Summer's Shenanigans

While my family spent time together in San Diego, exchanged presents and ate good food, I got to spend Christmas alone. I spent 12 hours cleaning my house, I ate two Fig Newtons and some cheese and crackers for my Christmas dinner and stared at the ceiling until I finally fell asleep.

So, how exactly did this happen? Where is my loving boyfriend? Oh, he decided on Christmas morning that he should drive to San Juan because his new surfboard landed today...and that I should stay home and clean the house because we have guests arriving today. It just so happens that Stefans best friend is flying into San Juan on Christmas (late at night) too, so after consulting with his buddies when he was out surfing, he decided that it would be selfish if he drove to San Juan to pick up his surfboard and didn't wait the extra 10 hours to pick up his buddy.

Yes folks, that's right, "selfish". That is the exact word Stefan used.

So, off Stefan goes at 1pm, to make the 2 hour drive to San Juan in order to pick up his new surfboard and then wait in San Juan until Connor and Diannes flight arrives at 12am. Then, Stefan was supposed to transport Connor, Dianna and his precious new surfboard back home by 3am.

Notice that I said "supposed to".

That's because I awoke at 7:30am this morning, alone. No Stefan, no Connor, no Dianne and most importantly, no surfboard (yes, I'm being sarcastic). Now, what would you think if your friends were supposed to be here late last night and they are currently 5 hours late? Yep. They must be dead on the side of the road. Right? Now, normally you would just call said friends and see where the fuck they are, but shortly after Stefan drove off on his valiant mission, my cell phone ran out of batteries. And my phone charger is in the truck that he drove off to San Juan in. (That also left me alone on Christmas, with no food in the house and no phone to call my family to wish them a merry Christmas...rad.) So, I wake up frantic because my boyfriend MUST be dead because there really can't be any other reason why he would be 5 hours late after ditching me on Christmas, I contrive a device to suck the last seconds of juice out of my cell phone and was able to retrieve the following voicemail from Stefan,

"Hey babe, it's 1am and Connor and Diannes flight has arrived safely. Unfortunately my board is stuck in customs, so we're going to spend the night in San Juan and hopefully we'll be back in Rincon, surfing by noon..."

OH. So Stefan spent Christmas at an expensive hotel in the city, had an excellent Christmas dinner at some fancy restaurant, gambled at one of the casinos in San Juan and hung out with his best friend and his wife. Cool. I'm glad to hear that they are going to try and make it home soon so they can go surfing...

Labels: Family, Puerto Rico

I don't care what anyone says, this is elfin' hilarious!

As much as I wanted to be all Scroogy and hate it, elfing Stefan, Kuta, Shawn and myself made me laugh...Click on the picture to see us dance! :)

Thanks for the tip, Michael!

Labels: Family, Fun, Funny, Weird

Stefan and I were shopping at Sams Club in Puerto Rico and I was mesmerized by this bottle of Absolute Vodka.

It's their special gift packaging for the holidays: Absolute Disco. It's designed so you can hang it on your Christmas tree when you finish it...haha. I don't even like vodka all that much (nor do I have a Christmas tree this year), but I stil bought it. Gotta love great marketing! For $14, it looks cool on the bar. ;)

Labels: Holidays

I'm currently in San Diego for the next 6 days, while I conduct a customer service crash training course to get the SD office fully self-sufficient. Being back in San Diego is kind of cool, actually. It's cold (big difference from Puerto Rico) and rainy, which makes me realize that it's actually winter. Any how, whenever I'm back in San Diego, I have a routine:

1. Drive my car really, really fast. I actually like driving and I don't really have a car in Puerto Rico. Even when I do drive in Puerto Rico, it's not fun because there are SO many shitty drivers in Puerto Rico. The 2-lane roads, are really only wide enough for one car, so you are constantly slamming on the brakes and swerving off the road to avoid head on collisions. So hauling ass on the 7-lane wide Interstate 5 in San Diego is fun when I'm in town. :)

2. Eat at Brueggers Bagels. Brueggers Bagels has the best bagels and flavored cream cheese and they make my favorite breakfast and lunch. An onion bagel with light veggie cream cheese and tomatos for breakfast and an Herby Turkey sandwich for lunch. Yum!!

3. Eat sushi. I'm a sushi freak. When Stefan and I lived in California, we would eat sushi 3 times a week (if not more). It really doesn't make sense, but Puerto Rico does not have good sushi. The town we live in doesn't even have a sushi restaurant. There is SO much good fish that could be caught and served in Puerto Rico, but Puerto Ricans prefer everything fried. Yuck. So, when I'm in Cali, I definately have to get my sushi fix.

4. Shop. Clothes shopping is another must, while I'm in San Diego. Finding stuff I like in Puerto Rico is few and far between, when it comes to clothes.

Labels: Traveling