I know. You all Missed my wonderful postings!

Its been a fun past month.

I'll give you the highlights...


1) Went to San Francisco for Planning Forum 2005.

Which is pretty much a place where you learn new and upcoming things in financial planning. Its quite educational and I did learn a lot while I was there. And I got 15 CE credits. YAY. I went to some wonderful restaurants (if you want details, see Tom's Bloginess.)

So, there's the good news. Wanna hear the bad news?

First, I was pre-determined as a TSA Security Search Participant. YAY me. So, since i'm a girl and I was wearing a tank top, they made me go into a closet with 2 other females so one could hold my bags and the other one could pat me down. I was like, alright...I'm wearing a tank top...do you see a weapon sticking out? Yeah, didn't think so. And then they ran a metal detector around my feet. I was wearing flip flops.

The flight to San Francisco is normally about 6 hours long (give or take). Yeah. Not so much. Our flight was supposed to leave at 4:30 est. We get on the plane and it looks as though we're probably gonna leave 5-10 minutes late. Some people take too much time getting on the plane. Boo them. So, we get backed out of the gate at about 4:40 and everything is going well. until the captain comes over the intercom and is like, so, the right engine won't start. WHAT???
So, its not the engine...its the switch that starts the engine. Ok, not as bad. So, at this point, we're blocking the taxiing runway and no planes can get by. We have to get pulled back to the gate. So 30 mins later we get pulled back and then an hour later the thing that was broken is fixed. While it was getting fixed, there was a freaking blizzard that only hit the International Airport. 1.5" in 40 minutes. It went into insta-freeze. About 30 mins after the thing was fixed, we get pushed back from the gate. We get in line. And sit. And sit. And sit. Captain comes over the load speaker and is like, "um, yeah, there are at least 50 planes in front of us that need to go through the de-icer, its gonna be awhile."

So, 2 glasses of room temperature water and a mini bag of pretzels later, we take off at 9:47pm. Yeah, thats right, 12 hours sitting in the same seat. We get to the hotel at 2am CA time (5am NJ time) and I get to sleep at 3am CA time. Yeah, I was up for more than a day. It was rough.

Luckily, the flight home was WAY less evil.

2) I bought a MINI.

Yeah, you read that right. I bought a Cool Blue MINI Cooper S Convertible with black bonnett stripes. Awww yeah. And for those of you who want to see it, you're gonna have to wait until the middle of April. They are still making it in Oxford, England. I am happy. I'll send out a picture when it arrives.

3) I'm going to Colorado tomorrow.

I'm going to Breckenridge for a week with Justin and some of his friends. I guess we'll see if I still remember how to ski. Hopefully I do and will not fall down and die. I will report back on the happy funness when i return.


I hope everyone enjoys the oscars and has a lovely first week of March.