Author / Bethe

by Bethe

Happy Ending


Today, I was the Girl with the Pearl Earring. 

Just the one.
Because the other fell out somewhere. I wasn’t sure where. It doesn’t help that I work in an incredibly huge hospital with six floors, and this morning I decided to run all over the hospital, never taking the same route twice. 
After I finished all that running, I realized I had lost my favorite earring. It was part of the set that my parents gave me a few years ago. I love them. And one was gone.
After retracing my steps and calling our Lost & Found department, I gave up. And then, on a whim, I decided to send an email blast asking folks to watch out for my earring. 
And then came the happy ending. At 9:30 tonight, someone from the radiology night shift called to say that a patient had found an earring on the floor. He didn’t think much of it until he checked his email and realized it was mine. We will be reunited in the morning! Hooray!
by Bethe

Pooh on David’s Bridal

David’s Bridal, you are a bad, bad company.

First, you messed up my sister’s wedding dress. You altered it (for $400). And it didn’t fit.
So she had it altered again. And it still didn’t fit.
So she had it altered a third time. And it still didn’t fit.
Oh yeah, and after the third alteration, she found BLOOD on her dress. And rips and snags in the seams. Your seamstress BLED on my sister’s dress, did shoddy work, and all you offered to do to make it right was discount her $65. 
Um, yeah, that’s not going to work.
Because you ruined her first dress (after three failed alterations), you ordered her a second dress. You made her wait a month for it to arrive. When the new dress came… it was too small. Even though it was the size you claimed would fit her better. And then, you still wouldn’t do anything to make it right. That nothing could be done. For a fourth time, you couldn’t get it right. 
Even worse, you made my sister cry.
That’s when big sister Bethe stepped in. After a spirited “discussion” with your manager, you said you might give her a free alteration. After you clear it through corporate, you have promised to call me in the morning.
But, David’s Bridal… if you don’t take care of this (and quickly)… then you’re going to get to see me in action. Nobody messes with my sister. And you have no idea how persistent I can be. Just ask the VP of Communications for AOL, who called and gave me a personal apology a few years ago for the actions of his company. I’m a nice girl, and I will be nice to you. And I’m rarely assertive or confrontational. But don’t mess with me when I mean business. 
And trust me, I mean business on this one. 
But I’m hopeful that you, David’s Bridal, will do the right thing. Take care of your customer. Save the day. 
Go ahead. This is your chance.
by Bethe

Reasons

There’s a simple explanation for the dire lack of blogging activity over the past week… I am so consumed by work and school at the moment that I don’t have a single brain cell left to think of something interesting (or uninteresting, for that matter) to write about. 

Now don’t go feeling too sorry for me. Yes, I just pulled a 14-hour day today, and a 12-hour day yesterday, and several 12-hour days last week. In fact, if you add up the hours I will be either working or in school over the next six days, it adds up to around 75. Including Friday night and 14 hours on Saturday. Gulp. 
But in between school district advisory board meetings, organizing galas and putting on marathons, I’ve managed to fit in a few hot tub nights, a drive-in movie, neighborhood dinner parties, a little Bachelor watching with girlfriends, and a huge blow-out party at my sister’s new house. I may feel like I’ve been run over by a freight train (that’s what a full week without a decent night’s sleep will do for you), but as I drove home tonight at 9:00 after a long day of work, singing at the top of my lungs to Taylor Swift’s Love Story, I was quite happy.
by Bethe

Train ’em up early

The Bachelor has become a bit of a tradition at my house. Some of my favorite memories with girlfriends throughout the years involve dinner parties while watching this show. I started watching with my college friends back in 2002, and now have graduated to my “big girl” married friends.  My good friend Tiff and I are both hopelessly hooked, and tonight we introduced her new baby Sevyn (about 6 weeks old) to her first girl bonding night with The Bachelor! Sevyn was just as upset as we were that Bachelor Jason has turned into a bit of a sleeze, but we all enjoyed yelling at the TV at the silly girls and all their drama. And we still love Jillian, even if she DID get the boot last week. 

