i am ready to leave work this afternoon and walk outside and am ready to go to my car when i realize that my car is not there.

my heart took a swim into my stomach.

they booted and towed my car!

fuck!

i can't believe what a fucking looser i am. i really didn't think they would do it.

pay your parking tickets, people.

hee hee...my mom says i make mashed potatoes with boys heads. it's so cute....you have to imagine a little round woman with a thick polish accent yell at me when i'm on the phone....."Yvonna, why are you make mashed potato in his head!?!?!?

no mom, he was baked long before he was mashed....hee hee

I got a ticket and am on the plane. they upgraded me to first class for free!! I totally got the hook up. i'll be eating filet mignon for dinner and drinking champagne, peaches! good bye, everyone!

I wrote this on my phone so excuse the speeling and grammar.

so no, I'm not in paris yet. because of the storm everything is still jacked up. I get to the airport yesterday to get paper tickets (us stand by people have to get boarding passes when flying international ahead of time) and its about 2:30 pm. the agent tells me that the six o'clock flight that I was planning to take is not going to philly anymore. philly is backed up for days because of the ice from the storm andthey only have 8 gates that are working. WTF! she tells me that the 3pm is delayed till 4:15 and I should try to catch that. I didn't have anything with me yet. I hadn't gone home from work yet and so I had to haul ass back to tonawanda to get my luggage and faben. we get back to the airport and get through security and to the gate on time. when they begin boarding I get a glimmer of hope because I hear them saying that there are only 28 passangers (its a small 37 seat plane). so I'm thinking I'm golden when the agent tells me that the flight is weight restricted and they'll only be taking 30. unfortunately there were a few REAL passangers on the standby list and so a couple of suits get on instead of me. so now I'm sitting at the airport thinking what the fuck do I do. there are no more flight to philly. do I go home or do I go somewhere else to try to get to philly. as I'm sitting there the agent makes an announcement saying that anyone who is going to philly needs to go to the ticket counter because ther are NO seats to philly FOR THE NEXT FIVE DAYS!!

I was like wtf? so I figure I should go to bwi and maybe take a train to philly. the agent put us up in first class for free. usually I have to pay $20 but I guess he was feeling generous. good thing he did. I got placed there with a group of hotshots who were desperate to get to philly. they all started making phone calls and had a limo waiting to pick them up at the airport. the invited me and faben to come along. I said that I cannot afford a limo, but they said that its all covered. so we got a free luxury ride to philly and arrived at about 10:20. the paris flight left at 9:37.

so my mom was able to book a hotel for us with her holiday inn points. I was surprised that they let her do it on such a short notice. but we once again lucked out cuz every single hotel in the area was booked and the ones that weren't were $200 a night. I was able to get a 2pm check out today , so we will be packing up soon and heading back to the airport. I wanted to go to the city and do some stuff, butits 5 degrees here so it won't be happening.

if I don't get on that flight tonight, I will be coming home.

i'll keep you guys updated.

i hate the fact that so many of the people i know read this journal, because i am now not able to write all that i would like. i have stuff that i'd like to share, but i can't. (and no, its not about anyone other than i, tony!)

i do wish i could keep my mouth shut sometimes!

this is what I get for my valentines day.

I finally got a haircut. its been a year and a half. last time I got it cut was way back in oct 05'. I think there was a post about that disaster, but no pictures. I wanted a new cut because 1. it was so limp and boring and sloppy and 2. I wanted a stylish cut for paris.

so here it is!
btw, these pics looked a lot brighter on my phone, so i'm sorry they're so dark here.

and as you can also see, that i have NOT made my bed.

here is faben's new piece, which she refuses to post herself and which i had to steal.

you know how your friends always say that they are SO sorry that theyve not been able to hang out, but that they've been so tied up with work, kids, projects, etc that they have not had a free moment, to call, write, email or visit you?

well, YVONNE, they lied.

as busy as they appear to be, they still manage to see all of their other friends, family, coworkers, neighbors etc. they say this to you, YVONNE, because in reality they don't really like you all that much and don't really have any desire to be around you, because...well....youre rather annoying. but you already knew this, right?

who ever thought that allowing roswell employees to pay for purchases bought at the gift shop by payroll deduction was a good idea, was crazy.
you can apparently purchase $200 worth of stuff and have it withdrawn from your paycheck in 4 payments.

this would not be a problem had they not had a gift shop full of vera bradley bags and accessories. tons and tons of different kinds of bags. all shapes and sizes.

i thought it would be nice if i had a new bag for paris.



and then i saw the matching scarf and thought about how nice it would look with my new purse. i would look like a travel goddess......



but only if i had a matching watch....



and this cute pair of earings.



and $160 dollars later, all i can think about is how cute my travel outfit will look next week when i sit my ass in the cushy, first class seat to paris!!!