what is a reservation, anyway??

today i turned the tv on and thought, i could go for a good Seinfeld episode right now. so i flipped the channels and viola... anyway, not only was there seinfeld, but it was about something i just recently experienced... i totally knew what jerry was feeling (even though i know he really wasn't "feeling")

my last week in st louis i had to rent a car. i drove my parents old car out to the lou and they wanted me to sell it instead of driving it back home. plus i had a very important baby shower to get to only 2 days after my last day of the internship, so it would have been cutting it close to drive out to california. so i sold the car. (easily i might add) but they needed it before i was done so i rented a car.

i went online. made a few calls. found the best deal. made my reservation. but when the day came to get picked up by enterprise, i received a phone call saying that they were busy and would be there a little bit later. she told me 30 minutes. then an hour goes by and a i give them a call. now they are telling me there are no rental cars on their lot and they are trying to ask another enterprise in the area for an extra car. this time she told me she would call me in a just a little bit to let me know. another hour goes by. still no phone call. i call them again now, i am getting picked up in 15 minutes. another hour later they come to get me.

the whole point of the story was that the reason why i got a car was for the convienence. and them being late, and lying to me about when they would come was not convienent. and i had planned to write a letter to the company letting them know, but then i went to california and forgot about everything. but then 2 weeks later, while in cali i get a call from them. they wanted to go over the charges. like they were just checking in the car right then. 2 weeks later! they are crazy.

anyway watching seinfeld today made me laugh so hard because they were my exact same thoughts. so enjoy peeps. i will now draft my wonderful letter to enterprise about my amazing customer service experience.

i just couldn't do it...

with the passing of Michael Jackson, I have one thought:

what if you were the one in the ambulance or the hospital when he arrived, trying to get his heart to start beating again... but you couldn't... how would you feel knowing that billions of people are counting on you to make magic?

do you think the paramedics knew it was michael jackson they were racing through L.A. to save?

ok maybe that was two thoughts. but it's my blog. so i do what i want.

i for one never really got into the michael jackson fan club scene.  although i LOVE jackson 5.  but the solo stuff, not really. i mean i do like his songs, but not as much as this girl. or this girl. 

oh and as a fellow journalist, i just loved it when, i think it was, abc stated something and then used tmz as their source.  

help i need someone...

i am in a slump.  

They are a punch to the gut, a blow to the psyche. They are humiliating, humbling and hurtful.  

A player in a slump is a sad sight to behold, equal parts wild-eyed desperation and puppy-dog bewilderment....

now i know what the cardinals felt last month when they were not performing offensively...

i wish i could always have the sleep schedule that i have whenever i am in fresno.  living out in the country is wonderful, you wake up naturally with the sun... no matter what time i wake up, if it's natural, i still feel great.  i would usually wake up no later than 7:30 every morning, sometimes as early at 6 am.  boy it feels good to wake up early and do things all day.  

now my life consists of waking up, then falling back to sleep.  and officially waking up/getting out of bed around 10 or 11 (sometimes as late as noon!)  yes i am taking a class this summer, but it is not until 4 pm on mondays and wednesdays.  so that leaves basically the whole day, everyday for me to do nothing.  i find myself watching reruns of shows i have seen before. which by the way, it has made me realize that since the jon and kate divorce, tlc has been replaying episodes of the show that ironically show kate being the most rude to jon.  like barking at him in public places and humiliating him... is that just a coincidence? 

i need to get a job. but where do i look?  am i supposed to just drive around and look for places with a now hiring sign?  i have applied to a few places online, so we will see.  if anyone knows any place that is hiring right now that would be really helpful.  i am willing to work full time this summer, since i could really use the money/something productive to do all day...

so, so far my summer is off to a nice relaxing start, but i would really like that to change.  i like being busy and having things to do all the time.  i just feel lazy.  especially compared to my last 5 months in st louis, that i spent working 40 hours a week... now would be the best time to be living near a baseball team, because i have PLENTY of time to go to games now...

i want i want gimme gimme gimme i need i need

i have a really cool friend. her name is emma jade. and she wanted to be JUST LIKE ME.  so after years of playing with my iphone every second she got, she finally got one of her own.  but now i am envious of her because she has the new one. and i want it.  i want to do all the cool things that it can do.  so if someone is feeling generous this june, i could use a few hundred dollars... 

if you buy me the phone, i promise i will send you messages like this all the time. (minus the beautiful picture of ejb)

end of an era

i am done with my internship.  i can't believe it. when it started, i thought it would never end. and i wanted it to. until the last 2 months. that's when i started opening up and started loving the people there. i will miss that place. really.  but it still feels like i will be going back in a few days. unfortunately after this vaca, i will be going back to provo instead. 

the last week i was in stl i had to get a rental car because i sold the parentals car.  unfortunately enterprise gave me a pt loser. but it sure came in handy when parking is so expensive and free street spots are hard to come by for the cardinals game.  i saw a tiny spot that i would have passed up in the taurus, but was able to comfortably squeeze into in the cruiser.

i am going to MISS busch stadium.  but i got out at just the right time. the cardinals haven't won a game since i have left. maybe they NEED me. :)  i need them too. the last night i was in st louis i went to the cardinals game.  a lot of people from the station got free tickets from mcdonalds, and i stole some from frank who was on furlough anyway.  so i sat up in big mac land. except i only was there for the last 3 innings, because i had to go to the doctor and finish cleaning my room so that i could hang out with my friends after the game.  

