Freaky Friday!! Rants and Raves!!
 

Ok so here we are again and TGIF....

Rave: 75% of my office is out today due to pulling an all nighter last night. So there's 4 of us left here goofing off....

Rave: The weather is supposed to warm up after this week here in NYC! Yay! Temps in the 30s!! 8-)

Rave: I get to sleep in next to my boyfriend this weekend....at least until Super Bowl Sunday!!

Rave: Airline will be on Monday LOL

Rave: Managed to get a $26 a day SUV rental for my trip in April

Rant: It's at the worst airport - Miami

Rant: The flight that I booked 2 weeks ago just dropped by $50.

Rant: Got threatened last night by some woman from Ebay because I didn't get her return in the mail yet. That and 2 people "forgot" to send me their payment....grrr

Rant: Get my AT&T Wireless bill and it's $250 more than it should be...

Rave: Other than that my bills are paid!!

Rave: WooHoo! The airlines just opened up FF seats to Key West for the end of next month!

Rave: I can get my cold freezing self out of South Carolina for free!!

Rave: Cashed in Hyatt Gold Passport points for my accommodations in Key West!!!

Rave: WooHoo this vacation to Key West is FREE!!!

Rave: Frequent flyer miles and Hyatt Gold Passport!!!

Rant: Will miss the Miami Boat Show and the Fodors Naples GTG.

Rant: Why is it that every post entitled "Help!", "Help with Honeymoon", "Honeymoon Questions" "Help with Honeymoon Questions" or something similar is always about Hawaii? Why will they not put Hawaii in the header?

Rant -- it's 2 friggin' degrees here in Chicago!!!
Rave-Vegas in three weeks baby!

Rant: This morning it was 34 below zero and my fax machine didn't work so I had to walk to a copy store to fax it.

Another rant: People who complain about cold weather that's 36 degrees warmer than here!!! Sorry, I couldn't resist!

rave: It warmed up to 15 below 0 this afternoon. I'M NOT KIDDING.

WOW Jor, that is extreme!!! Where do you live?

Rave: we're finally having a Fodorites gathering in Naples, Fla. tomorrow.

Rant: it just started raining and is supposed to rain most of tomorrow. Well at least it's currently 70 degrees (sorry, jor, couldn't resist rubbing it in).

OK Jor, you got me, but where are you so I never go there in January! (Nor would I advise coming here in January!)

I live in Fargo ND. When these temps are shown on national broadcasts some people think they are wind chill temps. They are actual temps. Wind chill is 45 to 50 below.

I look forward to this thread every Friday!
RANT: There will be no traveling in our near future, except to a wedding in the Bay Area in June...maybe. The last 2 years in March we've been in the UK...I'm sad.

RAVE: I'm due in 11 weeks. and Yes, I will be posting this every week until I have my daughter...woohoo! (ok, so its my first baby, and it took us a LONG time...cut me some slack!).

Rave: Holy icepick Batman! Sorry Jor but thank goodness it isn't that cold her! I'm bitching about 55 degree highs!

Rave: I don't live in Fargo!

55 degree highs??? We're on a streak of about 25 days now of below normal temps...supposedly this is the coldest January NYC has seen sinc 1977. Most of this month has not gotten higher than in the 20's!!

Rave: I don't live in Fargo LOL

I'm pathetic, I drove 5 houses to pick up my kids from the bus. (It's currently 9 degrees with wind chill -1. Coming your way New York!

Rant: Superbowl hype.

Rave: Curling up in front of the fire with a nice bottle of merlot.

Rant: It is cool and grey here.

Rave: But cool & grey is still 60 in Florida !!

Rant: I miss NYC :)

Rave: I don't live in Fargo ND.

missjanna, I'm a wimp! Anything under 75 and I turn blue!

Rave: Again that I don't live in Fargo!

Sorry jor!

Rave: Our ailing 15 YO golden retreiver is slowly improving and the vet says it may not be a brain lesion after all but an inner ear lesion. This is good news as the latter is something that can be recovered from. Huge sigh.

Rave: Messages from fodorites expressing good dog thoughts last week. Thanks folks, very uplifting.

Rave: (To make it travel related) Got to take the dog for a car ride today and she didn't puke. She's always loved car trips.

You Go Ani! No slack required.

Rant: It's the midwest, below zero and dogs are barking.....What are people thinking??? Nothing should be outside in this!
Rave: Husband BBQing Jerk Chicken by opening the sliding glass doors quickly!

No rants today, just raves!!

Rave: I live in Canada, and it's warmer than in Fargo ND!!!!!!

Rave: We are having a blizzard in central Alberta today, so we closed at 2 p.m. and went home early to start our weekend in the snow (only 11 below zero ;-) without windchill, with windchill it is a balmy 32 below zero)

Rave: Winter is more than half over :-)) !!!.

Rave: Groundhog Day on Monday - any predictions????

Rave: I really like my job most of the time . . .

Rant: . . . but sometimes the people on my team are such HUGE BABIES

Rave: I'm in major home remodel-mode, can't wait to see the results!

