Kiss me I'm Irish

Last night I had just gotten off the phone with my friend and we decided we would meet in 30 minutes at KOBE (Teppanyaki side not the sushi side). She had to 'jump in the showed for a quick rinse' which I was going to translate into I will see you in an Hour.
I hop on the phone with my mom and still continue watching tv. While I am on the phone with her. My hallway sirens are going off. I can hear it but I figured it would stop. Maybe someone was cooking something and opened their doors to let out the smoke (yes the kitchen is kind of far from the door but you never know).
So a few minutes go by and I am like 'mom the sirens are still going off' At this point I am looking for clothes so I can go out. I found these jeans I have not worn in AAAAAAAGES and they are sooooooo cute. Slide them on.... could not for the life of me find a cool scarf.
Sirens are still going off.
My mom was like are you dressed... open the door and see if you smell smoke.
GOOOD IDEA! so I did. YUP I smell ELECTRICAL smoke. Time to evacuate....yes it has only been going off about 10 minutes now.
STILL CANT FIND COOL SCARF! sooo I grabbed an OK scarf, my shoes, my purse and I walk out the door.
I opened the door grabbed my wedding album and walked back out the door (everything else we can replace not the album).
The fire doors in the hallway closed and my mother always taught me to feel the door before you open it. I feel it...nothing... I open it...nothing. So I am outside.
It is Saturday night on St. Patricks day.... not many cars in the parking lot. only 2 of my neighbors 4 cars there so they probably all jumped in another car to go out (they are 20-30ish mongolian couples that are always either working or hanging out).

But my Holiness neighbor's SON had 3 girls smoking out on the balcony. Parents were probably at church. Well some weekend retreat were they save poor mexicans and make them speak in tongues. I DUNNO BUT there are these girls on the balcony just smoking like no big deal.
So i said to them... did you hear the hallway alarm. "yeah we heard it"
(at this point I look around for TV cameras or Ashton Kutcher to come running out and yell how I have been punk`d) NOTHING
( I then realised why I never wore these Jeans as they had to be irregular or something because the waist was sooo loose it would always fall off ...life around your ankles loose and I didnt grab a belt)
so I said "well it kind of smells like smoke in the hallway (pause wait for concern to come across the young faces... but instead it was an OH WE ARE CAUGHT face because they are smoking) "like electrical smoke You might want to becareful.....do you know if they have called the emergency maintaince line?"
Lil brat one picks up her phone and calls boy inside "I think one of your neighbors called 911 man"
Neighbor boy peeks out of the window.
I just drive off. Called 911 ........they said they were on their way to reset the alarms and Hangs up. I am thinking you need to send someone to find the fire!

So I decide I am going to KOBE and off I went.
My friends showed up (LATE as they thought I would be on Muslim Standard Time)and I told them my apartment is on fire. And they were like OHHH yeah I saw all those trucks going down the street. Which building was it... I said MINE... I am the one who called 911... I have my wedding album in the car. (they know in case of emergencies first one out has to grab my wedding album)
So they were like well we need to leave and go save your stuff.
I was like HELL NO ... what can I do put out the fire myself? I am staying here.

My friend was like ....maaaaaaan that is a true muslim....someone who will just walk away from all her stuff and say MashaAllah Alhamdulillah.

Really I was thinking... Man I am hungry and what could I do ... NOTHING. Might as well go out.

I had the BEST TIME...ate myself SILLY....got made fun of THE MOST from Patrick our slice and dice guy because I am allergic to seafood.

When it was all over my friends came home with me to see what we could sift through and salvage.

And the fire trucks were gone. Everything was fine.

Where was Aly during all of this you ask.....calling me every few minutes asking me what is going on and what I am going to do. Like I could do ANYTHING? So I told him ... I am going out to dinner with Jenn.

Barak Obama

I forgot to mention that I went to see Barack Obama a couple of weeks ago. Yup we got a discount on the tickets (mom has connections).

Ok so we waited 2 hours in the chilly weather. Bombarded with people shaking our hands and wanting our vote (little did they know ... I was from the other side of the river and could give a crap about them)

Mom attempted to sneak us in early... but our plans were thwarted by huge bubba sized body gaurds. And fellas with white wires comming out of their ears. HONESTLY that is soooooooo 15 years ago! GET WITH THE TIMES MAN!

So we got our little Decaf mocha latte and cider and waited outside again in the chilly cold weather with all the hopefuls attempting to gain our votes with a handshake.

Aly drove in from Cincinatti right about 10 minutes before it was time to go in. He stood 10 minutes outside and was complaining aobut the cold. I really did want to beat him. I told him how I did not want to hear his mouth because we saved this spot for him and waited for 2 hours!

We get INSIDE. We had a pretty nice spot...nope ...no chairs.....and we wait. Squished. And wait.
AAAAAAAAAND wait. most of us still have our jackets and stuff on. Then ... it starts to get warm. REALLY WARM. Then all of a sudden I have this feeling like I am going to rip my shirt off or else I will die. I get a bit woozy (yes I kept my shirt on... it was ok I had a shirt on underneath it and an undershirt under that). I Started to FAINT! First time in my LIIIIIIFE! I felt like such an old lady. Yeah I have medical stuff I am dealing with but DAAAAANG!
Aly pushed me to this open clearing in front of us... some random woman gave me a half a bottle of water and people all around me we faning me.
Security came up to me and told me I could not stay where I was. I was of course saying Im fine , Im fine and wanted to go back to my very nice spot.
I go back and I am not fine... but I kept telling everyone I was.
Then an older gentleman faints. And everyone starts fanning him.
At this point we hear OBAMA is delayed and they are going to play his speech from last time he was in Louisville. I knew that meant he was at least an HOUR delayed.
I was still really woozy feeling and figured I needed to sit down quick so I said I was going to go find a seat and for mom and Aly to stay there.
They wanted to come with me ... but I did not wait 2 hour in line for us to lose our spot. So I walked around... bought a shirt and some Pins....got some more water and sat on the floor.



So apparently we were close enough that mom and Aly shook his hand. So it was worth the wait in line.
I liked all what he was saying. And he definately has my vote. Aly is still unsure. He wants to hear more from other candidates before he decides who has his vote.
But it was fun. My first political rally. Mom wants to do that more often and wants to join his louisville team or whatever.

All in all it was worth it

why I love UPS

After having a sister in the military for 8 years and half of that time spent deployed overseas. I have come to learn the sneaky tactics of the UPS guy/lady. My sister having nothing to do with her money except spend it ONLINE and no where else to ship it except our house, it was an almost daily event of hide and seek the package left by the UPS person.

I am SURE they have a class on hiding things in PLAIN sight! I had forgotten how good they were. Aly got a letter from Mauritania today and as I was putting the key in the door I noticed the floor mat looked strange and sure enough there was his package hiding right underneath.

I bet the UPS people are great at hiding eggs at easter.

The Fed Ex people I am not a fan... well there is this one guy I see everyday at work. He is ok.
But at home OH MAN they suck!
I havent had a home delivery of DHL but at work I am always chattin with the DHL lady she is ... well ... chatty.

Ok based on my dealings with the delivery people what have we learned?
Buy stock in UPS

FIN