"trepidation" written by Fellyconnelly on estrip.org

04/29/08 09:00 - 38ºF - ID#44180

trepidation

In three days I will be in the air on my first plane trip ever. I know I keep blatherin on about it, but the excitement is unbeleiveable.

what IS unfortunate, however, is the lack of free time i am about to have between now and then. Today I am working till 830 in lockport. and I have agreed to be in springville at 730 to do the monthly inventory. Why? because I feel as though if I agree to tackle the unpleasant administrative tasks I will be looked upon as a leader in the company and thus aquire a)better job security and b) OVERTIME!

Tomorrow night is all about packing. Laundry. Packing. preparation. Because i work all day on thurs and as SOON as we get home we have to hit Sheas. Which I have never been to. Where do I park? how early before a show should I be there?

Come home and try to sleep? because we have to be at the airport at 430 am. Where do i park? ahhh its all new to me. Trepidation! trepidation! And how much is airport parking? booooooo expensivo!

tinypliny writes at 02:06:25 04/30/08 - Comment #34561: But then I never flew till I came here at 25. That was a long gap and things had changed so much by then. The flights were packed, and I didn't really get that much candy. I think I got more cheese and yoghurt than candy. It was Air-France. What else could you expect?

tinypliny writes at 02:01:25 04/30/08 - Comment #34560: I think I flew first when I was 9 years old. My grandpa had died and my mum was crying all the way. Her eyes were so swollen she couldn't see us anymore, I think. The plane was half-empty and my brother and I ran up and down the plane till the stewardess got pissed and did everything but tie us to our seats. She wasn't very successful in controlling us and hit upon the classic tactic of cookie-toffee-bribes. By the end of the 3 hour flight my bro and I had a fabulous booty to split. I thick the inventory ran thus: 7 cookies, 12 chocolate bars, 5 hard-toffees and one bag of chips each. We never told mom or things might have turned confiscation/scolding-ugly heheheh. Ah. Good times. :)

jenks writes at 12:06:20 04/30/08 - Comment #34550: cabs to the airport are about $25 each way. From my house, for one person, at least... Parking at the airport is $10/day in "long term preferred" (no shuttle required) or like $8/day in the "long term" lot, that is a shuttle-ride away from the terminal. So I always figure it depends on how long I'm going for. If it's more than 5 days, a cab is cheaper. Or, if you can get a ride on the way back, take a cab for the early morning?

Either way, have a great trip. Flying is no big deal. :)

fellyconnelly writes at 05:39:23 04/30/08 - Comment #34544: thanks for the info guys! and (e:drew) - thanks for the offer, we have gotten several and I just cant bring myself to allow anybody to get up that early!

this plane trip will somehow be amazing. even if (e:lauren) dreads the flight.

paul writes at 10:17:49 04/29/08 - Comment #34530: My first plane trip sucked. I was 18 and we were flying to South Carolina. Somehow I got pressure behind my eye and I thought it was going to pop out of my head. I remember holding it in, hoping I didn't lose it before we landed. Never happened after that - so it must have just been a freak thing.

mrmike writes at 09:45:32 04/29/08 - Comment #34527: You can park at the Market Arcade parking lot for two bucks and just cut through the movie theater to get to Sheas

drew writes at 09:34:00 04/29/08 - Comment #34523: If you don't want to park at the airport, I think I can do a drop off and/or pick-up.

james writes at 09:07:15 04/29/08 - Comment #34522: Enjoy your trip.

Parking at Sheas is right where you parked to go to Marchella's. Parking at the airport is clearly labeled and is about $8 a day I believe.

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Location: New Paltz, NY

04/26/08 07:58 - 63ºF - ID#44148

days off in hell

Yesterday was shopping for Florida day. Let me inform you that shopping for a swimsuit is probably the most horrifying adventure that a chick with an extra pound (or two) could experience. First of all, everywhere I went the bathing suits were either:

A) 2 piece
B) Adorned with rhinestones
C) adorned with gaudy flowers
D) Ludicrously expensive
E) GOLD. Yes GOLD.

It was not the most pleasant experience. I haven't been in a bathing suit in over ten years. I feel quite exposed. I felt on several occasions that a wetsuit covered with a mumu would probably be the sexier option.

More importantly... yet another battle at buffalo tonight, if anyone here is interested! BUFFALO BREAKDANCING! WOOOO!

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Category: good reads

04/23/08 10:26 - 56ºF - ID#44121

dirty smut

I've been listening to a book on tape - a really random gross one that I didn't realize was more of a romantical book than a historical fiction - which is more my interest. So of course today on my way home from work I was subjected to about 15 to 20 minutes of a sex scene that uses delightful words such as "member" and "maidenhood".

Oh and incidentally, part of the reason the sex scene was so long was because they had to keep pausing to wonder aloud if the ghost of his grandfather was watching. Or to describe, in detail, the number of petticoats the young gent had to fight his way through to do his husbandly duty and officially make her his wife. BLAH!

Point of the story? I was pulling into the city when I realized my face hurt from the awful jaw dropping expression that was apparently plastered all over my face during the entire drive.

Apparently listening to heterosexual romance sex scenes set in medieval england during my long drive just doesn't do it for me.

but on a brighter note - three years ago today lauren and i made out for like 3 hours at the bar. happy anniversary love!

