Bon Jovi

Last night the hubs and I went to the Bon Jovi concert here in Seattle. What can I say, he ROCKED it! He sang songs from his over 27 year career. I love it when artists do that. The crowd was really involved and singing along. The video screens were great too.

Although the band was in Honolulu earlier this month, as announced at the concert last night, Seattle is the kickoff for his "The Circle" tour. Apparently JBJ keeps a condo here in town too.

Our friend has a job working concerts at the Key Arena and Jon Bon Jovi gave tickets to the employees. Since he was working the concert we bought the tickets from him for $20. We were in the nosebleed section (my crackberry was zoomed as far as it would go for the above photo) but it was still great. No luck getting backstage after the concert though.

All of the video screens and lighting hanging from the ceiling was the heaviest the Key Arena has ever had. There were no guys in the rigging but was all run remotely. JBJ was wearing a tracking device that would allow a spotlight to follow him whereever he went on stage. There were large video screens that would be moved around to create one large screen or sevel smaller screens.

Our dog is named Bon Jovi. He is a rescue and came with the name. We never changed it but what a great namesake I think!



Back to the real world of work tomorrow.

Olympic Fever

Do you follow the Olympic games? I try to but working full time I can't always watch the events I would like. I live just north of Seattle and about three hours south of Vancouver BC. Every morning when I am on my way to work the traffic report now includes an update for border wait times. On average at 7:00 in the morning? Ten minutes. WOW!

We have a few local peeps who have already won medals such as Apollo Ohno, JR Celski. In fact, Apollo is tied with Bonnie Blair for most medals one by a US winter Olympian. Both speed skaters from Federal Way. There are several members of the US Ski team from our great state of Washington as well.

The US is in second in the medal count race with a total of 8. Germany is leading with 9 and in third place is France with 7. Canada, the host country is in fourth place with 5.

Catch all your updates here.

Happy Hearts Day

Just a quick note to say happy Valentine's day. I hope you spend it in a wonderful way.






Also, pop on over to JunkDreams for a chance to win in her drawing and to see all the lovely items she creates.

Lastly, I am about ready to make red velvet cupcakes from this recipe that has served me well. Headed to a Valentine's Day tea party.

Steamrats in Georgetown

Sunday we met up with a bunch of the Steamrats for a photo shoot to imortalize one of the rats rayguns he makes. The Georgetown area of south Seattle is old and has great atmosphere. The Rainier Brewing company got its start here.

Here is the hubs with one of the rayguns. I don't know the official name of said blaster. Could it possibly be a custom pneumatic aether rifle?

Darwin's Angels?

Fresh off the boat and ready for action!

Our friend makes rayguns out of junk he finds at the thrift store. We had a great time running around Geargetown taking photos.

Taco Del Mar - The Saga Continues

This morning as I was checking a joint email account the hubs and I have set up for communication with the kids schools etc. I found this apology email. The hubs had emailed the corporate office of Taco Del Mar and apparently they sent our email address on to the owner that I had dealings with. I have copied and pasted it precisely as it was written. I knew this guy was hard to understand in person but please.

hi karen &chris

am mike personaly apology from my heart what ever hapen from me about over charge by employe and that employe no more work on taco del mar. and also refund your rest $12.35 to cover your damage you can see this with couple day and again i am very sorry about that and apology again .please call me if any thing else ican do for you thank you mike

He also left me a voicemail yesterday essentially stating the same thing. This is the "face" of Taco Del Mar. I have no words.

I Want My Two Dollars!

Remember that movie from the 80's with John Cusak called Better Off Dead where the paperboy follows the main character around yelling he wants his two dollars? Well, I felt like that paperboy and I have been been vindicated.

Sunday night the hubs and I went to our local Taco Del Mar for dinner. This is a restaurant my husband loves and there is a franchise really close to us. We have had problems with them in the past for charging us for the wrong items and making the wrong food. This time I discovered $2 more than my receipt came out of my checking account.

When I called the store to ask them about it I was all but accused of lying. I spoke to the owner who was completely rude and unprofessional (as were all the employees I encountered both in person and on the phone) and finally went in tonight to get my refund. Apparently the owner ran it through my credit card and forgot to call and let me know. I have a copy of that receipt as well as a copy of the original receipt I signed with SOMEONE ELSE'S HANDWRITING ADDING A $2 TIP TO MY RECEIPT AFTER I SIGNED IT!

It's not really about the $2. It's about the fact that I had money stolen from me. In fact, there were several other receitps in the stack that looked like they had tips written in the same handwriting.

Taco Del Mar is filing for bankruptcy. Interesting.

February Goals

Onward to February where we have a few plans already. A Steampunk tea and dinner with the hubs at the Melting Pot both for Valentine's day.

Finances

• Income $4135
• Loan Payments $735.43
• CC Payments $572.42 (pay off card number two)
• Bills $2044.06
• Groveries $200
• Gas $280
• Mad Money $254 ($56 for coffee)

Health

• Walk 4 times
• Wii Fit 8 times
• 30 Day Shred 8 times
• Track food and water intake throuh WW site

Personal

• Declutter bags in bedroom
• Go through my side of closet
• Make/buy one Steampunk item
• Complete one condo project

And that's all folks!