All Things Woompty

Only I could make Las Vegas sound this boring

So Vegas was awesome, as usual. I noticed that there is a plethora of penny slots these days, even at the more upscale hotels like the Bellagio and the Venetian. If that's not a comment on today's economy, I don't know what is.

Anyway, there was a lot of sloth going on this weekend. We sat around and waited for the Pratts to show up after their Flight From Hell. Pratt and the lovely Maria spent 8 hours on their plane, which was literally longer than we were on our plane to Costa Rica. Luckily for them, when they arrived at our palatial abode (which was on the 33rd floor so every time we went up or down in the elevator my ears were popping), we had booze to share while sitting around and talking while listening to the low roar of motorcycles cruising the Strip (Bikefest was this weekend, dontcha know).

Saturday morning meant a breakfast of Cocoa Puffs while watching cartoons on a gigantic plasma screen HDTV with Bose surround sound. That was kind of awesome. Then we went and had lunch with the Pratts and the lovely Mary Ann, who flew out from Phoenix just for the day. I declined a chance to go get my geek on at the Star Trek Experience and chose instead to go back to the room and lay on the couch and read trashy chick magazines. Seriously, the room was so awesome that tromping around Las Vegas had no appeal to me. Besides, I had to rest up a bit for a wild night of playing slot machines and drinking martinis. I had way more fun playing the fantastic "It's My Party" penny slot...at one point I won like $7. And then I spent it all. I was a HIGH ROLLER, let me tell you. What can I say, I'm a sucker for cute cartoon animals. Want to steal all my money? Dangle some cute animals in my face.

Anyway, we came home yesterday and by the time I went to bed I had a weird rash starting on my legs. I woke up yesterday with big red blotches on my legs, a matching one on my underarm, a random measely looking rash on my arm and all kinds of itching. So today I've been mainlining children's Benadryl every three hours to try and get the horrible badness to go away. The only thing I can think of that might have caused it is the swanky Crabtree & Evelyn body wash that I used on Sunday morning. Blech. It seems to be going away though.

Thank god, because dude, the last thing I need to do is walk around the office looking like a leper.

posted by Melinda @ 7:03 PM