Going, going, GONE!!! (part III)

I am officially gone.  I left LA this morning & I am spending tonight in Phoenix... woot?  I went to workout already & ordered pizza for dinner (Denny's just didn't sound that good...)  Phoenix is HOT.  & kinda humid... but hey.  Tomorrow, I will spend all day on an AIRPLANE and then wake up in LONDON on Friday! :)

The best part about this whole thing... is that my bag only wheighed 28 lbs.  WOW.  I am so proud of me.  Good thing too... because I don't think that I would be able to carry a 50 lb. bag around... haha.  I think that all of my bags together (1 carryon, a backpac

k, & my suitcase) all wheigh 50 lbs if you put them all together... ;-)

So now all I ha

ve to do is sit back, relax, and have a grand ol' time here in this lovely, dinky Phoenix hotel.

.. :)  And make sure that I get to the airport tomorrow morning... haha.

Oh yeah... and in honor of tomorrow being September 11th/Patriot 

Day, God Bless America.

:)

No more work!!! (at least for now...)

Yesterday was my last day of work! Wooooo hooooooo! When I got home, I was so tired that I couldn't even do anything. I just sat around. Great celebration, I have to say.

So that means that I am leaving in 3 days!!! I am all packed and ready to go (minus the meds that are supposed to come in the mail tomorrow...) but still have to wait for 3 days... oh well. It will be quite fun, just sitting around not doing much.

Before I leave I have a few things that I still have to take care of... including calling the bank to tell them that I am leaving the country, clean my room, clean the bathroom, and apparently wash the car. Woot? I also have to go to the doctor one last time tomorrow and have lunch with Sammi on Tuesday (lunch is definitely a REQUIREMENT for me to leave the country... haha).

It has been weird not being at school for the past week, but it has definitely been nice. When Cal Lu started school on Wednesday, I got to sleep in, go to the doctor, and stop by work. It was pretty amazing. I guess that's all for now... I don't think that I will be writing here again until I get to London on Friday!!!

:)

Going, going, GONE (part II)

I just got back from Ohio (visiting family) and I'm leaving in 6 days to leave the country!!! But before I get to that, I have to revisit the ROAD TRIP to Denver!

We headed up to Denver the weekend before the DNC to finish moving Lisa into her apartment. On the way there, Tina, Lisa, and I all rode together in Lisa's car and mom & dad drove the van. Before we had really even gotten anywhere, we stopped for gas, and when we were leaving, there was a huge pothole in the parking lot. That Lisa decided to drive right into, even with Tina in the front seat, screaming "BIG HOLE! BIG HOLE!!!!!!" It was actually rather amusing... we were all fine, and so was the car, so it was all okay.

Later on in the trip, we were driving along in the middle of nowhere NM (or CO) and it started to smell like skunk really bad... but me in all my Jenious, said the following "Mmmm! It smells like COW." To which Lisa responded "or skunk..." Yes. I know my animal smells, I promise...

That night we stayed in Colorado Springs at a nice little hotel where Lisa, Tina & I shared a room. It was, of course, the night that Obama announced that Joe Biden would be his running mate, so Tina and I were having a random political discussion while we were laying in bed:
K: I keep on getting emails from Howard Dean and Tom McMahon.
T: I keep on getting emails from MoveOn.org
L: I keep on getting emails from a random pregnacy site. And they called me once...
To which Tina and I could not restrain ourselves... because it was sooooo random & hilarious, especially since Lisa was half asleep! :)

So then the next night we went to the Rockies game (and got Todd Helton bobbleheads!) but I needed to get mom a birthday present, so I was going to get her a Rockies shirt to wear! So Tina and my mom and I went over to the store on the street corner opposite the stadium and while I was "trying on shirts," the following conversation took place:
M: Do you have any money?
K: No...
M: I'll lend you some then
K: Tina, can I borrow some money?
T: (to mom) I think you should go outside...

