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Well, not a lot has happened since my last post.  The latest in the string of annoyances is that when they switched my coworkers and I from salaried to hourly, they had to reset our benefits. Well the dental provider got the termination notice, but not the renew notice.  I found this out yesterday when my dentist called and said that deltadental was refusing to pay for my recent filling.  So I called and yelled at benefits, and they said they would call me back, but they haven’t yet.  I get really sick of having to fight for the things around here that I am supposed to get by default.

In other news, I have officially hired a Realtor (finally, yeah I know), and am really starting to look for a place.  I got pre-approved last week.  Its kind of exciting I guess.

My mom got some of these topsy turvy things, so for mother’s day I got her $23 worth of tomatoes and dirt.  The place she hung these things, I don’t really think they will grow, its right behind a tree, and I don’t believe there is much sun there.  In fact, the tree blocks from the North and West, and the house blocks from the South and East.  She may as well have hung them up inside, but we’ll see I guess.

So funny story.  A week ago I was invited to go to my brother’s girlfriend’s graduation lunch out in Chesterfield, MO.  At first it was supposed to be at Olive Garden (OG), but due to threatening weather, they moved the graduation to later in the day, so the lunch got changed to brunch. So my sister the social coordinator for our bunch called to let us know that the event had been moved to IHOP. Now don’t get me wrong, I like IHOP (a lot more than OG), but I thought it was a little strange that it would be moved from OG to IHOP.  But whatever. so I drove out to Chesterfield, and was sitting in my car at the IHOP.  I of course was really early, I always am.  But I started getting worried cause I didn’t see anyone I knew after a while.  So at 10 minutes before the thing was supposed to start, I went inside.

I still didn’t see anyone I knew, so I asked the host, “hey I’m here for a graduation party, lots of people.” He said he hadn’t sat any parties, and wanted of course to know how many.  So I called my brother and was all like,

“So, where are you guys at?

“Where are you at?”

“I’m waiting for you guys here at IHOP, if you know how many people there are going to be I can get a table…”

“Why the hell are you at IHOP?”

“Uh…cause I was told this thing was moved from the OG to the IHOP.”

“Who the hell told you that?”

“Amy.” (that would be my sister)

“Heh, no, its at the pancake house, not IHOP”

“Uh..whats the difference?”

“The place is called ‘the original pancake house, its just down the street.”

“Oh, okay, I’ll be there in a few.”

So on my way out to the car, I called my sister, who had been going crazy trying to get ahold of my parents cause they were supposed to pick her up, but she didn’t know if they knew they were supposed to pick her up. But of course my parents don’t actually carry their cell phones with them, instead they generally just leave them at home.  In any case, I let my sister know we were not going to IHOP, but instead the pancake house, and should she ever get picked up, this is where we would be.  The pancakes were pretty good, I would definitely recommend going there if you like pancakes or omelets.

Afterwords we all went over to my sister’s boyfriends house for a little while.  It was a nice place, but what do you expect for Chesterfield? After a while my parents and my brother left for the graduation ceremony, and my sister decided she wanted to go to the Butterfly House and she wanted me to come along.  So I did.  I had never been there before, so it was interesting, though honestly, not worth the $6.  You can check out some photo’s my sister took while we were there.

After that, my sister’s boyfriend, Neal, wanted to show me this bbq place called Annie Guns.  It was a neat place I guess, but honestly, it is just a store where they sell food. I don’t really care all that much.

Well, I think this post is long enough now.