how do you live so happily while i am sad and broken down?

I just had the stupidest breakfast ever.

I'm at Midway Airport in Chicago, and I wanted to get something to eat before my flight. The Bar & Grill at the food court seemed the best bet for actual breakfast, because as much as I like Chinese food, 10 am is a bit early for General Tso's chicken. So I looked over their (extremely) limited menu, and settled on the "3 Buttermilk Pancakes." When I ordered, the woman asked me if I wanted 1,2, or 3, which surprised me because the menu said 3, but I was pleased to be able to order less so I asked for 2.

Then they came out.

When I say these pancakes were the size of my head, you will think I'm exaggerating but trust me I am not. They were on a plate that was 10 inches, and they were hanging off the edge. They were about an inch thick. AND THERE WERE TWO OF THEM. No one, I mean no one, needs that much to eat in one meal. I'm pretty sure if you counted the calories it would have sustained you for the whole day.

When strangers stop to comment on your food, you have too much food.

So I'm sitting there, actually feeling humiliated (I have enough weight issues, I don't need to be seen as the piggy girl with the monster pancakes) and angry (so much waste!) I don't understand why the woman wouldn't have at least asked me if I'd had them before, and if I said no, have explained their size. What makes me even angrier is that I know they do this to be perceived as being of great value. That is why our portions are so out of control in this country; we've been trained to to value quantity over quality. And these pancakes were not good. I ate one corner of them, and then threw over 3/4's of them into the trash. Again, what a waste. Ugh.

I had planned to use my pre-boarding time to write up a post, but I didn't think it would be about that. Let's see, other things about my week:

• I've been on a client site about an hour outside of Chicago.


• I didn't leave the building I was in from Sunday to Wednesday, when I walked over to the building next door to watch a free movie.


• Limitless was okay, I give it a B-. Points up for Bradley Cooper's pretty blue eyes, points down for gore.


• This site had only buffet dining. The food is excellent but I have eaten way too much this week. Although nothing I had touches the Pancake Excess above, so I guess that's something.


• I didn't work out at all, because I was tired and afraid I'd get dizzy on the treadmill, but mostly because I didn't want to.


• I'm 3/4 the way through Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. I'll probably finish it on the ride home.


• I had made a huge list of things to do whilst on site this week, and I got through most of them.


• I bought $30 of coloring books off of Amazon last night. Most of them were Christmas gifts for my cousin's kids, but a couple of them were for me, not gonna lie. Go to Amazon and search for Dover Coloring Books and you'll see why.


• I haven't been sleeping enough this week. Like last night, when I stayed up til 1:30 even though I knew I needed to wake up at 7. Once again, I fail at being sensible.

One of the things I had on my to-do list was to explore Spotify. So far my judgement is, "That's cool, but it doesn't live up to the hype." Maybe I'm missing something, but their application isn't terribly user friendly. Icons with no explanation of what they do, the sync from my iPod duplicated, it doesn't sync up smart playlists (which is 75% of what I use,) and so far as I can see, it doesn't do anything Grooveshark doesn't do, except link up to Facebook. To be fair, I haven't linked mine up to Facebook, so maybe that's where all the fun is.

It's making me feel like maybe I'm getting old, because I don't see the big deal with it or with Google+. I guess if you use a web cam a lot, G+ would be more. Right now, it's just a social network with very little of my friends on it which is just... not fun. Facebook is fun. Also, I am grumpy at Google's lack of innovation recently... Buzz=Twitter, +=Facebook, Android=iPhone. They aren't coming up with anything NEW. Except for Google Wave, which, well... that didn't work out so well.

See? I feel like I'm yelling at kids to get off my lawn. Which should be mowed when I get home, so that's a plus.

I just realized last night that I haven't updated since December 10th. Which is silly, because I read my flist just about every day, so it's not like I haven't been around.

Let's see. I went to Vancouver last week, which was pretty dull because I didn't do anything except go to the mall across the street from my hotel and take a completely pointless walk to see a building that's being built for the Olympics. It looked like a building. It was very exciting. Oh, and I also saw a sign for a "Thrift Shop and Mental Health Library" which I thought was an odd combo.

Then on Friday the 21st I flew home from Vancouver via Chicago, which meant delay, delay, delay. I knew when I booked it that it wouldn't be fun, but the fare was $800 cheaper so I didn't have much choice. What was supposed to be a 12 hour travel day (bad enough) turned into a nearly 19 hour one, and I didn't get home til 3am Saturday morning. I had to be back at the airport by 2pm, so that was a short time at home. Luckily, I'd set everything out so all I had to do was swap stuff out.

I took two suitcases home, and unfortunately Delta decided to hang on to the one that had all my Christmas presents, which I thought was rather sucky of them. They didn't get it to Fayetteville til Sunday at like, 2pm, which was not good because we were having our Christmas that day in Springfield, which is almost 3 hours away. My sister's friend/wannabe-boyfriend/whatever was kind enough to go get and drive it all the way up, so that I'd have the gifts in time, so Christmas was saved at the last minute!

So that's pretty much what I've been up to! Now it's just hanging out with the family for a few more days. I'm putting up some of our bowling pictures over on my facebook, so if you need a good laugh, they're here. We accidentally went to a Christian bowling alley, which I was unaware was an option.

Dear Delta,

Get my luggage here now, thxvmuchyoufuckwads.

Never mind the fact that you managed to misplace my luggage on a DIRECT CONNECTION for which I checked in almost TWO HOURS in advance.

Really, forget all that. Also forget that your little baggage agent told me that my luggage would be delivered around 6 AM and would ABSOLUTELY be here by noon.

I have to leave for my next flight by 2:30, and it'd be a lot easier if my luggage were, you know, HERE.

ETA: Apparently they're too inept to actually deliver said luggage, so I'm off to the airport to pick it up. Anyone want to take bets on it actually being there?