If there's one thing I appreciate about my job, it's the fact that I get every Federal holiday off... PAID! :) My weekend was quite chill, but still enjoyable. It consisted of a small family "kids-only" barbecue & kick-it at Ben's (the bf's brother) on Saturday, followed by a Rugrats marathon at my house the following day. We ended up chillin' at home all afternoon to the point that we got too lazy to drive down to the Marina for some fireworks. Oh well -- heheh.
So we found out that we are very much disliked by friends. The basis? "Flaking out" on the Las Vegas trip. I understand what they're feeling, but it wasn't like we decided to just not go. We had to not go. See, Mike already canceled about three weeks in advance because he had a speeding ticket to pay for in Santa Clarita (LA area) that week, but I was still going despite having to report to work Friday morning. Then, a week before his court date, we found out that the registered owner (or insured) had to also appear in court. That's when I had to cancel. "/ I understood the consequences of the situation, but I had no choice. Well, I still had the rest of that week off since I've already requested it for Las Vegas, and we didn't want to waste it! Since my brother and his family were already in LA, we decied we would just meet up with them. Because our plane tickets to LV were nonrefundable, it only made sense to use it elsewhere. Monday evening, Mike and I flew to Orange County, and were picked up by my brother. I tweeted about it since it was nothing to hide, and knew all along that it might have been taken the wrong way. It did. Hah. What we didn't see coming though was how much friends would not understand the situation. Anaheim is a short drive to LA, which is where we needed to be. Had we gone to LV, itinerary would have been LV Wednesday night, LA Thursday morning, home that friday-- our friends were in LV Wed-Sat. Needless to say, it all turned out to be a mess. At least I got the best out of my vacay days. Mike is quite livid with this nonsense.
I did however got away with just working from home on Friday since my manager had an emergency Thursday. E-mailing three reports from a network away from work is quite a task! Hah.
Ohhh but the best part of that crazy week though?! World of Color live! Enough said.