Cordelia and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (But then it turned out pretty sweet)

Today was an incredible emotional roller coaster.

I was asked to return to my job at Transform, the one I worked at last summer. Totally beats out making sandwiches, and its more interesting. I get to test more software.

Anyhow, I had a sort of interview at 10 this morning. I made it out the door not only not late, but get this, I was early!! The first half of the drive was fine, but then I stopped in Golden to get gas, since apparently vehicles need that to run. Then I tried to start up my car, aaaaand, it didn't happen. So, I called Dad, who told me some things to try to get it started. After lots of attempts and several futile tries at jump starting it (I really couldn't get it going fast enough to help any, that Jeepy is freaking heavy) I managed to push it into a (handicapped) parking spot, since that was what was straight ahead. I'm pretty sure I looked like a goof, trying to singlehandedly push my dead vehicle across a parking lot in my interviewing clothes. At least I was wearing flats, not heels. Flats are totally from Jesus.

Sooooooo, I called the nice AAA kids, who sent someone to try shocking my car, which didn't work, so they brought the tow truck on over. Oh yeah, and as soon as I got out of my car to let them load it, it started pouring rain. But, it stopped as soon as they were done.

I then rode in the truck to the nearby Jeepy dealer, while the driver told me about all the things he was planning to do to fix up his truck. The people at the Jeep dealer were really cool about it and fixed it up real fast. It really does help to be cute and nicely dressed. There was something wrong with something in the steering column, so the Car-fixin dude said they might have to replace the steering column, which would be freaking expensive and require me to rent a car for several days. But then he found an used part that would work, which they didn't charge me for. So what was looking like an incredibly pricey four hour jaunt turned into an only sort of pricey four hour jaunt, since they only charged for the labor. I'm tellin ya girls, next time you need your car fixed, get all dressed up and stuff.

In the end, I got my baby Jeepy back and drove down to the interview. Aaaand, they gave me a full time job with much better pay than sandwich making. So, for the next few months at least, I will be working as a software tester for an oil-and-gas-industry-software-developing-company. Also as a "here, could you do this? I don't have time" person. I am SOOO excited. I have been super bored sitting around at home, although I'm sure my roommates would prefer that since I bake when I am bored, which resulted in a cake yesterday. I also sewed a reusable grocery bag on Monday.

Now I am going to go to bed, so that I can begin my life as a working woman in the morning.

And, just for fun, a photo of my poor baby Jeepy during a happier time in life. Isn't she so cute??

Not yet

I have so many photos from our trip that my poor little computer can't handle it, so I am still working on getting those together. I took nearly 1300 photos on almost 12 gigs of memory, and I have to sort through all of them.

Since this has been an incredibly busy summer, I can start with the beginning. First, I graduated. Yay. Then, I spent some time at parental-home. Then, I spent some time in Boulder-home. Then, we went to Portland. Then, Abby-and-David's wedding and all the preparation leading up to it, then Europe, and now I am embarking yet again to visit family members. Since finals week, I have not spent more than about 10 consecutive days in my own house, sleeping in my own bed. I don't have food at home that is not either frozen or non-perishable. Except for some milk (Hey wonderful roommates of mine, feel free to drink that milk. Or at least chuck it when it smells).

To make up for my spectacular failure in keeping up to date with the Europe trip, I will just start from the beginning with some archive photos. In case you want to see more photos, either check out Dad's website, which has both Alli's and my graduation pics along with a detailed account of a certain snowplow accident. Use our middle names to get into the locked folders for Alli's and my photos. Website: www.frozenkinetics.com. My photos also have a home finally: http://holmescd.smugmug.com/, and I will have all my photos up there soon, hopefully.

The Fam at the rose gardens:


Hiking along the Coast:

Awesome-sauce with a cherry on top. I'm actually not a big fan of cherries, so lets put hot fudge on top instead. Who thought of that saying anyhow?

Watching the dragon boat races from the Grand's balcony

The creepy house we stayed in, complete with spooky basement and several dirty shovels.

There are plenty more photos, but the internet is too slow for me to sit here and wait for more to upload. I need my nightly nap now. Hehe, that was sorta an alliteration.

In other news, we took Alli-Walli to orientation at CSU today. They taught the incoming freshman the CSU fight song, which I silently protested by staying in my chair. (If you didn't know already, CSU and CU are rivals) I politely refrained from cheering anti-Rams songs, so as not to traumatize the freshman. Still, it sucks to be a CSU Ram. But Alli, since I love you so much I will support your choice even though it is traitorous.

Cori go sleepy now. Cori very tired. Cori did not have siesta today.

Sorry

Yeah, Yeah, I know, I was supposed to post a blog whenever something cool happened. However, apparently when one doesn´t have a computer, it is hard to connect to the internet, and it becomes required that I spend lots of time in internet cafes, which is hard to convince Diana to do because she is not nearly as addicted to computer- use as I am. Also, I read the Hobbit while waiting to log in to this site, and will most likely finish the entire Lord of the Rings series while this uploads, its that slow. Its like I was transported back in time. Oh, how I am excited to get home and reattach my favorite appendage- my computer.

We are in Barcelona this morning, on the way to Madrid and then home. I promise I will post more details when I get home and sort through my 8 gigs and counting of photos. Right now I am getting evil glares from people waiting to use the compy, so I´m off to find some coffee.

Love and miss y'all,


C