Eating Instructions

I was in a wedding this past weekend in Ohio. This post is not about the wedding. It's about the pretzels I received on my flight back yesterday. I wasn't hungry at the time, so I stuck the pretzels in my purse.

As I was sitting at my desk today at work, I remembered the pretzels and pulled them out. As I was opening the package, this is what I read:

HOW TO EAT
GOURMET
PRETZELS
ON A LOW-FARE AIRLINE.
(SEE BACK FOR COMPLETE DETAILS)

EATING INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Think about our wonderful low fairs at airtran.com as you open packet.
2. Place a pretzel in mouth. With each crunch, be reminded of our low fares.
3. As you swallow, remember again just how low the fares are.
4. Repeat until pretzel packet is empty.
5. Keep empty packet to remind yourself to book at airtran.com for our lowest fares and no booking fees.

Wow. I think their attempt at being quirky and funny to keep customers loyal fell a little short, but I give 'em props. And if their pretzel packages and low fares don't keep customers coming back, maybe the pretzels themselves will. They were pretty tasty.

Blog in Bullets

I always come up with ideas for blog topics while I'm at work or driving or at work #2 or playing soccer or playing MarioKart Wii....wait, no, not while playing MarioKart...that's pure focus. 

But lately I haven't had the energy or the desire to sit down and write, and I have an anal obsession with order and chronology, so these posts tend to stay in my brain or deleted as drafts as I decide it's "too late" to post. 

Here are topics I've started or thought of starting:

• Pulling off two surprise parties in one month. (That would have been a good one too... expression pictures and all)
• Trip to NYC for some Broadway with the boyfriends (and the relevance of the show we saw with the class I was teaching)
• My love for pesto and pondering of the ingredients only to be disappointed at how easy it is to learn these things. Wikipedia takes away the magical creative thoughts as to what the deliciousness of pesto could possibly be. 
• Sister's visit to DC with the new boyfriend.
• My stellar ability of not letting guys that I'm interested in know that I'm interested in them. Rather, I go to such lengths to make them think I'm not interested so as to protect myself.
• My excitement about grad school and my amazingly cool future classmates. (And the ridiculousness that some of them have already started calling me the social chair. Okay, maybe I sort of helped organize a happy hour, and set up the facebook group, and have been emailing people to figure out where they live...and have gotten an email from the current social chair...whatever...)
• The bittersweet feeling about leaving my current job....oh wait, I think I already wrote that one...
• Booking a flight to California for a vacation between the end of work and the start of school for one last hurrah (definitely potential for a future post)
• My bridesmaid's dress saga

Actually that last one will be written. The post hasn't been written yet because it is not yet finished (I'm actually talking about the saga *and* the dress), and I did not want to scare the bride...I hope she doesn't read this.... the wedding is Saturday...

Maybe some of those could eventually be posts...I just need to get over my brain and convince myself that it's *okay* to write and post things out of order...

breathe...it's okay....*shakes...twitches...*