And if you want some juicy Bachelor gossip, check this out.
by Bethe

What the heck?!

Jason, the Bachelor, is an idiot! He voted off Jillian, the beautiful girl with lot’s of personality who was mature and fun and cool… and yet she wasn’t “sparky” enough for him.

Ugggh! The minute he sent her home, my phone started ringing off the hook. My mother is NOT happy about this one… guys, you all got blamed for most of the world’s problems last night because of this goober. I’ll admit, we all got a bit worked up by his stupidity. I apologize for that…
But come on Jason… what a terrible decision!
by Bethe

Mix Tape

My friend David isn’t the only one who makes mixed tapes. Here’s my Super-Girlie February 2009 Favorites Playlist… as chosen by me. The only criteria for this… songs that make me happy. Each one makes me happy for a different reason. There’s a lot of Taylor Swift because I just bought her newest CD yesterday and I’m a tad bit obsessed. And I really wanted to include Vanilla Ice, because that song makes me the happiest of all, but it didn’t fit with the rest, so I had to give it the axe. It may be number one on my Super-Awesome-Cool March 2009 Favorites Playlist.

Drumroll please…

1. Change – Taylor Swift
2. Getting Into You – Relient K
3. I’m Letting Go – Francesca Battistelli
4. Love Story – Taylor Swift
5. Here – Rascal Flatts
6. Lay Your Head Down – Karen Ann
7. The One I Love – David Gray
8. Fearless – Taylor Swift
9. Watch Over Me – Aaron Shust
10. The Way You Look Tonight – Rod Stewart
11. You’re Not Sorry – Taylor Swift
12. When I Go Down – Relient K
13. White Horse – Taylor Swift
14. Give a Little Love – The Judds
15. Breathe – Taylor Swift
16. Be OK – Ingrid Michaelson
17. Tim McGraw – Taylor Swift
18. My Baby Loves Me – Martina McBride
by Bethe

All better–bye bye flu

PS–After 27 sick blogs over the past ten days, I’m happy to report that I’m doing much better! I managed to go to work today, and made it all the way until 3:00 before going home and passing out on my couch. I think my couch will have a permanent imprint of my hiney on it after this week.

It’s so good to be back with the living… and away from Facebook. I have officially cyber-stalked every person I have ever known and am utterly bored by the whole thing. If my childhood best friend’s little brother’s new wife posted photos this week, I’ve seen them. Now that I’m feeling better, it’s so good to be back around REAL people, doing REAL work, and breathing REAL fresh air. Thanks again to everyone who prayed for me and emailed me over the past week… you guys rock. I’m happy to officially report that I’m NO LONGER CONTAGIOUS. Hooray!
by Bethe

All that work for nothing…

Sometimes, there just aren’t enough words to describe the irony. This lady had the world record for longest nails, which she hadn’t cut in 30 years… and in a twist of fate, she was thrown from a car in an accident, and survived near death. But her nails didn’t.

I can’t tell you how utterly grossed out I am by this photo. I keep thinking of all of my daily, mundane tasks, and how I would manage to do them if I had lassos for fingernails. Not to mention how difficult it must be for her to find mittens that fit. 
by Bethe

Valentines Fun

Well, it’s day nine and I’m still home in bed. I’ve officially run out of things to do, and yet I don’t have the energy to worry about it. Luckily, I talked to my doctor on the phone this morning, and he assures me that my slow recovery is typical of this year’s flu and nothing to worry about. He told me the same thing that every person I have spoken to for past week has told me… get lot’s of rest, drink lot’s of liquids, and it will eventually run its course. 

I wish they would come up with something more creative… like… eat massive amounts of cookies and ice cream and you’ll get well faster. Just in case, I went ahead and tried that too.

In order to provide myself with a little bit of entertainment, here’s some Valentines YouTube fun.