Peggy's Pretty Priceless Passing Points

March 7, 2006
1. I got to work today BEFORE 8:00. This means you-know-where will probably freeze over. Be prepared.
2. So I didn't go to the gym last night and had to do 100 squats. I want to poke my eyes out.
3. I'm eating a croissant and hot chocolate for breakfast this morning. Proud of me, Erica?
4. Let's talk about my hot chocolate saga this morning. I was at the old Starbuck's and first I ordered a tall, but realized I really wanted a grande. (Which I pronouced accidently with a french accent, perplexing the nice lady behind the counter with pink hair and a lip ring.) Do you have to have oddly colored hair and body piercings to work at Starbucks? This falls quite nicely in line with my theory about nail salons and McDonalds, don't you think? But I ride bikes. So they're making my "grande" hot chocolate (with a shot of caramel so it reminds me of my favorite pre-Mormon coffee drink the Moxie Milky Way...remember those, Lise? Man, they were good..) sorry. ANYWAY, they're making my hot chocolate and it comes to $4.78. I handed her a $10 but realized I had a $5. I said, "Wait, I have a $5!" and looked diligently, but remembered I only had a $4 (I bought something that was $5.30 and thought I had .30 but only had like .07 so I just paid with a $10 and got $4 and some change back.) so I had to tell lip-ring friend, "Nevermind, I don't have a $5." So another friend (no lip-ring, but spiky black hair) made my hot chocolate and I was on my way. While getting in the car, my door did that really fun thing it does where it closes on its own right into the middle of my back (because, really, why WOULDN'T I want to start my day swearing?) and I spilled hot chocolate on my shirt. So here I am, with hot chocolate on my shirt. Besides, all of this, I think there was coffee in my hot chocolate. As a long time (well, like 2 years) coffee drinker and an even longer non-coffee drinker, I think I can be sure when I say that I think there was coffee in it. I figure it's Karma because I used to think it was funny to tell Mormons we had rootbeer knowing it was Barqs and had caffeine. I thought I was being SO clever! So the moral of the story is: it's gonna be a day.
5. Dana Reeve has died of lung cancer. How sad!
6. So my cute (extremely frugal husband) bought a new rug for the kitchen floor last night because the old one is all faded and gross. Isn't that nice of him?
7. My sewing machine dilemma continues: it appears everyone has a different opinion; I've not heard two brands mentioned together by any two different people. This leads me to believe that my choice is to buy a super cheap one and then buy a better one later when we can afford it.
8. I'm interested in the Candlebreeze. I hear they're fantastic and that once you have one, you'd die without it. I'm officially in the market for one.
9. I hate going to meetings. They're so BORING!10. I'm taking my croissant. If they don't like it, TOUGH! After all, I'll be gone in 66 days.