Holy Crispex in a container it is good to be home. Be warned that this probably won’t make much sense since I’m still a wee bit travel weary. Also I believe that a family of small, gelatin-like aliens have taken up residency in my nasal cavities and are trying to build a new colony based on religious and dietary freedoms. Also, I may be on cold meds. Maybe both of those things. I can’t remember.
I just thought I should warn you since my posts are always concise, coherent, and make complete sense. Ahem.
Of course our trip back to Snowboken just had to coincide with what the listeners of WNYC aptly nicknamed Snowtorious B.I.G. (or Biggie Squalls for those more intimately acquainted with the wall of ick). I know this because I listened to the Brian Lehrer show in it’s entirety while we “traveled” the ten miles between Union and Newark. Just in case you aren’t aware, his show is three hours long. Three hours. Ten miles. If I had the brain power to do math today, I could tell you just how few miles per hour that is. but for now let’s just say it’s less than Pi. We traveled at a speed of less than Pi per hour. Can you guess how many times you have to bang your head against the dashboard in a three hour time span to convince your bladder it’s empty? *sigh*
That was day two of trying to get home. We tried so hard the night before, but a mere 100 miles away from the city we had to give up. We pulled off the highway seeking shelter in the small town of Bethlehem. Fortunately there WAS room at this inn. That’s probably because I was neither with child nor livestock. Unless you count Rocco. Who probably could count as either. But the innkeeper probably couldn’t tell that after talking to him for a less than two minutes.
Does the Holiday Inn Express count as an Inn? It has Inn in the name, right? Let’s say it counts. Also, I’m not sure that the blonde at the front desk really qualified as an innkeeper. She was really more of a cashier. But she gave me a cookie so I’d like to give her a more important role in my story.
Not that this is really a story. I didn’t see any wise men. Though we did see a group of rowdy frat boys try and build a manger from grape jelly packets while we dined at the Waffle House.
When the producers tweak the screen play for the major motion picture, those frat boys will doubtlessly die a fiery death when the terrorist hijacked flaming truck full of puppies jumps the off ramp and crashes into their booth. Maybe just go ahead and imagine that so this is a little less boring. Also can you bring me some tea and honey?
For the record, we didn’t witness any virgin births while we were there, either. Apparently we were a few days late for that kind of thing. Also we were too late for some sort of holiday beer festival. I was more upset about the latter.
Really it wasn’t an exciting night at all. Our double room was remarkably boring. After ripping all the bedding from the mattresses and searching for signs of bedbugs, Rocco and I climbed into one bed while Herbert and Isabella took the other. (More on that duo tomorrow…)
I managed to make the hotel wifi work for a full twenty minutes during which I whipped out a quick Craftastrophe. It’s exactly the kind of thing I’d expect to find under a Christmas tree…if I was trapped inside a Neil Gaiman novel.
You know what? The end. I can’t remember my name right now. I have to do some tongue exercises since I’m going to Brief Encounter again tonight and I want to be prepared just in case the opportunity arises to lick the entire cast.
Also I can’t stop singing this song. If someone could explain to me what the hell this is about and why it’s permanently etched in my brain, I’d be most appreciative.
Oh and hi! Good to see you again, Interwebz!
Clearly Barbra and Kanye are collaborating on a project so huge it’s less than Pi.
Also I really want a piece of pie.
There’s always room at the Holiday Inn Express. Just like LiLo’s crotch!
And livestock!
(insert sound of horse whinnying)
I’d love an express holiday… Mine seems endless and completely without frat boys, grape jelly or inns.. Talk about a wall of ick.
At least the ick is melting…and collecting in stagnant pools of funk.
I STILL haven’t managed to get back to Colorado…although I heard NYC got it worse than the rest of New England. Plus, no one knows how to drive a plow in that city.
Boo. Safe travels. I’m so glad we didn’t try to fly.
i’m dying to hear if herbert found isabella’s G chord.
welcome back, even a bladder and sinus infection can’t keep your funny down!
I love you so much it hurts my intrigue.
Rowdy frat boys building their own nativity? See, and they say the youth today isn’t it touch with religion.
Mostly they were in touching themselves.
After this Christmas, my IQ is less than Pi. Chocolate over consumption killed it.
So….Isabella eh? Did Herbert get a sibling?
I saw your snow on the TV. It’s hard to sympathize when you have that much snow for five effing months a year but I did try. It’s just that you guys are just never prepared for that kind of blizzardyness. And if you’re not, it’s so frustrating. So see, I was almost sympathetic.
Dude, I cried real tears.
And then those tears froze into tiny daggers that you plunged into Baxter’s tiny, tiny heart.
Hey, if it’s got “Inn” in the name. It’s an inn as far as I’m concerned. Lemme know when the movie premiers. I’m there.
So do schwinn bicycles count? I’d hate to try and sleep in one of those. Again.
One loves Hoboken …. in the summer!
I feel the same way about Chicago. And most things, really. Mostly I just hate winter. And snow. Boo. Hiss.
I am glad you made it home safe!
Me too! I’m glad we chickened out and hid in Pennsylvania for the night. I am still, however, regretting my smothered, covered, diced, and whatever elsed hashbrowns.
Clearly, the fact that your previous commenters are writing coherent responses means that they didn’t click on that Craftastrophe link. I did, and now I’m blind. I’m typing this by touch. And now I’m going to go chop off my own traitorous fingers for clicking to that monstrosity.
So…cancel your order then?
I’m with Falling there. Holy toothy shit. It does remind me of Vagina Dentata though, which I’m pretty sure is an evolutionary eventuality.
Welcome home!
I don’t need another set of wisdom teeth for pulling.
That craftastrophe looks like something my sister’s sponge boyfriend (whatever) killed, ate and decided to get rich selling scary muffs (like LiLo’s…) made out of their pelts!
But your snow looks so pretty on the news? (Fricken 38C predicted for New Years eve here). I am impressed by your ability to whip your bladder into submission on your 3 hr trip of Wintery wonder. I bow to the master.
Welcome back. Will now go melt under the AC. Or sprawl like a drunken girl at schoolies, naked on the cool tiles downstairs. It’s a toss up at this point.
Holiday Inn gives out cookies? Nice!
Anyone who gives out cookies deserves a starring role in your story!