I'm not hot shit in a wineglass, more curried goat in a paper cup

Have sat down and copied out the Google maps directions to how to get to where my brother lives. Writing it by hand rather than printing it out gives me a better understanding of what I'm doing/where I'm going, which I really need and need to REMEMBER that I need after getting myself so damned lost on Sunday. An hour and a half to make a twenty minute drive... I'm still pissed. And I put his phone number and street address and our phone number on the card, and Eor's number at work. I should write to Eightball and find out when he's working on Thursday and Friday and whether Madison Square Park is someplace he can get me to by 9am. I get to have a shake at the infamous Shake Shack! *dances*

I'm excited! And nervous about the driving, and going to miss eor like WHOAH. :( But this still is the coolest and longest trip I've ever taken under my own power and if I can pull this off by myself it will be good for my confidence, I think. I usually depend on Eor to make the plans and get me places at the right time and figure it all out, and that's really probably not so good for my brain, relaxing like that.

I want carrot cake. My grandmother W. used to make carrot cake as my birthday cake, and I haven't had any in so long.

I got my time off approved, and cyberquail has put the deposit down on the cottage...

We are going to England!

For the week starting Saturday, April 4, 2009, myself, eor, cyberquail, her BF and another friend of hers are going to be at a cottage in Skypton! (Well, we might be travelling on Saturday, or spending a little time looking around London, but we'll hopefully work those details out soon.) It's been hard to contain myself from posting until we had even this much of the details worked out, I'm so psyched! :) Today I got myself a day planner for 2009 and filled in that week E N G L A N D. :D

Bodies still buzzing from 13 hours in the car.  And probably from four hours sleep and then eating nothing but chips, cheese and ice-cream all day, and drinking as much water and caffeine as we could without stopping every four miles. 

Now, some real food.  And possibly collapsing.  We thought we might do laundry and grocery shopping, but...  not right now.

(Another backdated entry - I'm writing this almost a week later, so some details have already gone out of my head.)

( returning the dog )
( a walk in the woods )
( breakfast )
( real estate )
( music )
( stargazing )

Hey, I got notified of my own birthday. :)  Yup, that's right, I'm officially old as of tomorrow, but I don't care - it's my birthday and I'm getting all excited about it.  We're going to Ohio and get to feast on cyberquail's amazing cooking and go to the ren faire, and I'm just all psyched. :) 

My squee is a bit repressed because today was so odd at work, as I'm sure you can imagine.  But people actually took it well, today.  If it drags on they won't be taking it near as well, later on.  And some of our procedures really need to be worked out a little better.  The poor kid who was put in charge of gate screening, today, didn't get breaks at all.  He was all "oh, I don't really mind," he's very laid back, but that doesn't work for day after day.  Anyway, it wasn't too horrible for me, except that I got like twice as much x-ray time as usual because they had me helping two different trainees, and my eyes are damned tired of trying to pick out small containers of liquids/pastes/gels.  That's not so easy.

Going to pack up the car, now.  Wish us luck not hitting any deer, this time. ;)  You probably won't hear from me again until Tuesday.

I'll miss you all while I'm sitting on the beach! :) 

See you in a week and a day! :)