Rave: Survivor All-Stars is on after the SB

Rant/rave: I'm going to work late tonight (tough to work late, but I love getting a lot DONE after everyone leaves)

Rave: There's going to be a big vodka gimlet waiting for me when I get home

Rant: Just saw the projected deficit- How can we have tax cuts??? Isn't this like taking a loan on a maxed out credit card??

Rant: The temp this morning was -7 here!

Rave: School was cancelled! Yeehaw!

OK, sorry I missed it on Freaky Friday. It's Salty Saturday now (reference to the ice on my front steps that no amt. of salt or kitty litter is helping) and I wanted to add mine. Is it sacreligious to add to these lists on Sat. instead of Friday?

Rave: I am planning a hiking trip to Zion and Bryce in March w/my very best hiking friend, and it's our first time in Utah. Tres exciting.

Rant: I have been consumed and obsessed w/that trip all week and have spent too much time online- the kitchen sink is full, husband is complaining about something living inside the fridge (hey, you can clean the fridge out too, buddy), and I've been staying up late at night to get work done = exhaustion.

3) Rant: Why do folks perpetuate the negative threads here? Why not just ignore the negative ones and let them die on the vine?


4) Rave: I am not in Houston, my prior address, for the Superbowl insanity this weekend.

5) Rant: It is 15 degrees (feel like Fargo w/the widn though) and I left the lights on in my husband's car last night so it wouldn't start this a.m. and it won't take a jump. But then he went out inmy car and locked the keys in it in a university parking lot, w/the motor running, so he can't be too mad at me about the stupid light situation. Thank god for AAA.

emd, thanks for the laughs this morning!

I think people perpetuate the negative because sometimes, just sometimes, it is such sport to point out to someone what a bonehead they are being.

Rant: It will probably be cold and grey in London in two weeks.

Rave: It has only warmed up to -9 so far this a.m. so even a rainy day sounds idyllic compared to THIS.

Rave: Weather cancelled school 3 days this week.

Rant: Weather cancelled school 3 days this week--it's nice to have a day off now, but making them up when the weather is warm will be a drag

Rant: I haven't run outside for 3 weeks and am turning into a real wus, I am dreaming about treadmills in my sleep. And my outdoor cat is going stir crazy being indoors.

Rant: Paris Hilton and Jennifer Lopez anything

Rant: I feel like I am watching the same Apprentice show week after week, just the assignment changes.

Rave: The Donald laid it on the line to the girls (notice I didn't say "women")

Rave: Loving the new satellite radio

Rant: Airline showing reruns ALREADY!

Rave: The sun IS actually shining today--It's nice to know it's still out there somewhere :)

I think Freaky Friday doesn't expire until Sunday night at midnight, so...

RAVE: Last night I waited patiently for an older couple to pull out of their parking place, only to have another car whip a U turn and try to grab the space from me. I got the parking place and he got a lecture from a cop who happened to be right there. Sweeeeeeet...how often does THAT happen?

RAVE: Survivor All-Stars starts tonight!

RANT: It's raining AGAIN here in northern Ca, but I can't even complain because the weather is so much worse elsewhere.

I guess due to time difference, you get to watch Superbowl and Survivor All-Stars? Everyone else on Eastern Standard time here is watching Superbowl. I'm still obsessing and planning the trip, like I was on the post on Salty Saturday.
No way a cop showed up to lecture the attempted parking spot-stealer!! That's almost like in Annie Hall when Woodie Allen is having that intellectual conversation w/the less brainy folks behind him in line(I think he is mouthing off on a Bergman film and some deep significance) while in line to go into watch a movie at the theater, and Marshall McCluen (is that right? can't recall it exactly) shows up behind him to beef up and support Woodie's movie-critique to the slobs in line. Why isn't life like that.

RANT: I am staying in Las Vegas one night when I land on the way to hike in Zion the next day in March; I found a $79 rate thru Treasure Island online on their site but my travel companion didn't get back to me in time yesterday to tell me if she in fact wanted to stop in Las Vegas overnight or go straight to Zion instead so we can get up and hike right away the next a.m.- and the rates on line DOUBLED today at Treasure ISland and no other booking sites are offering rooms for nite of March 24!!!! I missed it!!

LOL Marilyn.....that does NOT happen very often, but ain't it poetic justice when it does!?

emd, yes it was Marshal not sure how to spell the last name, great flick for a movie/reader lover.

I don't think the cop lectured him about trying to steal the parking space. It was the illegal U turn, and something about it being right in front of a fire station. The cop said, "Is a parking place worth a $200 fine?" But then he didn't give him a ticket, which did not spoil my satisfaction one bit!

PS It's "McLuhan."

Marylyn :) thanks.
Th media IS the message!

And with that proclamation from cigalachanta, perhaps we should officially close this week's Rant and Rave...

Rant: Stayed at the Hampton Inn in Concord, NH. It is undergoing major renovations which I was not informed about when I made the online reservation or when I followed up with 2 phone calls. Pool and exercise room closed. Workers from the project were housed on both sides of my room and when I complained to the front desk about noise from them after 11 p.m.they did NOTHING!
I am a Hilton Honors member with over 14 stays last year alone. I tried the headquarters and while sympathetic would do nothing about the situation.

Bye-Bye Hilton