Letter to the President

Dear President Obama,

First of all, congratulations on the new job. But the reason for this letter isn't going to be all praise. I learned yesterday that your pick for Super Bowl XL III is the Steelers. I don't think you know this, but I come from a little place called Washington state. In Washington we have a football team called the Seahawks. You may not know them, that's OK, nobody does. But we were in Super Bowl XL, where we played, you guessed it, the Steelers. We didn't win, but that wasn't my problem. The game was poorly officiated thus causing a team who played poorly to come out victorious. If the Steelers had in fact outplayed the Seahawks (thereby winning), I would not have such a severe of case of animosity towards them. But alas, that was not the case.

I understand you have a very difficult job as president and there will always be many who disagree with you. On this subject, we disagree. Let's try not to make disagreeing a habit, I have other things to worry about.

Sincerely,

Jenny

P.S. Keep up the good work!

My Apologies

Wednesday I recieved a coment, from a fellow who works with "Tide To Go," on my post from 12/17/2008 regarding my quest for finding the "Tide To Go" pen in a mini.

I failed, however, to post the day after Christmas, writing about one particular present from Jeremy. The following picture is from Christmas night 2008 and I am holding the present Jeremy got me.

NOW IN A MINI!!!!

Happy Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday Ryan Rowland-Smith (26)!

Happy Birthday To Me!

I was just going to post the grumpy face picture, but I found the tongue sticking out to be rather funny.

Days of Note

January 20 (yesterday)-Bush was out, Obama was in!

January 24-My 24th birthday

January 26-Ryan Rowland-Smith's 26th birthday

**January 31-7:30 at the Roundtable Pizza in Fed Way followed by drinking at Time Out**

February 1-Jeremy's 27th birthday

February 10-My brother turns 30

February 14-Valentine's Day

OTR: Vacation edition

My vacation to California this past week has inspired this edition of OTR. Some complaints are theme park related.

1. People who don’t pay attention to the line and they have to move up 20 feet because the line moved without them.

2. Disneyland for giving us a schedule (good for January 9th-12th) that said the fireworks show would start at 9 pm. Apparently the fireworks show would not be running until the 18th.

3. Sticky hotel carpets. Oh Kate I know why you wear shoes in hotel rooms!

4. Universal Studios for refurbishing the Jurassic Park ride in January. I was Jurassic pissed when I found out.

5. Angel Stadium for not having an easily accessible drinking fountain or selling bottled water in the gift shop.

6. People who purposefully speed up and then honk at people who are crossing the street (even though they are jay walking).

7. California shuttle bus drivers who drive like 16 year old boys who just watched some sort of fast paced car racing movie.

8. Papercuts.


*On a happy note for my vacation I would like to give the following kudos to:

1. The Disneyland French Market for creating a cheesecake that I actually like.

2. Jeremy for getting me Chinese food at 11:20 pm on a Tuesday.

3. Our tour bus driver, and passengers, for waiting an extra few minutes while I found Paul Newman’s star.

4. The CPK for being so delicious.

5. Our bartender at the movie with the crazy mustache for being funny. His new cologne is called “alcoholic.”

6. Mickey, the shrimp from Bubba Gump Shrimp Co and the cardboard display of Wall-E for the pictures.

7. Virgin America for being a delightful airline even though your food selection leaves something to be desired.

Second batch of pictures

Can you tell I knew when the picture was going to be taken? I posted a second batch of pictures on flickr. After I got done having my picture taken with the shrimp I said "I'll see you later" then we ate at Bubba Gump Shrimp.

M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E

No details. Just photos. Not all photos, just the highlights. Go here.

As Grandpa said in Mexico...

"Who's the joker?"

First let me give a big thank you to my family for telling me on 1/2 there was a message for me on the home phone from 12/29. It was a call from the St. Joseph's Women's Clinic and I apparently had an appointment for 12/30. I will let you soak in the dates now.

So it was too late when I got the message to call the clinic to find out WHY I had the appointment. First thing this morning I called to find out what was going on. Here is a mildly accurate transcription of the conversation, color coded for your convenience.

Women's Clinic
Me

St. Joseph's Women's Clinic this is (can't remember name).
Hi, I had an appointment last week and I just got the message today.
What's your name?
Jennifer Jacobson
Birthdate?
1/24/85 <---Side note, my birthday is in 19 days!
Yes, it was for 12/30.
What was that for?
Just a routine check up to measure your belly and check the heart rate.
For a baby?
Yes.
Um, I'm not pregnant.
Your not?
Not that I know of.
And you are Jennifer Jacobson?
Yes.
Birthday is 1/24/1985?
Yes.
Can you verify the last four of your SSN?
####
Strange. I'm sorry for the mix up, I'll fix this.
Thank you.

My mom asked me how far along I was and I do wish I would have asked the lady at the clinic. And to be clear, I am NOT prego!

TV Infomercials

Watch out Billy Mays, Vince has got the new edge in the infomercial world. Vince first promoted the Sham Wow. His newest promotion is for the Slap Chop (with bonus Graty). Fortunately the entertainment factor of this infomercial has reached new levels.

About 38 seconds in is the best quote I have heard from any informercial (to date). You can find said infomercial on the Slap Chop website or on You Tube.


Update:
My mom just showed me an infomercial from 1994. I bet his wife does like it!