we went to mcgurks with a few people from the station. it was fun, but sad at the same time. once again, i am going to miss these peeps. kayla and i were planning on staying up all night since i had to be at the airport at 5 am anyway, but we were pretty tired and i wanted to get a nap. but we did go to steak n shake one last time.  we were the only ones there at 2 am. go figure. one thing i love about steak n shake is that it is open 24 hours AND the dining area is open 24 hours.  every fast food place needs to have their dining area open all the time. 

i almost missed my flight to vegas. haha. i guess part of me just didn't want to leave. i spent the day in vegas with morty and adrianne and aaron. nate was working. since i had been up for 7 hours already, i wanted to go to in n out when i landed. but it as only 9 am in vegas.  so we went right when it opened. and then we went to serendipity 3 on the strip. it wasn't good! 

 i will always like the serendipity in new york the best!  then morty and i took off for fresno! first stop. DOGHOUSE!  tri-tip sandwich=devoured...  loved it.

and now i am in fresno. having fun with everyone. baby jj's shower was super cute. retro cowboy theme.  SOOO cute. 

and it was fun to have aubrey and shawn here. i love greg. and was happy to finally see bryson!

we've just been hanging out at the house. i helped stan and reshea add a lovely addition to their living room media center. i have been pulling weeds, mowing the lawn. paying for my rent!  :)

life from busch stadium

I went over to the stadium again today!  Man i wish this could have started weeks ago instead of it happening the last week of my internship. oh well. this is way fun.  

so today we didn't have much time to get stuff from the players. we only were there for an hour.  and once again i don't have access to the clubhouse so i sat out in the dugout. but this time i had someone to talk to.  

jose oquendo. the man sitting on the top level in this picture. he's an assistant coach for the cards.  the 3rd base coach that everybody but albert uses to know when to keep running the bases or when to stop.  he sat down next to me and started a conversation. we talked about everything from his new granddaughter to where i go to school and what i want to be.  he was really nice and talked to me for about 10/15 minutes. 

skip shumaker came out of the clubhouse a while later looking for oquendo.  and he asked me where he went.  yep. that's right.  skip talked to me directly.  haha. 

it was a fun experience this time again.  we were only there for an hour. but it was one amazing hour!  i am really going to miss busch stadium.  or like one of the girls at work said, busch stadium is going to miss me.

oh p.s. i am currently on an airplane. i am on one of the test planes for wifi above 10,000 feet. sweet huh? i was wondering when airlines would get on that.  

Pinch Me Now To Make Sure...

ok i have been neglecting this blog.  and i really don't feel like posting right now, but i need to write about my amazing day before i forget anything cool.

so... today was the day the new interns arrived at channel 5.  which means we were training all day.  well we had a bit of a break and so i went into the sports department and was talking with katie (the reporter) and we were brainstorming ideas for stories that she could do this week.  well one thing led to another and i found myself walking up to the credential window at busch and getting the pass that gets me inside...  we went into the stadium and i had to go wait on the field while rene and katie talked with some of the guys in the clubhouse. (interns aren't allowed in the clubhouse.)   

i walk out on the field and immediately MELTED.  1. because this was what i came to st louis to do! and 2. because it was 92 degrees outside and like 500% humidity.  of course i pick the hottest day of the year to go to the ballpark.

well immediately i see shade in the dugout so i go and sit there. (right about where yadi is sitting)

and i sit there and sit there and think to myself are the players ever going to come out??  and then...

chris carpenter walks out from the clubhouse and up the stairs to the field and i MELT again.  is this really happening?? am i really here?!

and then one by one they all come out.

Lohse, Barden, Thurston (who then proceeded to walk by me and lay his stuff down on the bench a few feet away so that he could insert the cup. awkward) Yadi, Shumaker, Ryan, Franklin, Perez, Motte, Rasmus, Duncan... and so on.  and then.... PUJOLS.  yes. i was in the dugout when pujols was there.  he's the greatest hitter in baseball.  HEAVEN!

they are all pretty funny people. motte was cracking jokes on his way out to right field.  carp is pulling a plastic bag out of his back pocket with 2 Bubble Gum gumballs. one blue.  one dark pink.  barden is drinking some kind of energy boost/red bull thing.  

one of the producers from FSN is asking barden if they will let him be mic'd up during bp tomorrow. and he says they'll have to catch him when he's in a good mood so he'll talk alot.  and then the producer says to have a few drinks first. barden says he doesn't think he can come to the stadium drunk... then the fsn producer says miles was the best mic'd up so far so barden has a lot to prove, and i am thinking, brendan ryan would be the best. and then barden says, you mean brendan ryan wasn't the best. and then i may have not been invited but i join the conversation saying that i would have guessed that too... and just like that. i am in with brian barden. haha. jk.  one thing i love about myself is that i feel comfortable talking to most people. 

so now i venture up to the field and watch batting practice and warmups with katie and rene.  after 20 or so minutes my body temperature reaches 500 degrees so i decide to sit by the stairs down to the clubhouse where there is air conditioning. after a few minutes of this, i see pujols walking toward the dugout and i look at katie and she's getting all excited for me. and all of a sudden he is walking down the steps only inches from me.  and i MELT.  

the rest of the pregame proceeded like this. we talked with brendan ryan, who does a good impression of Robert Dinero.  and we talked with Hal McRae, and Cal Eldred and Nick Stavinoha and Tony Larussa.

and then at 6:30 we left the stadium and i walked back to channel 5 and could not stop smiling.  and i still can't stop smiling. :)

time of arrival- 3:30

items on the agenda: pure bliss

time of departure- 6:30