Free Lunch at Gus & Paul's

So when I was on jury duty I ate at Gus and Paul’s one day and put my business card in the fishbowl to win a free lunch (that is basically all I use my business cards for haha – this is the third thing I’ve won!).  So I guess I blew the surprise with that last sentence, but I won the free lunch for up to 15 people at Gus & Paul’s downtown.  The Ameritrade financial advisor, Tom Zimmer, that provides the lunch and 5 minute talk on what he does is a Cathedral grad one year back from me, which may have influenced my chances of winning (Niiiiiiicce (Borat style)).  I don’t think I will be able to make it back to use the lunch so if anyone wants it let me know.  You could even make it a Robillard blog party lunch (like “block party”).  Hahaha.  OK let me know

 

ROCK ON!!!

 

Paul Bordua

Shawmut Design and Construction

560 Harrison Avenue

Boston, MA 02118

p. 617.622.7444

f.  617.622.8444

c. 617.592.2350

pbordua@shawmut.com

 

Be sure and cancel your credit cards before you die. This is so priceless, and so easy to see happening, customer service being what it is today. A lady died this past January, and Citibank billed her for February and March for their annual service charges on her credit card, and then added late fees and interest on the monthly charge. The balance had been $0.00, now is somewhere around $60.00. A family member placed a call to Citibank:

Family Member:"I am calling to tell you that she died in January."
Bank:"The account was never closed and the late fees and charges still apply."
Family Member:"Maybe, you should turn it over to collections."
Bank:"Since it is two months past due, it already has been."
Family Member:So, what will they do when they find out she is dead?"
Bank:"Either report her account to the frauds division or report her to the credit bureau, maybe both!"
Family Member:"Do you think God will be mad at her?"
Bank:"Excuse me?"
Family Member:"Did you just get what I was telling you - the part about her being dead?"
Bank:"Sir, you'll have to speak to my supervisor."Supervisor gets on the phone:
Family Member:"I'm calling to tell you, she died in January."
Bank:"The account was never closed and the late fees and charges still apply."
Family Member:"You mean you want to collect from her estate?"
Bank:(Stammer) "Are you her lawyer?"
Family Member:"No, I'm her great nephew." (Lawyer info given)
Bank:"Could you fax us a certificate of death?"
Family Member:"Sure." (fax number is given)After they get the fax:
Bank:"Our system just isn't set-up for death. I don't know what more I can do to help."
Family Member:"Well, if you figure it out, great! If not, you could just keep billing her. I don't think she will care."
Bank:"Well, the late fees and charges do still apply."
Family Member:"Would you like her new billing address?"
Bank:"That might help."
Family Member:"Odessa Memorial Cemetery, Highway 129, Plot Number 69."
Bank:"Sir, that's a cemetery!"
Family Member:"What do you do with dead people on your planet?"

 

My life lately

Hey everyone,

I never write on here anymore, so I thought I would let you all know that I'm still alive and well. I just got back from Spring Break playing Ultimate Frisbee in Savannah Georgia. We stayed on Tybee Island outside of Savannah and it was gorgeous and sooo much fun! I'm sad to be back at school, but Spring is finally here, so it'll be ok. Only 6 more weeks until the end of the semester and then I get to go to Vegas for a vacation with my friend's family and then enjoy the summer working (I don't know where yet).

Guess who's coming to speak at my school in May . . . the Dalai Lama! Isn't that crazy? I still don't understand why, but Smith and Hampshire students and faculty are the only people who can go, so I'm going to get to see the Dalai Lama and listen to a speech. I just thought that was cool and thought I would let you all know.

Love you all,
Julie

P.S. I won a free round trip ticket to Boston today, maybe I'll visit Paul soon :)

Congratulations Nicole!

On Sunday, Nicole will be inducted into Psi Chi Honor Society.

Great Job Nicole! We know how hard you are working in school and we are so proud of you!

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Robillards in Guatemala

Kevin and Paul will be traveling to Guatemala for the last two weeks in April.  We are meeting some friends there who operate a non-profit school near Antigua.  We’ll be checking out much of the country, including Tikal, a major Mayan city with a ton of ruins to check out. 

 

Guatemala ended 30 years of civil war in 1996 and has been steadily developing ever since.  This is part of the reason that their school system is not the greatest and why my friends joined Los Patojos – www.lospatojos.org if you want to check them out.

 

I’ll post some more stuff about Guatemala when I get the chance. 

 

PS – this blog is starting to become less frequented with new material.  LETS STEP IT UP ROBILLARDS!!

New e-mail

Just wanted to share my new e-mail address - arobill1@lfsus.jnj.com


Also, who is going to be around next weekend??

another joke form T.E.C.W.A.E.

Flynn staggered home very late after another evening with his drinking buddy, Paddy.   He took off his shoes to avoid waking his wife, Mary.
 
