would meet us where we were having supper aka Phil's Italian Steakhouse. Someone did some massive planning on that one since some people wanted Italian and others wanted steak. Perfect.

Anyway, so we get the the restaurant - yes I did just spell check that as always - and he shows up with a new camera and memory card. Apparently, whilst still in the room he signaled Favorite Sister-In-Law that he was going to get the camera, found the address to Best Buy then took off with Brother-in-Law to go get one - same model and everything. Pretty sure all the women swooned and said something to the effect of "why can't you be that romantic with me?!" to all their husbands. But it wasn't just the camera, it was also the fact that he volunteered to go all the up and down the strip again just to retake all of the pictures that we had taken the night before.

So the only original pictures I still have left were the ones from my phone - including the makeover pictures that made him go Whoa, label me as stunning and claim to be able to look at that all day.

See, sweet.

Anyway, somehow my brother ended up seeing that picture and legitimately said "who's that?" and had no clue, then didn't believe it was me.

Perhaps I'll upload them later, if not I'm sure they'll surface on Facebook eventually.

:: Shared entree and salad
- Remember yesterday about the food pattern? I would order something, eat three bites then he would finish it after eating his own meal. See, we rarely eat when we're together. Unless there's someone with us. But since the buffet was giant we weren't really all that hungry so we shared some sort of fancy salad and shrimp scampi entree.

:: Beatles Love
- We saw the Beatles Love circ du soleil show at the Mirage on Monday night, it was fantastic. We had excellent seats right up front so we could literally reach out and touch someone if we wanted to. But that would be frowned upon. There was so much going on at once it was like you didn't know where to look. Tons of acrobats jumping and spinning and dancing and singing. Awesomeness.

:: Strip Take Two
- So we went all the way from the Wynn to the Luxor and back. Gotta be like 5 miles at least. Think I actually lost weight on that vacation, and when does that happen ever? We retook our pictures and even a few more - especially of the Luxor but I rambled about that fascination yesterday.

:: Shotglass Collection Continues
- So I have this thing where I collect shot glasses whenever I go on a trip. I got it from my brother. Anyway, the one I snagged and brought home I got this night on the street at a convenience station of sorts. I think around 2 or 3 in the morning. Was cool to see the strip at night but it brought out the creepers, though not as many as I thought. Had some well-placed security guards.

Locked Out of Heaven - Bruno Mars


the boyfriend is now obsessive with this song

Legitimate pre-midnight post. Holy Crap tag in use.

"like sea salt and cool ranch"

Today feels like two different days meshed together cause there was the leaving the apartment at 6:30 to get to class by 8 and staying there until 11:30 to learn about ILS systems.

And then there was the later day when I came home and did a bunch of homework and played Lords of the Realm 2 for like an hour.

Which I blame on my brother cause he's the one that gave me the game in the first place.

But I have to play it on Kate, cause Ziva is Vista and Vista hates all my games.

I figured I needed a break. You know the homework is madness when it makes me space out on a WMC day.

Not the official day, but the day it first came out.

Yes, I'm a nerd but you knew that already.

October 12th, 2007 it's on my door on a giant picture drawn for me by Sketch of Lindsay, Cindy, Jill and Claire. It's pretty sweet.

Or you could go with this version.

This is what happens when your best friend is an artist and you sit in the same position for a while.

It doesn't help if you have the blase personality that leads you to say, yeah go for it.

You should have seen the time she attacked my entire arm with a stack of highlighters it was ridiculous.

But I like it cause it's got all the symbols for Claire the ME and Lindsay's got the badge, Jill's got the scales and Thomas has the AP for journalism.

Dig it.



Anyway, so it's madness if I space something that big.

Cause I'm a nerd and am still crazy about a show that got cancelled in May 13th, 2008.

And it's what? October 13th, 2012.

So it's been a while.

And most of them have moved on, Lindsay Boxer has moved from San Francisco to Boston and has developed an accent, adopted a crazy family and befriended a new ME.

Jill Bernhardt defied gravity up in a space for a season, then donned Mata Hari's stockings on Warehouse.

Claire Washburn gave up the scalpel,  divorced Ed and got married to Leon Vance. She's also made appearances on Bones (again as a wife though her husband was murdered), then became a Doctor on Parenthood.

Cindy Thomas has stopped by Ugly Betty, The Good Wife, Person of Interest, and Blue Bloods. She's  currently hitting it off with the Botwin family on Weeds.

Even Jacobi made an appearance last week on Castle. I saw him and went good god, don't make him the murderer please.

They attempted to do that with Myka Bering on Castle a couple seasons ago but I was having none of it.

Anyway, the one season is all we had and for some reason they're refusing to release it on DVD which is weird because Rizzoli and Isles is huge - or it was - so you'd think that would help DVD sales.

Oh well, it'll happen eventually.

I still have yet to watch the unaired pilot just because if I do then it's officially over and I've seen everything.

Like I said, nerd.

What else can I talk about that's not Women's Murder Club or Lords of the Realm related?

Oh right, class.

Left at 6:30, stopped and got some much-needed coffee - "that's not coffee that's diabetes on ice" yes I had to have at least one WMC reference in this post - and learned all about ILS systems aka Koha, Millenium, Evergreen, Apollo, etc.

Oh, ILS stands for Integrated Library System. I forgot I'm not supposed to use jargon, my bad.

It's basically the automated systems that libraries use to keep track of who has what checked out, when things are due, what's available in the catalog, etc.

So we learned about different options available and then had some interesting discussions.

And see, discussions in that class are especially fun because the teacher also works for the same library system that I do so whenever there's some sort of reference she looks at me and smiles. Like today we were talking about the difference between the libraries so die-hard on being first that they voluntarily become guinea pigs to test out programs and the libraries that hold on to their old programs until they die. But we agreed we were more like the former when we took on Koha. And then how after we got it and made them get like 20 million updates it was safe for everyone else to join in.

I believe my exact quote was, "yeah everyone's like this system is great! and we went, what the hell are you talking about? our transition was miserable!"

But it's all good now. We've all adjusted to the new system and have learned the shortcuts to teach the patrons.

And actually it's nice now with all the updates because when you do a search on the PAC computers it doesn't pick up results that are located in other libraries in the consortium.

Cause that sucked. People were coming up claiming we had stuff but it was actually in Beatrice, ugh they were not happy.

Anyway, enough library ramblings. You should watch this clip because it's fantastic.

Like immediately, I'm still dying.



"only a woman would call someone their friend and then bitch about them for ninety minutes"

Wildly inappropriate but highly entertaining. Had to go back and tape it. Nasim Pedrad is hysterical.

I haven't watched SNL in ages, I'm so behind but I saw Christina Applegate was hosting and I'm up so why not.

Though my favorite Christina Applegate SNL episode was of course the Matt Foley episode.

"I wanna live in a van down by the river" they totally lost it.

I don't think that table was supposed to break.

Alright, on to the music before I start rambling about something else.

Song You Know But Forgot You Knew It

Cold Day In July - Dixie Chicks live

it's actually a hot day in October but it came up on shuffle tonight and is now stuck in my head.

"but if you've seen any lifetime movie you just know he's gonna kill you."