The last time I went to the starbucks near my work, a long receipt printed up, offering a free beverage in exchange for filling out an online survey. I happily obliged, and completed the survey, using my best artistic license to describe my experiences at this Starbucks.

Today, I took the coupon code, good for a free beverage, over to the starbucks. I asked the kind barista how the deal worked, and she read the fine print and said "basically anything you want."

I rambled off random things until my mind cleared of coffee house trivia. My order ended up being:

A Venti, Mocha Frappuchino extra caramel with an extra shot of espresso poured in...not blended... topped with light chocolate whipped creme with both chocolate and caramel drizzles on the top.

I don't go into starbucks often...I prefer tea and I have loads at my desk, so I was suprised when the girl didn't ask my name. I knew her name: Mikala, because she is a pretty girl who unforgettably sings loudly as she works and has a smile that lights up a room, but I couldn't believe she had remembered my name from months ago, when last I saw her at the *bucks.

When I picked up my monstrous and mind-expanding beverage, I checked to see what she had put as my name.

I smiled as I left the store, because it read "HEART ATTACK."

Tags: random, starbucks, sugary caffeine bomb

This afternoon I leave for a ten day vacation to Munich Germany and surrounding area.
I'll meet Bonnie over there, as she's already been vacationing with her mother in Scotland for a week.

This will likely be the longest, most extravegant vacation of the decade for me...and I shall enjoy the heck out of it.

Also, I'll be taking thousands of pictures :-)

Tags: germany travel
Current Location: SBP
Current Mood: excited
Current Music: Puls Radio

Whoever says we aren't magically connected is wrong.
I have felt strange for a few days.
I knew something was wrong, and couldn't figure out what it was.
Then I learned of friends in need, in pain, in trouble.

Will someone please invent an iPhone app that locates the source of my magical connection empathy and point it out on a map? I'd appreciate it.

Leave one memory that you and I had together. It doesn't matter if you knew me a little or a lot, anything you remember. Don't send a message, leave a comment here. Next, re-post this in your LJ and see how many people leave a memory about you.
I'm looking forward to the responses!

Tags: meme

Can I take a moment of your time to share a couple of amazing pictures with you?

Here's the first one:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/snowdeal/1811556122/
Take a good look at this kid...and his hand.

The second picture is also of him:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/snowdeal/92358/

We are miracles.

Tags: miracles
Current Location: Cube
Current Mood: touched
Current Music: The Hum of Flourescent lighting

This week has been one of the toughest ever for me.
I won't go into details...that's not for this journal.

My situation has made me appreciate this modern world so very much. I have solace in information and community that generations before have not had. Sometimes a human _needs_ to connect...to not be alone.

The encapsulation of this idea came when a person I've never met in person wrote in an email:
"No prob. I know how it feels."

and meant it.

To the writer of that email, who will never read this...Thank you.

Tags: connection tribulation life internet tec

If you read this, if your eyes are passing over this right now, even if we don't speak often, please post a comment with a memory of you and me. It can be anything you want -- good or bad. When you're finished,post this little paragraph on your blog and be surprised (or mortified)about what people remember about you. Or, if you don't want to post it, but want a memory from me, say so at the end of your comment and I'll reply with one. But consider posting. It's fun to see what comes up.

Things I never thought I needed, but am so happy to have found:

http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.1948

Tags: electronic fat reducing sauna pants
Current Location: work
Current Mood: curious

My mom alwasy said that a gentleman should always carry cash and a handkerchief. I have ever since.
Things I carry that most people don't:
Handkerchief, Cash, Knife, Lipbalm, Atomizer with my cologne in it, Ibuprophen.

Things I carry that others probably do:
Keys, Wallet, Cell phone, a pen, a little booklet for notes.

Weird stuff I have on me all the time:
Razor, needle and thread, secret stash of cash, nail clippers, tiny phillips head and regular screwdrivers, a LED flashlight, my grandfather's dogtag, a pouch with 10 golden US $1 coins in it.

I have so much stuff in my pants (heh) that I "count" to make sure I have my standard 13 items with me:

Front Left pocket:
1. ID Wallet
2. Kleenex
3. Cell phone
Front Right pocket:
4. Keys
5. Cash holder (holds the ibuprophen, atomizer and nail clippers too)
6. Pouch with 10 $1 coins
Tiny jeans pocket
7. Lip Balm
8. Tiny knife/tool
Back Right Pocket
9. Pocketknife
10. Tiny paper booklet
Back Left Pocket
11. Handkerchief
12. Comb
13. Pen

Dude...I think I'm obsessive compulsive. I need a purse.

Tags: things carried, writer's block

So, I got a flu/cold sick in SF somehow...so sick that I couldn't make it to work, couldn't fly to Tultapec with the best people I know for the best vacation of my life, and could barely keep up the strength to like...breathe.

Funny story: On Tuesday night, I was in serious sick pathetic mode, and coughing, so Bon and I went and got me a Jamba Juice (Strawberry Something) and some Robitussin. I was driking the Jamba and then took a standard (non orbital) amount of Robitussin, when my stomach started to HURT.

I ran upstairs, started puking up the Jamba and Robitussin cocktail so hard that I bit my tongue really bad.

1) Headache with total nose congestion...couldn't breathe out the nose.
2) Vomiting cherry and Strawberry combination uber tummy-smoothie...couldn't breathe out the mouth.
3) Bleeding from the face while trying to catch breaths in between purges.

FOR THE WIN!

It says something strange about me that at the time, I thought only two things:
"This is hilariously coincidental."
"My kingdom for my camera."

Tags: cursed sick blood strawberry cherry robi
Current Location: work
Current Mood: sick