I didn't sleep at all well Monday night, and ended up talking to my friend Brian online about how much living far away from your family/friends sucks for a few hours. I still got up at 8 am though, said goodbye to Mom (that sucked), having already said goodbye to Dad when he woke me up a little earlier before he left for work. I finished packing, weighed my suitcase (40.5 lbs, way under the 50 lb limit), and piled everything next to the dining room table. I ate one of the doughnuts Mom left for me but was too antsy to eat the second one (I regretted it later; I NEVER get doughnuts and I love them so much), and read the newspaper til Lidia turned up. We dumped my stuff in her car and I said goodbye to the kitties. I told them to be good and not bug Mom too much, but they looked scornful at the mere idea of such a thing.
Lidia got me to the airport in good time and I hope she got to class in time afterwards...I forgot to txt her and ask...I had to stand in the most annoying line EVER at the counter. The most efficient woman helped about twenty people and then ONE person before I was up she was switched to helping people in the fast line who already had boarding passes printed out. The other people were tied up with two large families in total disarray, and a woman who seemed to have passport problems, so I stood at the front of the line for nearly eleven minutes before I was FINALLY seen. But I love JetBlue, so I'm hoping it was just an aberration. Plus your first bag flies free if it's under 50 lbs.
Security was a snap, even if the idiot behind me started piling his stuff in the tub I was going to use (I'd filled a tub with my sweater, shoes, purse, and clear plastic bag of toiletries and put it on the conveyer belt when he started throwing stuff in the tub beneath it) so I had to reach over him, grab another tub from another pile and put my laptop in it. He had the grace to look embarrassed.
Then when I got to my gate I spent half an hour trying to log onto the free wifi and it just WOULD NOT work even though I restarted my computer three times.
The flight from Orlando to Austin was nearly three hours and I managed to sleep most of it even though there were at least three crying babies.
Then Austin was incredibly boring because I only got half an hour of free internet that was VERY slow. So I ate my Rolos and Mentos and read my Kindle and waited as patiently as I could during the three hour layover.
The flight from Austin to Long Beach was okay; I couldn't sleep again, but I watched the Gators beat Georgia at basketball, which took up two of the three hours, and channel surfed for the last half-hour or so.
Then my bag was one of the first to come out of the carousel (I LOVE it when that happens!) and I dragged it over to the taxi stand and was home before seven pm. I unpacked everything before 8 and walked across to Hawaiian L&L Barbecue for dinner.
Then I showered, watched tv until midnight, and passed out. Today I got up at 10 am (I LOVE vacation time), made a grocery list, stopped at the bank for quarters, got my groceries, came home, put them away, and did my laundry. For dinner I roasted a chicken and had some with rice and acorn squash.
Anyway, that's all I can think of for now. Hmm...maybe I should watch a movie?
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