Grumble grumble stick-in-the-mud husband

As you may remember, I took a job last month just long enough to get tickets to Las Vegas booked for their Christmas party next Friday, returning on Saturday. I paid for them when I decided not to take the job. They didn't ask me to, I did it because it was the right thing to do.

So Eric and I have talked on and off about using the tickets because I've never been there and he was driven down the strip during the day once when he was a kid. He doesn't want to go.

I want to go. I looked at the deals. We could stay there pretty cheaply, even at one of the newer hotels. The only show we'd be interested in seeing is Blue Man Group and they're booked.

There's lots of free stuff to see I know we'd enjoy.

He says we'd spend half our time at the airports, crammed into a flight like cattle, flying during a high terror alert time. We saw that on the news last night. The terror alert has been raised to High. He says we'd be throwing even more money away if we went.

I have to admit, I know Las Vegas would be a major target for terrorists. It's the modern equivalent of Sodom or Gomorra. Airlines are a target.

Part of me wonders if Eric and I are going to end up the opposite of my parents. Dad wanted to travel and experience things. Mom wanted to sit in her recliner and stay home.

First Eric decided he can't handle the trip to Kansas. I was so looking forward to seeing all the places on our list. They're all high on my life list of places to see. Five years we've/I've been trying to get us on that vacation to the southwest, here we are thwarted yet again. I'd rather go in Spring. Eric says Summer. That's going to be HOT traveling through a desert in the summer.

Now he won't go to Las Vegas with tickets I lost half a month's wages to buy. I've been putting off Christmas shopping and buying cheap food all month trying to deal with the lack of funds. I wanted to have a little fun after finals, dammit.

Yeah, I should just stay home and work on my Christmas card. Yes. I need to do that.

It doesn't mean I'm not feeling a huge disappointment over this.

grumble grumble grumble.

I'm going to VEGAS!!!

My friend Karen called me and I told her the saga of the tickets. She expressed interest in going if we could transfer the ticket and by the time finickynarcane suggested I ask yeoww, Karen had already been invited. I'm sorry yeoww! If I'd been thinking more clearly, I would have had that brainstorm myself.

Well, at the suggestion of a few of you, I called them. Lo and behold, for $80 I was able to cancel Eric's ticket, transfer the funds to Karen's and change the time of our return flights so we won't run into the crowd I almost worked with!

Whee! Now I need to find a smoke-free hotel for a reasonable price and get them to send a shuttle to the airport for us.


Woo hoo! After I finish finals, I'm going to VEGAS!

University study game thing

I'm participating in a University research project that sounds kind of fun. You don't have to give out any personal information to "play the game."

Someone in fortysomething posted it and what the heck, I'll play.

It's a pyramid thing where you get points for every person who uses your code to sign up. Then you get partial points for everyone they get to sign up.

Supposedly there's a 500 pound prize for the person who gets the most points. I don't even hope to achieve that, but it's always fun to participate in university studies.

If you want to play, just click on this: http://www.lost.eu/