Daily Archives: Saturday December 15th, 2007

I’m here on the flight to Seattle.  Very pleased to be heading there then LA.  =)  Been dozing on and off during the flights.  I’m hoping that I’ve done enough dozing that I don’t feel totally drained when I get home.   I would like to be able to visit with my husband and cats and maybe get some work done.  Putting away my clothes will have to wait until Monday.  I have way too much to do.

My flight from Seattle to Portland will take more time to board and deboard then the flight…..lol  It is suppose to be only about 50 minutes.  It is on a different airline, a small one, part of Alaska Airlines called Hudson Air…..I faintly remember the name, luckily I have about 90 minutes just in case the gate is a long distance.

My lips have been having issues with staying moist since the beginning of Dec. and flying makes it worst.  I have no idea why, been having to use lots of blist stick.  I may have to find something different. …strange

Last night I had to do another errand.  Which kind of annoyed me since I didn’t want to have to do that on my last day.  But it couldn’t be avoided.  So I took the kids and was able to spend some quality aunt time with them.  Since they didn’t have school the next day they were able to stay up a little later for that.  Otherwise my time has been with helping them with their homework.

On the way back from the errand we drove through a local park to see the xmas lights.  They really enjoyed that, so that was neat.

Dad was able to get one of the other pcs online by hardware yesterday and got ton updates from windows installed.  So that was cool.  The computers are older and would need to have wireless cards put in to use the network.  With all the games and things the kids on them, I told him I think it would be more of an issue then it is worth unless he reformatted them and started over.  So dad is going to hardwire them, when they finally get new computers they will have the wireless in them and wouldn’t have the issue with jumping on the network I got started.  So that is cool.

It was nice to visit with my family.  Mom was in her baking moods, got to have fresh apple pie, banana bread, regular bread, she also made some of her potato & egg salad, even gave me some before adding the onion……..mmmm  It was great. I got to have Chinese last night.  I don’t get the opportunity to have that very often, but other than the kids, my family loves it.  =)

Like I said in my last post, I got all of my family xmas presents done and even got most of Harold’s.  Just have 2 more things that I want to get, so I need to order them online.  I’m very pleased by that.  =)

**I’m currently in Seattle.  I didn’t realize until we started to arrive that I was hungry.  Thankfully NWA actually gave me a $10 certificate to use for food in the airports, so I’m putting it to use………..grin

It feels good to be back in the same timezone as Harold and so close to finish line.

It is hard to believe that xmas is right around the corner………icks  I only have about 11-12 days to enjoy my tree.

I’ll get this posted when I get the chance.

Well, I’m finally here in Minn……..totally, missed my connection.   It won’t bother me if it wasn’t for the fact that we left Indy due to “staffing issues” and not the weather.  I expected weather issues, that is a risk that you take when you fly, especially during the winter.  But the “staffing issues” reason really annoyed me.  They really need to get more pilots hired.  I arrived over 2 hrs early for my flight and it already had a 30min delay.  By the time we finally got staffed, they had to de-ice the plane……doh….the snow was moving in.

They did have some of themselves together by having everyone who missed their flight new itinerary and boarding passes ready.  So we moved through rather quickly, but I then I had find another agent, because they had me going through LA and not getting in until 5:30 Portland, when I was suppose to be there by 11:08am…..I did not want to go through LA……….yuck!

I explained myself to the agent….my flight was 2 hrs late and they have coming in over 6hrs later…..and the LA factor.  Well, the next direct flight to Portland was overbooked by 10, so that was out…..and other one didn’t get in until after 7pm, I didn’t want that even with a 1st class upgrade.  But she did find me one to Seattle and then to Portland and I got about 2hrs back.  I so rather deal with Seattle.  So that was cool and so much better.
I guess my luggage is scheduled to take the next direct Portland flight, so it should be waiting for me.  I’ll have to talk to someone to get it since it will be removed from the luggage claim after awhile, that will be different.

Over all, I’ve been lucky when traveling until today….the only other delay I’ve ever had was due to weather….so no big deal…..I just really hated the reason for this delay….
Looks like I got some sort of voucher for my trouble………Either way I should get back home sometime tonight.

I’m here at a bar in the Indy airport, had a quick breakfast to to justified me sitting here using their plug for my laptop…..lol

Got through checkin and security, get to my gate and find that there is now a half hour delay and moving of the gates.  So when I get to Minn, it will be very tight on time to get to my connection.  That is annoying, but it can be done.

I don’t browser Indiana news very often, so I didn’t see it, but found out that starting sometime in 2008 the new airport will open.  According to the TSA guy, I’ll have to get on to I-70 from 465 instead of just right off of 465.  They need a new airport here, but I know this one so well, that when I get off the plane I could get to luggage pick up with my eyes closed………..lol

No snow here yet, they don’t expect it to hit until later this morning after my flight has left.

I was thinking of getting somethings done, but way too out of it to think.  So I’m going to get my gate and nap.  =)