A non-celebrity endorsement

I know this sounds like spam, but I in all honesty, I just found the greatest web site. It's www.kayak.com It's a travel web site that is only a search database, so it while it does not sell you tickets directly, it searches all of the search-and-sell sites, AND the individual airlines Web site's prices as well. So--- if it finds you a flight on United, it links you right to the United.com site, where you then buy the ticket. I guess it makes money on your clicks rather than on service charges.

I heart it.


And its got cool features like slider time preference bars so you can limit your flights to certain times AFTER you've seen the whole pot of flights. It even has fun graphs of historical prices of your itinerary over the past several weeks, so you can see if you're buying at a relatively high or low price time.

Anywho- I'm going to be traveling quite a bit for work over the coming months, so I'm excited about this new discovery. However- I am not being paid to rave about this great resources, Sooo... I will end it at that.

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Where have I been all my life?

Oye! I've been assigned jobs and didn't even know it, as I've been sucked into the vortex of looking for a house while simultaneously planning a wedding: a state of mind where no other reality exists!

Here's my tasking from Lisaopolis, which originated in Zimmerhouse... and I'm finally gettin' around to it.

I’d love to tag others, but since the only bloggers I really KNOW, have tagged this to moi, I really can’t. Shucks.

10) Favorites
COLOR: Can’t pick one. green, blue, orange.
FOOD: club sandwiches on toasted white bread rule.
MONTH: July, but not necessarily July in DC.
SONG: If I HAD to, Had, to had to pick one, the only one that consistently makes me happy- as in every SINGLE time I hear it, I want to stop what I’m doing to listen is Dave Mathews Band’s “Crush”
MOVIE: Oh fer Jeeez, I can’ pick just one.
SPORT: Any equestrian sports. Or Cougar Football.
SEASON: Spring- but maybe that’s just because I’m looking forward to it now.
DAY OF THE WEEK: Friday
ICE CREAM FLAVOR: thin mint girl scout cookie from Dryers/Edy’s
TIME OF DAY: 5PM

9) Currents:
MOOD: anxious
CLOTHES: Navy sailor-front pants and a purple sweater
TASTE: like taste in my mouth? Lean Cuisine. Taste as in personal taste? Classic. (duh)
TOENAIL COLOR: hot pink and needing attention.
TIME: almost 3PM
SURROUNDINGS: I could tell you, but then I’d have to kill you.
THOUGHTS: I don’t want to give up blogging, but I realize Ginapalooza is needing some major life support.
WONDERINGS: Is she going to accept our offer??(that we put on a house on Saturday)

8) First:
BEST FRIEND: Elisha T, my neighbor in then-Redmond. We made lots of forts and did lots of plays/puppet shows etc.

KISS: Brian H. I was 16, and way too old for my first kiss, but it was pretty rad.

SCREEN NAME: Ginawsu
PET: Peaches the white rabbit.
PIERCING: Ears. One each.
CRUSH: There was a boy in my 3^rd grade class named Brady that I “went with” for about three hours. I must have had a crush on him, though I remember having absolutely NO control over the creation and subsequent dissolution of the relationship, so I think it was more orchestrated by my (by then) friend Marilyn, who had a major crush on HIS best friend.
HOME LOCATION: Bellevue, WA

7 Lasts:
CIGARETTE: Kappa Delta Senior dance, 1998. My junior year. Had just broken up with long term BF, (see#8, item 2) and discovering this whole new fabulous thing called “Being single and available” which involved learning that yes, in fact, I did have it goin’ ON (see #10, item 4). Got set up with a no-love-connection date and drank copious amounts of Captain Morgan. The last thing I remember was standing in the “smoker” of ATO’s (my date was an AGR- I don’t know what happened to him) and taking drags off of Marlboro Reds like I’d been doing it since childhood.
DRINK: Saturday evening, drowning my sorrows after the WSU/Vandy game.
KISS: this morning, as I was half-sleep walking into the shower, and gallant husband was leaving for work. Hadn’t really opened my eyes yet, so I can’t be 100% certain that it was him.
MOVIE SEEN AT THE MOVIE THEATER: Premonition. I highly recommend NOT seeing it. Very disappointed in Sandy Bollocks.
PHONE CALL: husband.
CD PLAYED: “This I Believe” essays from NPR that Anne got me for Christmas. Been listening in the car.
GIFT RECEIVED: Mom and Dad bought us dinner last night when they were in town.

6:
HAVE YOU EVER DATED ONE OF YOUR BEST FRIENDS? I did have an awkward make-out with Mitch in high school, and we were really good friends-only until then. (it was during the first of many temporary break-ups with #8 item 2) But other than that, no. I’d love to say that I’m currently married to my best friend, but we were way “more than friends” for quite some time before we actually became friends.
BEEN ARRESTED: never
BROKEN THE LAW: probably
SKINNY DIPPED: I think I have, but only with family. Wait… that sounds weird. I’m generally not a fan.
BEEN ON TV: I think I was on a short interview clip on the news when there was a bomb threat in Bellevue across the street from my office. The net result to me was a delay in being able to get to my car to go home. I said as much, and they put it on the damned news…
KISSED SOMEONE YOU DIDN'T KNOW: Yes.

5:
THINGS YOU'VE EATEN TODAY: coffee, string cheese, Lean Cuisine (acorn squash ravioli- my fave), coffee yogurt, two mini Hershey chocolate things from co-workers candy basket on her desk that I have to walk by over and over…
YOU'VE DONE TODAY: got up, drove to work while eating string cheese and drinking coffee, worked, felt bad about not blogging…

YOU CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT: Besides many people, Daphne and the thought of moving into a bigger place soon.
YOU CAN HEAR RIGHT NOW: not much.
YOU DO WHEN YOU GET BORED: Look for houses online.
4:
PLACES YOU'VE BEEN TODAY: my apartment, my car, my office.

3:
PEOPLE YOU CAN TELL ANYTHING TO: Beth, Allison, Husband, but primarily Daphne…

2 Choices:
a. BLACK OR WHITE : black.
b. HOT OR COLD: eh?

1. THING YOU WANT TO DO BEFORE YOU DIE:
Produce little people in my likeness, watch them grow up and do the same. Own a horse. Own a damned house.

Answers

The Book: Everthing Is Illuminated

Yeah, I'm in a book club. It does wonders for the volume of literature and wine I consume on a monthly basis.

Was in Atlanta for a 30 minute layover coming from Miami home to DC. But the DC area was all closed down becuase of "ice" (which never actually materialized). Kind of wished they would have told us that all of the DC airports were closed before we left Miami, as it might have been nice to spend an extra day there with the new fam, but instead we became well aquainted with the Atlanta Airport Hyatt Place hotel. Which we had to pay for ourselves. Hey Delta Airlines, stay classy!

The Clinton Street Baking Company is at 4 Clinton Street (between East Houston & Stanton), New York, NY 10002. D'lish.