Countdown to Ireland & Scotland - Wednesday
OK, so its Wednesday, hump day. After today its all downhill to Friday, which still can't get here soon enough. Today going by in a timely manner probably won't happen, most likely due to the fact that I am exhausted. I did the geek thing again last night and my little brother and I caught a midnight showing of Spider-man 2. Let me tell you, awesome movie. Better than the first in every way, and by far the greatest comic book / superhero movie ever. Go see it now, you won't regret it. If you even moderately liked the first one, you'll love this one. The action / fight scenes were great, it was very funny in places and also very emotional. I think thats the draw of Spider-man, he's someone that a lot of people can relate to, because his real life sucks so much. So go see it, now!
In other news, picked up all the stuff I'm bringing for Elena yesterday and I have a packing dilemma. I got a very large and a medium sized duffell bag from her mom and I was just going to take everything in those two bags, but I'm not going to have enough stuff to fill them both. The point of bringing two is to have empty space so I can take her stuff back with me, but the problem lies in that I think with all the stuff I'm bringing for her and my stuff I may be over the weight limit and there is no way I'm paying $270 again for an overweight bag. I think I'm just going to have to pack the empty duffel bag in my suitcase along with all her stuff and my stuff, drag it to my mom's office and weigh it. Only way I'll know for sure. I'm not comfortable taking two half empty duffel bags, because whatever is in them will get crushed or thrown around, and thats not good. Hopefully I'll be under. I definitely think I'm taking less of her stuff than I did in February when I got nailed with the overweight charge. I'll have to pack tonight and weigh tomorrow to see.
Other than that nothing to report. The battery on my watch died last night in the movie so now I have no idea what time it is. Not a good thing to have a broken watch before you travel. It kind of helps to know what time it is while you're waiting around an airport or on a plane trying to figure out how much longer its going to take to land. I'm going to head out at lunch to see if I can get it fixed. If it takes awhile, I can borrow one of my dad's watches, I'll just have to have some links put back in, but that take 20 minutes, tops. I've had this watch since before I was 18, so I kind of want to hold onto it for as long as I can. Its got sentimental value. Before I headed off to college I had a geeky digital calculator watch, the kind that held phone numbers. I know, pathetic. So I wanted a real grown man's watch. So I asked my dad if I could go get one, he said yeah and gave me his credit card. Big mistake. So I went out and got the watch I wanted and it only cost $300. By today's standards of fancy watches, thats cheap (my mom paid well over a grand for a watch she gave my dad for the holidays). When I told my dad how much the thing cost he got a little pissed and insisted I pay him back for the full cost of the watch since I went a little nuts. I did, and so I'm kind of attached to it. Its a nice Swiss-Army Stainless Steel Officers watch. I must've gone through 4 batteries, one band, two crystals and a set of hands on this thing, but its still ticking. And I'd like to keep it that way. One day I'll get a new one, but not any time soon.
So thats about it. Trying to stay awake and kill the day. I can't get to London, Ireland or Scotland soon enough!
Comments
lol I say your dad actually got away easy with $300! For some reason my brother and boyfriend have super expensive tastes in watches, which is fine and all but Scott has a super expensive Rolex which he refuses to wear and I get upset because what's the point if you don't ever wear it?! For my dad's birthday a couple years ago I think my mom spent close to $10,000 on a watch for my dad. Originally he wanted it a couple years before that, we found it out of the country for half the price but he never got it. Once we got back and found it was a good deal earlier, then he decided he had to have it, even at the unreasonable cost here in the states!
Posted by: Jenniy | June 30, 2004 3:59 PM