Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Gobble! Gobble! Gobble!

Ok, So last minute I was able to get a good price for a flight to Oregon. It was going to be a quick trip (up on Thursday morning and back Friday morning). I got in to Portland about 10:30am, picked up the rental car and headed to my brother and sister in law's house in Parkdale. Mom called while I was on the way and wanted to pick up a newspaper that had the ads for Friday. I guess Michelle and Mom were going to brave the stores. I stopped in Hoodriver to pick up a paper and when I got out of the car I thought I was going to die. It was so cold! My lips instantly turned purple and frost covered my eyes. Ok, so I exaggerated a bit but it was damn cold. Got back in the car and headed on. I finally got to K & D's house only to find the their heater was set at 68 or 70 degrees. Ok, that's outside winter weather in Phx so needless to say I was cold. Mom and Michelle arrived and we ate shortly after. I didn't cook! I traveled over a 1000 Miles in the freezing cold, so I thought that I earned a pass on the cooking. After dinner, I took a nap after my brother gave me a heavy blanket to keep me warm.
Since Mom was going to Fallon for Christmas, she (or someone) decided to go ahead and do Christmas on Thanksgiving. I got some great things: Mom gave me some money to get a mani and pedi, Ken & Dawnell gave me a gift card to Nordstrom and Michelle gave me a great leather money clip, so photos of our trip to Europe and some picture frames for the pics that I already put up on my desk. I didn't get anyone anything! YET...... I didn't get my surprise done and their Christmas gifts were all related to the "Surprise". Ok, so about 9pm I decided to drive back to Portland since my flight was at 6am. My idea was to go and meet a few friends out for drinks for a little bit then stay at a hotel near the airport so I could sleep as much as possible before my 6am flight! Well, I had fun at the bar and didn't leave until somewhere around 2:30 or so. So, this meant I only had 2.5 hours until I had to be at the airport. I decided to drive to Jantzen Beach and go some food. Well, I ate but it didn't stay down. BAAAAAAAARFFFFFFF. Oh well, it passed some more time. At that point, I had 1.5 hours until I wanted to be at the airport. I decided to drive to the airport on the Washington side just to take up more time. I got the car returned, got my boarding pass printed and to the gate 35 minutes before take off. I was hurting badly! After we all boarded the plane, the pilot didn't have his id and took forever to get through security. The flight took off 45 minutes late. I slept pretty much the entire way back, lied down since no one was sitting next to me and woke up in phx. STILL F-ING TIRED! I went home and went to bed. Woke up to take a mortgage payment in for work then went back to bed. Don't remember Friday too much. UGH!
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