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Less then thirty days and what I do no will have me at the airport very calm. Sure it will....
A month before we are to leave for our trip my DD asked me if I would like to have her to get out my luggage and I quickly jumped at the chance. There are bags to go inside of bags. The toiletry bag was too full the first time I tried to see what I could stuff in it. My DD came in in my bedroom last night and quickly took out six packs of tissues, and twenty bars of hand soaps made with goat's milk.
We have plans my DSIL and me for me to just walk on and off the bus and he will tote my stuff as well as his. Good plan, great guy. But I still have plans to travel light for both our sakes.
The first thing I lost was two batteries for my camera, my tooth brush and holder. The toothbrush and holder turned up in another suitcase.
Now, I could really travel light and take two pairs of jeans that would wear well for four days each but I am not going to do that. Don't ask me how I know that. Every try to stretch jeans for a more easy fit. I will tell you by the fourth day you are in comfort-plus land. I will tell you that I could easily get away with three pairs of jeans and one dress slacks but I have room to pack more jeans so once again I will stuff my suitcases.
My wardrobe tees are from comfort-plus land but I ended up with six of two colors. Have four other tees for a change of color.
The easiest things to forget are the things you are still using daily now like any prescription bottles, plus your Passporter book and forms. Don't forget your father's teeth cup holder. He may use it the night before the flight but he is going to want it with him. You forget that and he is going to keep his teeth in a glass in the bathroom each night for the whole week.
Whe we use to leave for Florida for the winter I would open up the back door of the cap of the truck and throw everything in but the kitchen sink. I didn't need a list or charts and didn't even forget the vacumn broom.
Now for a week I need months of preperation, countless lists, and a typewritten verse on it to read before I lose my temper. The verse is so long that by the time I finish reading it I have forgotten what made me angry.
Actually I am a sweet ole lady with friends and strangers but can flare up with my family. Okay DH, time for a 'time-out for the ole lady and a rest period.' See you in a bit, DM.
The next thing to do is the bathing suit. Straight across it is an unravelled seam. Time to practice sewing and fix it. Then to test it under the shower with me in it.
I am not buying a new bathing suit. This suit may be ten or twenty years old but I never looked better in it and I will only be wearing it one time.
Not sure of the age of the bathing suit but it was the time when at the end of summer they charged twenty-five dollars for any left over bathing suits.
There were these two cool cover-ups that my DH gave me one Christmas from a mall in Floriday before 1990. They were great to wear in the hot early days of fall there and spring too for a dress. Now they are only good to run to the shower in. Still....I wonder.
Yup come time to leave and I will be the first one in the car for the trip to the airport hotel. Nana will be up first and ready to roll.
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So we sent in our registeration fees for the Meets and I hope some will recoginize my name badge and we can gab some. Looking forward to putting a few faces with names.
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