Tag: Morning Meanderings

Good morning!  Thought while having my coffee this morning I would share with you a little story from this weekend after the PINK concert.  I think it’s funny…

So….  We get out of the PINK concert around 11 pm.  By the time we get through the stalled traffic lines and heading towards our hotel we are tired and hungry.  We haven’t eaten since 2:00 pm when we had lunch.  We decide we just want something fast and we will go to a fast food restaurant near our hotel.  By the time we get back to our area of the hotel however, almost all restaurants are closed. We do however see a Burger King and we make the decision it is this, or the popcorn and chips we have back in the hotel.  We chose the King.  😀

We try the door to go in but it is locked, closed apparently at midnight and it is now 12:02.  However, the drive through is open until 12:30. YAY! 

We pull up and decide we are going to make it easy on the guy working and we are going to try the Angry Whopper, which, so you know, looks amazing when you are hungry.

I know I know.. it’s too early here to look at this now, but the other night…. oh yeah.  A burger with bacon and onion rings on it… jalapeno and pepper jack cheese.  What is not to love 😉

SO we order 4.

BK Dude:  I am sorry our Whopper machine is broke.

Me:  What?  There’s a machine?

BK Dude:  It’s the second time today (he sounds sad)

Me:  Ummm…. ok.  So exactly what can we order?

BK Dude:  Anything chicken.

Me:  Alright… we need a minute.

Voice from the back seat:  Can we get angry chicken?

Me:  Excellent!  Can we get 4 Angry Chickens?

BK Dude:  Uh.. yeah.  I think we can do that.

Total of our bill with onion rings shows on-screen $31.34

We each pony up $8 and pull around to the pick up window.  New dude opens the window.

New BK Dude:  Your total is $24.88

Me:  Oh, we were told $31.34

New BK Dude”  Yeah he forgot to give you the 2 for $5 deal.  I fixed it.

Me:  Looking at the money in my hand.  Can you take tips?

New BK Dude:  Uh… I guess so.

Me: (handing all of the money to him)  Well here then, we do not want to have to figure this out.

Anyhoo…. that’s the angry chicken story – which seemed tasty at the time…. but not so much in the morning.  😉  Some of us… had angry tummy.  😛

Hope your day is awesome!  I have book club tonight so I am pretty excited.  We are reviewing Reconstructing Amelia and afterwards, talking about the book Labor Day.  I am making something tasty from the Reconstructing Amelia book….and still trying to think of what my recipe will be for Labor Day but I kind of have an idea.   😉

Good morning from Fargo North Dakota.  I feel like I should say “ayyy” but I think that is Canada….

Last night three of my friends and I went to the PINK Concert.  Oh wow.  BEST concert I have ever been too…. do not miss the chance if she comes to a venue near you!  More on that later this week. 

We arrived in Fargo yesterday early afternoon and ate at an Old Chicago restaurant.  Our waiter (Paul) was super nice but super busy.  We asked for waters right away and then watched him pass us many times with other things going on.  Finally I caught him… “The waters?” 

“Oh yeah!” he said and off he went and forgot us again.  Pretty soon he did remember the waters and we waited about 40 minutes for our food.  At first we were a bit annoyed at the lack of good service but then we started to notice…

Paul was the only one working the 20+ tables that were occupied.  When he did come out with our food we asked him if it was always this busy.  He said not usually and two people had called in sick.  Ahhhhh…..

The food was tasty and we left him a very nice tip.  😛

These are the books that came in this week.  The top one I picked up at the library.  I had it on reserve and now I have no idea why…. (I must have read a review on it 😉 )

I have had two phone calls this morning that Brainerd Minnesota had an ice storm last night.  The roads are bad so we need to think about our plan for our travels back there today.  It is supposed to warm up this afternoon so we may hit a couple of shops in Fargo before we head back. 

Hope your Sunday is wonderful.  I am looking forward to getting back home and doing some reading. 🙂

Tonight, three of my friends and I are going to the Pink Concert in Fargo North Dakota.  Ahhh… yes, my first time out of Minnesota for 2014.  SCORE!  🙂

We have tickets to the 7:30 show.

We think. 😉

I am a little leery about Pink at this time.

Last February, we also had tickets to Pink.  She was going to be in Minneapolis. We had purchased our tickets through a friend who was buying a group of tickets.  We purchased them in November 2012 and we were EXCITED!

A couple of days before we were supposed to go we discovered we never had tickets.  😯   The girl who has purchased them did so through a ticket venue that had actually over sold.  They had called to tell her she did not have tickets and say they left a message which she never received.  The ticket cost was on her husbands credit card and when they cancelled the charge he did not tell her.  She was curious why they had not come by mail so had called and that is how we found out we did not have tickets. 

THEN….

In November of this last year she was going to be in Fargo North Dakota.  Again we purchased tickets… and 3 days before the concert she had a throat condition that her Dr made her cancel her tour dates for a week.  We were cancelled.  😯

So…..

This is the rescheduled date tonight.  I am happy to be hanging out with my friends… but after having been shut down twice… you can probably understand my paranoia 😀 .  We leave town in about an hour.  If nothing else it will be an adventure… and if you remember… my word for the year is Embrace.  😉

Have a great day – I will be back tomorrow afternoon.  There are posts still coming.  If you have any concert stories to share… I would love to hear them. 😀

6:00 am the alarm goes off.  *GROAN*

I had a delivery of a table I sold on a Facebook site to a town 30 minutes away.  ETA:  7:00 am.  After loading the HEAVY marble-topped table into my car and cursing myself for thinking this was a good idea to meet up this early for the entire 30 minute drive (yes – that’s A LOT of cursing…) I arrived at the exact minute of 7:00 am where I met up with the delightful (not even being sarcastic) buyer who took the table off my hands and I purchase a coffee and drive back to town a little less annoyed with myself than I was previously.

Now I am wide awake having purchased coffee at the gas station we met up at (don’t dis gas station coffee – some of the best coffee is there 🙂 )and came home to prep for the Friends meeting at the Library at 9 am while I made another cup and now as I load up my car with everything I need for the meeting I make the third cup of coffee to go with me while I write this post.

COFFEE

I need the COFFEE as then I need to come home to meet someone here at 11:00 am, then back to town to do bank stuff, post office stuff, pick up dinner stuff, and prep everything I need to leave town tomorrow morning for Fargo for the Pink Concert.  Yes, Fargo like in the movie…and yes, a LOT of Fargo was filmed where I live in Brainerd. 

No we do not talk like that.

Does the movie annoy the crap out of me?  YES.

And that is not the coffee talking.

Do you think I am rambling because of the coffee?  Probably.

In bookish news – I finished *happy dance* the Book Club Book, Reconstructing Amelia.  I think I will post my review today when I get home from said activities. 😀

Its Friday everyone.  Cheers to you!  Whats on your weekend agenda?

Good morning!  January 3 already!  The first two days were a blur of activity. Yesterday I worked 12 1/2 hours for our annual meeting at work.  It was a lot of fun, but yeah a LONG day. 🙂  Today will be a shorter one, I will work until about 1 or 1:30 and then I am going to the Library to assist with the author SKPE in of Lauren Oliver. 

I am so excited – meeting Lauren was awesome!  She is the author of Before I Fall, Deliruim, Pandemonium, Requium, and soon *SQQUUUEEEE!* – Panic!  I have read them all 😀

On the bookish front…. yeah, I am a little behind but hope to make up some reading time this weekend and tonight. 😀