Thankful Thursday

Two Thankful Thursdays in a row. I'm turning into a pretty awful blogger. Meh.


This week I'm thankful fooooooor:

1. The Real Salt Lake game.

My company is the main sponsor of RSL, and last week I ended up with 6 free tickets in primo seats. Suh-WEET! We hit Texas Roadhouse before the game, then sat in the new stadium in the fantastic weather. I could tell you more about it, but my friend, DeeAura, already documented the event, and did it much more cleverly and funnily than I would. (Plus, I'm lazy.) Go check it out there, yo. For my part, I'll just include some pictures here that Dee didn't have.


Bronwyn and Michael rock my world.


Jenn and I were only roommates for about 4 months, but she is the bomb dot com.
(Go ahead and deduct 87 cool points for my use of that phrase.)


Once again, Josh and I document how intensely attractive we are.
Mmmm... And I am toootally rocking that double chin.

Ok, really now. Go check out the real post about the game. This way you'll also be able to experience DeeAura's awesomeness firsthand.


2. SYTYCD is back. I'm not into American Idol, Dancing with the Stars, America's Got Talent, or any of the other shows like it, but SYTYCD is one of the highlights of every summer for me. It is the stuff of life. You may remember when I mentioned that I bought a VCR (I'll pause a moment for you to laugh) ... ... (aaaand resume) to record it because Institute fell on the same night. (I'll just answer here because I know you're wondering -- I get free cable with my rent so I'm not gonna pay for a DVR monthly, when I can buy a VCR once for cheap.) Institute is still on Thursdays, so I have big plans to set up my VCR when I get home from work. Do you know what this means, people? My soul will be fed TWICE in one night.


3. Warranties and Extended Warranties. Oh, and my crazy luck, too. I took my car in to have the oil changed a week or so ago, and the guys at Jiffy Lube said that I had the startings of an engine oil leak. I wasn't too worried because I'd purchased an awwwesome extended warranty with CarMax (Go smart me!) and was sure it'd be covered. So, I called good ol' CarMax to see if something like that would be covered, and they said it probably would and to bring it in. That was Monday. Because my work is halfway between CarMax and my home, I decided to drop my car off there after work on Monday so they could get to it first thing on Tuesday. Josh picked me up, and since he had to be up in Salt Lake the following day anyway he volunteered to drop me off at work on Tuesday, then come back to take me back to Salt Lake for my car. (Are you still with me?)

[Insert - me calling Josh 15 times on Tuesday morning and him not waking up, me calling a coworker to come get me, me calling Josh to leave a message saying nevermind but him surprising me by answering pleasantly saying he'll come right over, me calling the coworker to tell them to turn back around, me waiting another 15 minutes for Josh, me nearly falling down the stairs outside my apartment but barely catching myself in my heels and instead flinging my crappy waterbottle which busted open and spewed water everywhere, Josh showing up not even knowing I'd called him 15 times and he was significantly late, me getting over it in the car and trying not to be grumpy about it, then getting to work with no further event - here.]

So then CarMax tells me that the valve cover gasket or something like that needs to be replaced, so they've sent the info to the warranty group, and will hear back from them in a couple of hours and then will perform the work. Well, the warranty people rejected the repair because they said this is still covered under the manufacturer's warranty. So now they had to submit it to the manufacturer for approval. And since it was a manufacturer's warranty, a Nissan dealer has to do the repair, so the car had to be taken to the dealer.

Needless to say, CarMax wasn't sure that all of this would happen before they closed on Tuesday so the CarMax warranty folk paid for me to get a rental car so they wouldn't chance it and leave me without a car. (Awesome people, eh?)

Oh boy, this is turning into a long story.

Blah, blah, blah, Josh gets tied up with picking his mom up from the airport because her flight was delayed and then they're in rush hour traffic, but because I'd already told Enterprise they didn't need to pick me up, I had to find someone else to drive me to the car rental place. I finally get there, they're understaffed and I get stuck with a car that someone had been naughty and just smoked in.

Oh my gosh, this is the most boring story ever. I'm cutting it right now.

Let's just say, thing after thing kept happening, so the car didn't get done on Wednesday either so Enterprise switched me out to a non-smoky-stinky car. Then that car started leaking oil or something so they brought me another car this morning. Somehow in here I realized that I had no idea how I was going to drive myself to CarMax to pick up my car and still go back the 45 miles or so to take the rental back, and no one could really help me because they'd have to drive themselves there, too. I mentioned this to Enterprise this morning, and because of all the trouble I'd had with their cars and they were embarrassed I think, they offered to let me leave the rental an hour away at CarMax and they'd come pick it up for me.

WHEW! That was so long and full of so many details you didn't need to know. I doubt many of you are still reading, but if you are, my gratitude is that what I thought was bad luck, was actually very very good luck. Eeeexcellent.


And now I'm finally done. Forgive me for just wasting ten minutes of your life?