Back to life, back to reality

Well, it's the second day back after a fabulous week of skiing over spring break last week. Luckily, work is not too crazy, so I can sneak away for a quick post. Let's see, how to summarize vacation? We got off to a rocky start because of our continuing bad luggage karma. We flew to Denver, but somehow, one of our ski bags flew to Steamboat Springs, and we didn't get it back until Tuesday. Of course I complained, and we got reimbursed 100% for A's ski rental and 50% for some gear that all four of us had to buy. Never fear, I will continue my complaints until I get reimbursed for the 50% balance for the gear. The vacation itself was great. We went with some friends of ours and 3 of their 4 kids (baby stayed home with grandma) and had an awesome time. And I'm not just saying that in case they read this (they don't know I blog).

H and T did great in ski school, and we skied 2 days with them ourselves. They're both skiing easy black runs--they will easily be outskiing me soon (not that it's hard to do!). We also hit the slalom race course, halfpipe and terrain park. We all medaled on the Nastar course--the boys got silvers and the girls got bronze. Of course, the only reason I even medaled is because I upped my age a little to get into a more favorable age bracket. Me, competitive? Unfortunately H inherited this from me, because she was majorly po'd that she missed the silver by 1 second, especially since T technically missed some gates on the course (but we cut him some slack--after all, he is only 4!).

We have bad luggage karma, but our friends have bad flight karma, which kicked in on our return flight--the plane had some mechanical issues and we were 3 hours delayed. But we all made it back in one piece and even all our bags showed up!

First order of business upon return to the office yesterday was to catch up on work. Second order of business was to catch up on all my TV shows that I missed last week (well, maybe I mixed up the order, but who knows, my boss may be reading this). One of my favorite websites is great for this: www.televisionwithoutpity.com. I got the lowdown on TAR, AI, ANTM and Grey's Anatomy. [Aside: How come only reality shows go by acronyms?] I had to get my Grease results elsewhere--congrats Max! Also had to catch up on media and Hollywood gossip: www.gawker.com and www.tmz.com; and check in with my fellow consumer advocates: consumerist.com. I read on consumerist that Target is tightening its return policy. Not that it matters since I'm still boycotting Target, but it's just further evidence of the decline of what was once one of my favorite stores.