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Location: New Paltz, NY

Category: randomo

04/22/08 08:51 - 57ºF - ID#44095

Name That Bum!

Every time I go to the zoo i get faced with animal bums. so here is a fun new game for all of us to enjoy... NAME THAT ANIMAL BUM!!!

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and we have to check out (e:lauren)'s bum while she checks out animal bum.

and, oh my goodness look how (e:lauren) has shrunk!

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Category: randomo

04/21/08 05:21 - 76ºF - ID#44087

more

I'm at work.... and its slow. Watching a kid across the street trying to bust his face open by riding his bike up a makeshift ramp. I'm afraid to look away in case he succeeds.

otherwise, the day is slow. dull. boring.

yesterday I enjoyed the 420 holiday by taking care of (e:lauren)'s hungover butt. We watched movies (i am normally too antsy for movies) which included Liar Liar and Pirates of the Caribbean. It was kinda as if the cable company knew that everybody would be stoned and ready to zone out to stupid movies all night.

today was my day to go back on my diet. i cheated soooo much in the past few days. so far so good.

i need to make up a list of all the things that I need to do before the trip, so i don't have to think about it.

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Location: New Paltz, NY

04/20/08 05:41 - 70ºF - ID#44069

hungover sunday

Spent last night at my grams. Good times, good times. Of course i didn't bring my phone charger so my battery was dead.

(e:lauren) took the opportunity to go out without me. Which is why she is sitting on the couch in pain today. Poor little hungover lady. apparently if she is not concentrating her efforts on keeping me from drinking too much and being ridiculous, she is, herself, getting ridiculous... poor drunk lady...

and of course she got to admit how it was better the other way around because when i was the one with the hangover she got to make me wrong for it. Thats my girl.

back to laundry

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04/19/08 08:16 - 55ºF - ID#44051

ZOOmalaFLOO

We spent yesterday at the Toronto Zoo. Here is a recap of a couple important things.

1. Canadian drivers can be scary at times.

2. FOcusing on the inner set of numbers on the spedometer instead of the outer set of numbers can be distracting. It doesn't matter though because apparently 100kh speed limit does not actuallymean 60mph, it means 85 mph.

3. Except when you are trying to leave around 5 pm on a friday night. then 100kph means 3 mph then 0mph then 4 mph for 2 hours.

4. The toronto zoo needs to stop expanding their exhibits. Why? because I thought my feet were going to fall off during the 4 hour walk we took around the zoo, and several exhibits weren't even open.

5. Why is it that every time I go to visit a damn zoo the polar exibits are closed? The tundra was being built, along with the australian and canadian exhibits. I know I know, if I want to see some damn penguins i should just go to the aquarium. But dammit!

6. The rumors of Toronto being a very clean city apparently do not apply to the smog that looms everywhere. But being a city of such ridiculous size, I bet its hard to not have smog.

7. Does anybody know the real reason that when your car goes through the border patrol, and you stop at the gate to talk to the nice man who has a lovely border patrol script that he is reading to you... why is the pavement angled so your car is tilted like 40 degrees and there is a grate udnerneath the middle of the car? are there people under there?

8. My collection of photos of animal asses is increasing nicely.

9. Happy Birthday Grandpap.

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04/16/08 08:42 - 41ºF - ID#44027

drill sargeant maxx

My cat is sitting on the floor waiting for me to come do my morning stretches and exercises. He stretches next to me. And by stretches, I mean flopps his ass on my head.

I had a dream that I had my dachshund finally... and of course somehow that equated to my friend's bulldog humping my leg.

My fridge is empty. Well not too empty. Hummus, mushrooms and celery should make a delightful lunch for me today, shouldn't it?

dammit. the cat is like my own damn personal trainer. He is meowing at me and just inserted his claws into my leg. I guess that means its time for exercise. Bastard.

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04/14/08 07:54 - 35ºF - ID#44006

I'm blind!

I broke my glasses yesterday. BOOOOO no vision on my health coverage. Or should i say BOOO me for not adding the vision part to my health coverage.

I gotta run to work early and stop off at walmart's vision center and just see if they will sell me some frames for my lenses. i did that last time from sear's optical center.

i'm not impressed with spending extra cabbage this close to FL.

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Location: New Paltz, NY

Category: good times

04/13/08 11:25 - 37ºF - ID#43996

Schedule of EVENTS

Lets see... times comin for some fun!

Friday we are going to the Toronto Zoo. My aunt and cousin were going to come with us, but apparently not.

My parents are coming up to visit my grandparents that day as well. Haven't gotten to see them for a while, so Saturday after work I'm headin directly up to see them. Probably spend the night at my grams and come back sunday afternoon.

Lauren has about 200 scribbles on her calendar for the monday through thursday of that week - all those scribbles being final this due, rough this due, presentation this, etc. In other words, don't talk to her or she may flip her lid.

The 24th is our 3 year anniversary. (3 years? that seems like such a short period of time, and yet neither of us have ever made it this long!) I feel like we've been together forever.

the 26th is the next Battle at Buffalo.

the 1st is Avenue Q at Sheas.

THe 2nd we somehow make it to the airport at 4 am and head to Florida.

WHEW~! what a busy time of year?

Oh and then when we get back we GET A PUPPY!!!