 He tiptoed as quietly as he could toward the stairs leading to their upstairs bedroom, but misjudged the bottom step.   As he caught himself by grabbing the banister, his body swung around and he landed heavily on his rump.   A whiskey bottle in each back pocket broke and made the landing especially painful.
 
 Managing not to yell, Flynn sprung up, pulled down his pants, and looked in the hall mirror to see that his butt cheeks were cut and bleeding.   He managed to quietly find a full box of Band-Aids and began putting a Band-Aid as best he could on each place he saw blood.
 
 He then hid the now almost empty Band-Aid box and shuffled and stumbled his way to bed.
 
 In the morning, Flynn woke up with searing pain in both his head and butt and Mary staring at him from across the room.
 
 She said, "You were drunk again last night weren't you?"
 
 Flynn said, "Why you say such a mean thing?"
 
 "Well," Mary said, "it could be the open front door, it could be the broken glass at the bottom of the stairs, it could be the drops of blood trailing through the house, it could be your bloodshot eyes, but mostly.....it's all those Band-Aids stuck on the hall mirror.

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Worst Travel Luck EVER!!!

So it is official...I think I have the worst travel luck ever!

Last time I tried to come home from California was around Valentines Day. Dad and I almost got stuck in Charlotte and when I flew out the next day the airline "lost" my bag for 3 days, just to find out that it was at the Atlanta airport the entire time!!!!!

This time I am flying back for 2 weeks for training for my job. My class (about 50 people, including Internationals) have had plans to go out in NYC for Saint Patrick's day since July!!! Everyone has been really excited all week. This morning I checked my flights several times and everything seemed good to go so my car picked me up and away to the airport we went. In the 30 minutes that it took us to get to the airport my flight got cancelled. I was a little disappointed but figured I could get out tomorrow and still make SOME of the party but unfortnuately I was wrong again!!! I offered to fly out of 3 different airport, into 5 different airports, and this gets me in on Monday night.

To save some money I decided to take a shuttle back to my apartment from the airport instead of the car service. I made friends with my 7 van mates, heard about how one woman teaches english as a second language and used to live in a wigwam, and got a 2.5 hour tour of the Silicon Valley before I got back to my apartment. Needless to say I won't be doing that again any time soon!

So I think that this makes it official...WORST TRAVEL LUCK EVER!!!!

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All Settled in California - Part 2

So here are the last few pictures of my apartment...

Here is another view of my living room...the TIVO is the most important part of this picture!



I love my porch! It's perfect for reading and enjoying a nice glass of wine - and it's really big!



Here is my bedroom. It isn't as cute as my furniture but it's good enough for 8 months!


So you can see the only part of the apartment that isn't unpacked is my dresser...because apparently jewelry boxes aren't in season? Very strange...



I have a really big bathroom too! Lots of storage space of all of my J&J goodies from the e-store!



So that's it. Casa de Andrea is ready for visitors!!!

All Settled in California

I finally arrived in California late Wednesday night and my apartment finally feels like home! I spent the end of the week and weekend unpacking.

All of my stuff that I shipped was supposed to arrive on Friday morning so on Thursday evening I decided to run to the grocery store. I returned to find that I had missed UPS so on Friday morning I had to carry all 13 of my boxes across the apartment complex and up 2 flights of stairs!!! It was my work out for the day!

Here are a few pictures of my new place...

This a picture of the complex from my porch



So I love being right by the pool but I accidently fell asleep and got very sunburned. I need SPF 50!


Here is my living room - I moved all the furniture around and now I finally like it!



Here is the view from my porch...


I have a pretty good size kitchen too!


I'll put up a few more pictures later.

Love and miss you all! I hope to see people the last weekend of March when I am home for our cousin Sara's bridal shower

St. Patrick's Day in Hoboken

This past weekend was the big St. Patrick's Day celebration in Hoboken. Andrea was in town and we had friends over our place to hang out and watch the parade. Hoboken gets a little out of control during the celebrations. The lines at the bars start around 8 AM!!! We didnt make it to the bars, but had plenty of fun enjoying green mimosas to start the day off right. We also watched the parade from our stoop, it doesn't get much better than that!

joke

Mr. Muldoon lived all alone in the Irish country side with only his dog for company. One day his dog died and Mr. Muldoon was beside himself. He went to his parish priest and asked if he could have a mass said foe his dog. The priest replied,"I am afraid not we can not say masses for animals in our church. You could try the Baptists done the lane who knows what they believe." Well thank you father " replied Mr Muldoon. I shall go right away, and Father do ya know how much of a donation I should make for such a service? Do you think $5000.00 is enough?"Father replied,"sweet Mary Mother of Jesus, son why didn't you tell me the dog was Catholic"

T.E.C.W.A.E.

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