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Demmit the tour is full!

Yesterday I mentioned that I had hoped for the tour of Italy in my “boredom” blog.

Today I got a letter saying the tour is full. Of course it is – just my luck. So, I guess I’m back to the drawing board to see if I can figure out how to do it on my own. I have the backpack, I have the boots – but do I have the money? Do I want to do this by myself?

The answer is yeah, I can do this by myself – it’s just going to be a problem of money. The tour group advantage is that it’s a bit cheaper (bulk discount). The advantage of going it alone – I can see what I want to see, wander where I want to wander, and for as long as I want in wherever I am. This means none of those 15 minutes dash into the museum, dash out of the museum hurriedly things. If I want to stay for 4 hours, I can (if they’re open). So, it’s a matter of refiguring the cost and the actual trek.

As an alternative, I could go to Greece and go sailing… the sun… the Med… Greek food (seriously if I was a God – I would wonder between this and chinese food which is better)… dark haired, lovely tanned greek men with the uni-brow… Ugh… on second thought….

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Boredom….

Not alot to blog about today. Just random stuff so if it’s a jumbled mess, my apologies.

1) Dog sitting…. I’m looking for someone to watch my pup in mid March. Anyone interested? I want to go to Italy between about the 12 or 13 of March (over my birthday which is the 16th) until about the 25th/26th. The thought is my birthday n Italy and Easter in vatican city. Yep – it’d be the required pilgrimage. If you’re interested, let me know.

2) What a good Daughter am I?!? I’m such a good daughter that my dad (who has no clue about technology) now has a new laptop with all the bells and whistles – that he truly doesn’t need. No, not really. This is the man who called me up to ask how to use a cell phone. Then called me up later to have me teach him how to use his digital camera (and later from the place to get them developed to figure out where to put the sd card in the machine). When I asked him if he wanted a laptop or a desktop, he said well, what’s the difference? *head in hands* This means that for the next 5 weeks, he’ll have a new toy, call me every day and bug me about how to use it. I’ll have the snot annoyed out of me, wonder why I ever did it, and feel like I should just take it, pack it up and send it back to Dell. Oh and on a side note – I’m such a good daughter that I used my once a year employee discount to get him not just a “good” computer – I got him a great computer – for 500 cheaper than what the computer stores and dell were quoting him. Go ahead and say it – really…. ~Rose, what were you thinking?!? Yeah.. ok. Thanks.

3) Crash landing at Heathrow airport. I saw footage of this on the news tonight. all 130 something passengers got out with 17 minor scrapes but no one was hospitalized. Ok seriously – if I have to be in a plane crash, this is the one I want to be in – the one where everyone lives, the crew does everything right to evacuate the plane, there’s no explosion – and well, you now have a fabulous story to tell to the kidlings. Guess the Devil’s dice game got lost that round – huh?

4)Cool Photo Op – There’s a protester in Rome who put about a half a million of those plastic bouncy balls (think the mcd’s playground balls) down the spanish steps in protest. Go read the article at:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22684229/

and check out the pictures. It’s beautiful isn’t it? Gray cloudy sky, gray steps…. and brilliant rainbow colored balls bouncing their way down the steps. Gosh, I wish I was there with a camera!

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Never EVER trust the color on the box…

I already knew this, but I thought I’d mention it again – just in passing.

NEVER EVER trust the color on the box….

because it’s not going to turn out that way. It *might* be close, but usually um.. not so much.

So, what brought this topic up? Over the weekend, I bought some hair color – yeah.. you know how it goes. I was bored, and decided what the hell.

So, the color on the box was a medium to dark sort of red. You could even call it auburn.

The color when the hair was done? Ugh. Violet with a red cast in bright light, but so dark it’s almost black at the ends. No, it’s not bad, and yes, it’ll be fine (so says I who has had my hair black, blue, and almost florescent purple). It’s just darker than my normal hair color. I’m sure I’ll take some pictures in the future and put them up. In the meantime, listen to the girl who says….

Never Ever trust the color on the box.

Oh – did I mention that (after checking the box) the color number was 6.66? Could be a sign… if you believe in them….But… then… maybe… it’s some sort of sweet poetic justice.

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