NEW YEAR'S EVE

Jason and I plan on heading to St. Louis for New Years Eve. No one has really told us any plans about meeting up as a group so we decided to experiment a bit by getting a hotel room at the Sheraton Clayton around the Delmar Loop. We have plans to go to Blueberry Hill for the events. Hopefully it will be a fun time since well, it will be just the two of us and neither one of us know what to expect. I've always wanted to go somewhere that involved dressing up a little bit with party favors. St. Louis would not be my top choice but it's the only place to go in this area. That or Evansville, but we just decided to experiment this time.

Last night was insane...

So, we survived the family time. Still one more night to go.
Last night, however...was...INSANE. My parents and I were supposed to meet Jason in Terre Haute, IN (home of Christmas Story, hehe) last night when it started to sleet. I wondered if we should just wait until the next day but none of us were really worried about it. My parents live in Richmond, IN and it takes about 2 hours to drive to Terre Haute. It takes about the same for Jason. Well everything was going somewhat smoothly until we left Indianapolis. Traffic was STOPPED. Not moving. Period. It remained that way for the next 3 or more hours. We were not going ANYWHERE. Anytime it did move (when it actually did) we moved about 5mph. This was all on 70 to Terre Haute. I called Jason and told him to hang tight because he actually arrived at Terre Haute HOURS before we did. The road was covered in a sheet of ice and any acceleration caused the tires to spin. Cars were off the road in random spots (mostly semis) and supposedly there were numerous wrecks but we were in traffic for so long that we never saw them. Jason went ahead and got us all a hotel room but I kid you not, we just could not make it to him. We left about 4pm (IL time) and at 10pm we were still sitting in traffic. We hadn't eaten since lunch, we could not stop somewhere to pee and Terre Haute was still 40 min away at 5mph speed. BUT even though we were stuck in that situation, we were set and prepared. We had filled up the gas tank, there was a blanket in the trunk and we had snacked a little bit before we got to Indy.
Once it looked like we were moving, however, the traffic stopped again. About 1 am it finally got to the point where we were going to have to get our own hotel room several exits down from Jason and he would just have to come my way in the morning and get me so that he could go to work the next day. But due to the travel conditions, everyone had the same idea. Hotels were booked and people were sleeping in the lobbys. The local fast food restaurants had run out of food and it looked like we were going to have to spend the Eve of Christmas eve sleeping in the car. There was no room in the inn. Haha. None of us were able to sleep in the car. We tried. My mom decided that she was going to keep driving us to Terre Haute. It was so close but so hard to get to. We finally made it about 3:30am. My parents wanted to get another room since we were leaving at another time. But the system was on audit so they had to wait until 4:15 am to get the LAST room available. I had to get up at 6:20. I haven't been able to rest since.


Last night was insane.

Facing the in laws...

Well, not my in laws. But Jason's in laws. I am literally at a point where I have no idea what to say or do when it comes to my little sis. Sometimes I could strangle her. The holidays are supposed to be full of good cheer, but give it 10 min and my sis has already ruined the evening. I don't want to get into detail. It will make me angry. But, this is part of our holiday struggle when you have certain types of family members. All I can think about is Christmas Vacation.
Today should be even more of a blast because the Irwin side is coming over. I love seeing my family but I dread the drama that they bring. I think my sister is an Irwin. Hands down.

There is NO way...

That I would live in a place where a spider this size could crawl on my walls. I mean, this is more than a shoe or a rolled up newspaper could take care of. Ugh! Not happening...ABSOLUTELY not. I have no idea how this person was able to remain conscious while taking a picture of it...

I was reading an article on Fark about dinner plate sized spiders and I was like..."come again?"
Now, I've heard of camel spiders but this friggin thing is in this person's HOUSE. *shivers*

Have you ever?

Have you ever eaten at a certain restaurant or ate a certain food and associated it with a certain beverage? For instance, today I had Subway and I wanted a soda to go with it. I associate Pepsi with Subway, Taco Bell and Arby's. Not the healthiest, but I do. Or, at Tequilas I associate margarita with anything I eat. It's just interesting. Sometimes, on a rare occasion, I'll have a beer. It's just weird how tastebuds work.

Holy Tower of Babel!

I have the stomach flu. Actually, I'm in recovery. It wasn't pretty. Now we're waiting for Jason to be affected. If he is. I stayed home from both work and school today trying to recover. I felt fine going to bed last night but around 2am...it was nonstop. Jason said, Obviously...you're staying home. He left early to go buy me magazines, gatorade soup and medicine. I love my hubby. I joked and told him he probably should have stocked up considering. I got home yesterday from Indiana visiting the fam, and all five of my sister's family members had these symptoms. Of course I couldn't resist giving my nieces and nephew a kiss but geez. It sucked.

In other news, Cincinnati Christian University (my alma mater) is on a roll! I'm not placing blame but I'm just saying two news articles these year with questionable incidents:
http://news.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081201/NEWS0107/812010328&s=d&page=2#pluckcomments

Awesome.