Are the fates against me?

Why is that when you try the hardest to do something nice that everything goes all wrong? Ugh. I tried to take my momma in law out for a fun girl's night last night but nothing went my way. (She is staying with us this week). We planned on going to have our nails done and then going to Macaroni Grill for dinner. We met my Mom and sister at the nail school expecting to have some good, cheap relaxation. But fate had other plans....

The first problem was that instead of scheduling us with students, they had put us with the pros. This of course meant that our services were nearly double in price. Since we are all on a budget, this was a dissappointment. The second issue was that I wound up with this totally weird girl doing my pedicure. Cassandra and I had been there before and I had gotten her when she was a student. Eh. She was super slow. She took about 40 minutes longer on my pedicure than Cassandra's girl did. She also interrupted our conversations with stupid comments. She made a comment to me about it must be so easy to just be a mom. Uh, yeah right...try it some time! The third and biggest problem was that halfway through our services, the power went out and never went back on. This meant that my momma in law didn't get to have her manicure or her pedicure. She had really been looking forward to that. Eh, so I felt horrible.

Then we tried to go to the Macaroni Grill, but they didn't have power either. This was suprising since they were several miles away from the nail school. It was of course at this point, pouring rain. I hate driving in the rain! We did wind up going to Pizzeria Uno which I LOVE! We had a pretty good time anyway.

Today we are going to go to Chicago. We are going to the Lincoln Park Zoo and also to Chinatown. I'm looking forward to eating some yummy chinese food and doing some shopping for fat little buddhas and Hello Kitty stuff. Hopefully this plan won't go awry....