In case you were wondering how to say "Do not eat raw cake batter" in Spanish:

In case you were wondering how to say "Do not eat raw cake batter" in Spanish:, a photo by lalasappy on Flickr.

I just found this on the cake box. I had never noticed they even warned about eating raw cake batter - but how much better is it that they warn in BOTH English and Spanish?

Awesome.

New Hair Proves Who Your True Friends Are

So on Saturday, I had my hair cut and colored. It looks pretty nice. I'm in this awkward place of trying to grow it out from super short...so it's not going to be perfect (in my opinion) until it's back to at least chin-length.

Anywho, recently I told this story on a friend's blog:

Ok, so MAYBE I've been going to Starbucks a bit too often.

I almost just hugged my Starbucks guy.

I saw him standing on the sidewalk (RIGHT OUTSIDE STARBUCKS, LAUREN: CONTEXT CLUES!) and he's all smiley and making eye contact with me. In my head, I'm like "I know this person..." and then he said "hey!" and for a brief moment, I just assumed he was a friend of mine that I couldn't remember how I knew...And I started going in for the hug and then remembered "he gives me my drink every morning; I do not know his name". And so I just sort of throw my hands up in a "what a surprise to see you!" sort of way and give a big "HIIIIII!"

Of course, then he's like, "oh, you just made it in for Frappuccino Happy Hour!" and I'm just smiling and giggling in that awkward way as I run inside my Starbucks, kicking myself.

Crisis basically averted. But now I'm definitely re-evaluating how often I go to Starbucks.

So this morning, I go into Starbucks and Starbucks guy waves at me. I wave back. I get up to the line and he's like "oh I like what you did to your hair! it's really cute!" (either he's gay or has a crush on me...I haven't decided which yet...) Anyway, I thank him, we chat for a moment about how the world didn't end on Saturday and I go on my merry way.

Get to work.

Hours go by. I see both my bosses, my supervisor and some co-workers.

Nobody comments on the fact that my hair is significantly darker and not as crazy as it was on Friday.

...for real...my Starbucks guy noticed. I only see him for like 2 minutes maybe 3-4 days a week. (YES I KNOW I NEED TO COOL THE STARBUCKS HABIT!)

Erin and Whitney totally noticed when they saw me yesterday. See? Friends notice hair changes.

Starbucks guy is my friend.

Even if I don't know his name.

:)

Lovies!

Jetblue Flight 1502 (Why I Keep Laughing to Myself Today)

So, yesterday I flew back from Pittsburgh to NYC and I happened to be on the flight heard 'round the world.

Everything seemed fine as I got on the airplane, but when I got to my seat, this flight attendant (Steven Slater) was standing in the exit row and his head had this cut on it that was bleeding. A man who was seated in the row asked him what happened and he replied "you wouldn't believe the day I had...".

While doing his little safety talk he was totally bored and tired. Then later he came around with sodas and was offering them to everyone. When he got to me, he said "Soda?" and I said "Water?" And he literally just stared at me. Then turned and walked away and continued to pass his sodas. About 5 minutes later, he walks up with water, glares at me (I am not exaggerating - he was an a**hole) and sets a water down on my tray table and walks away, ignoring the girl next to me who tries to ask for one too. So, my point being, the guy was a JERK and he is NOT some hero for "stickin' it to the man" as many blogs are saying.

Then we pull up to the gate, and one guy stands up and starts getting his bag out of the overhead bin. Steven walks up to him and starts talking to him. I was too far away to hear what was said between them, but what others told me was that he came up to tell the man to sit down because the seatbelt sign was on and we were just shy of the gate. Then the bag accidentally hit Steven in the head as the man continued to pull it out. Steven asked for an apology and the man said it was an accident. Steven then DEMANDED an apology and the man said "f*ck you".

So...then when the seatbelt sign goes off and the door opens, we are all standing and I'm waiting to walk down the aisle to the door and the PA system comes on and we hear the following:

"To the mother f*cker who said 'f*ck you' to me, f*ck you too." Then he goes on about how he has been doing this job for 28 years (which is impossible cause the man is not even 40 yet...but I'm not the only one who heard him say that...) and he's already going to quit and it's not worth it anymore and yadda yadda angry man stuff. He then starts to kick stuff out of the way and open the emergency door on the other side of the plane (up by the cockpit). The pilots come out and start trying to stop him, the other flight attendant is trying to stop him and he pushes them out of the way and falls over into his and the other flight attendant's bags. The whole time he's yelling things like "you know what?! I don't even care! Watch this! It doesn't matter at this point!" This is when I was able to get off the plane. But, I was not going to miss the rest of this altercation so I stood on the jetbridge right off the plane and watched as he pulled the cord for the emergency slide, grabbed his bag and was like "Screw this, I'm out of here!", jumped out of the plane, slid down the blow-up slide and walked away.

I walked out with some other passengers into the terminal and a pilot for the next flight asked me "Did someone blow up one of the emergency slides?" and I said "Yeah, your pilot did it" and he was like "What?" So an older couple and I told the pilot and other flight attendants what happened and they all looked SHOCKED. One even was like "I've got to see this!" and ran to the window to watch.

At this point I was just in a fit of giggles and sadly, I did not stick around to see what happened next, but apparently nobody caught him until later in the day anyway.

Nobody was in any danger and as far as I'm concerned, I still LOVE Jetblue and will continue to fly with them. I planned on writing them a letter to explain what happened, but since it got all this publicity, I don't feel the need. PLUS (and this is how great that airline is) I already received an email with an apology and a credit for $100. I got it this morning. Less than 24 hours later. They are awesome.

But like I said, this guy is not a hero. He's a jerk. And an idiot. I mean, c'mon, I know you're mad...but you work in the customer service industry, you're bound to run into rude people and you have to be able to deal with it. I think maybe that last guy was just the straw that broke the camel's back.

And I'm SO glad I was there to witness it. It was priceless. :)