Packing!

It took 2 days, 3 judges and a whole lotta downsizing. One thing I'm not very good at is packing lightly. 5 days, to me, is the equivalence of 5 months. I like to be prepared. If it's going to rain, I want rain clothes. If I have a chance to wine and dine with Billy Joel, I want to be ready. If it's the end of the world? Well, in that case I MUST look fabulous. And if fabulous is trekking everything I own through the Florida airport, so be it.

I'm also really great at exaggerating. I picked out 5 main outfits for 5 days there. A few extra shirts, not enough shoes and a great bag for each outfit. Each pair of pants also has a specifc underwear assignment that I keep track of through my clothing Rolodex. For example:

Floridian Meteorologist: Hurricane Zelnorm has just hit.

Me: (grabbing my Rolodex out of my bag) Hurry! Mario! Quick! Find me SanFransisco tent pants and H&M $4 perfect black shirt! (#3!)

And just by looking under T (for tent pants) it gives the underwear listed that MUST be worn underneath.

It was just an example. I really don't think thats what I'd like to be wearing during a hurricane. Something more in the likeness of an adult diaper, adorned with a decorative brooch, perhaps.

Here I was thinking that seeing Mario was the big deal. Packing was obviously a bigger ordeal. Seeing him again will just be another walk in the park.

Ha. I actually believed that sentence for a second.

Wish me luck.

See you all in a week!

 

This Flight Tonight - Joanie Mitchell

Look out the left the captain said
The lights down there, that’s where we’ll land
I saw a falling star burn up
Above the las vegas sands
It wasn’t the one that you gave to me
That night down south between the trailers
Not the early one
That you can wish upon;
Not the northern one
That guides in the sailors

Oh starbright, starbright
You’ve got the lovin’ that I like, all right
Turn this crazy bird around
I shouldn’t have got on this flight tonight

You got the touch so gentle and sweet
But you’ve got that look so critical
Now I can’t talk to you baby
I get so weak
Sometimes I think love is just mythical
Up there’s a heaven
Down there’s a town
Blackness everywhere and little lights shine
Oh, blackness, blackness dragging me down
Come on light the candle in this poor heart of mine

Oh starbright, starbright
You’ve got the lovin’ that I like, all right
Turn this crazy bird around
I shouldn’t hove got on this flight tonight

I’m drinking sweet champagne
Got the headphones up high
Can’t numb you out
Can’t drum you out of my mind
They’re playing goodbye baby, baby goodbye,
Ooh, ooh, love is blind
Up go the flaps, down go the wheels
I hope you got your heat turned on baby
I hope they finally fixed your automobile
I hope it’s better when we meet again baby

Starbright, starbright
You got the lovin’ that I like, all right
Turn this crazy bird around
I shouldn’t have got on this flight tonightUntil then...