And then of course, there was lunch the next day. We were talking about the people in church (because that's what we do) and what they were wearing. Tina had missed the memo to bring nice clothes, so she just wore her pirate T-shirt (which I think was nice enough... I mean PIRATES! come on...) So I said "and then there was that girl in the pirate shirt." To which Tina replied "yeah, she was pretty sketchy." And Lisa, totally missing the point said "Missed that" while looking directly at Tina. Who was STILL WEARING THE PIRATE SHIRT. lol.

Also at lunch, Tina said "so when we werein England, we didn't realize that it was illegal to pet the sheep." Need I say more?

And either at lunch or dinner, I was taking my lovely meds & mom was nagging me about how I was taking them:
K: I have enough water! (shaking my glass at mom)
T: I think those pills are giving Kelley turrets
K: (after choking on my drink b/c it was funny...) That wasn't water that came out of my nose!

And then there's Lisa who said "Maybe I'll keep my room clean." Need I say more?

And of course, the word of the weekend "Histarious," made up by Lisa. Good thing she got into grad school...

Ohio was wonderful! It was nice to see the family & celebrate my grandma's birthday & my grandparent's 59TH wedding anniversary! Lisa and I surprised them by singing at the church service on Sunday morning, which was really wonderful.

I guess the most exciting part about the whole trip was getting home & finding my plane tickets to Austria in the front door! I am almost officially set to go! I just need to finish packing my bag... and make sure that it is under 50 lbs. I finally have everything I need. In fact, I could leave tomorrow & be all set for the whole semester (I think...)

I just have to say, it's really weird not being in school right now. Cal Lu started yesterday... and most everyone I know has already gone back (except maybe the UC students...). It just seems like I should be doing school work. But instead, I start orientation on the 15th... and school on the 29th... which is a full month later than I normally do. It's just odd.

:)

Going, going, GONE (part I)

In a few days I will be leaving my lovely house for a couple of days to go to DENVER! Now, I wish I could say that I'm doing something awesome while I'm there, like going to the CONVENTION... but no. I'm helping my big sis move into her apartment in Denver... and we will be in the lovely city for about 24 hours... LAME. We will be gone by the time that the convention starts on Monday morning... and I will be back at work. It's really too bad that we planned this trip so poorly... but I guess it will be cool to see the apartment & hang out for a day in Denver!

A few other things to note... since it's maintenance week(s) at the pool, I have been CLEANING a lot lately... on Monday I got to clean lockers & stainless steel all day while yesterday I got to clean tiles in the therapy pool locker room & some more stainless steel! Oh man, that was fun (not...). In addition to those, I got to clean out my bowels last night. I cannot begin to tell you how EXCITING that was... NOT. I think I'm going to go back to bed soon so that I don't have to think about how hungry I am before my stupid procedure at 3 PM today... I mean, who schedules a colonoscopy, which requires fasting, FOR THREE IN THE AFTERNOON??? Whatever. That just means that I get to actually nap today... :D

And lastly, I am SUPER STOKED about going to AUSTRIA! My mom finally picked up my travel guide yesterday, so now I'm reading about all sorts of exciting places that I get to go! :) I'm pretty much set as far as things that I need to take with me... I just need to cut it down to less than 50 lbs. so that I can take it all with me! That has been the hard part, along with finding something to pack in... the bag that Lisa & Mom think that I should take seems to be tooooooo big so I will probably overpack it... so I'm going to see if I can find something a little bit smaller & a little bit lighter... that will help a lot... we will see though.

Well, in 30 (ish) hours I'm off to Denver! :)

13, 34, 38

Well, the triathlon is in 13 days! I'm not sure if I'm going to be ready for it, but I'm going to do it and FINISH whether I am or not... I'm quite excited though. A real triathlon? Ha. All I have ever done was the silly "kid's tri" that is not nearly as long or hard... and I did it when I was 14 (& younger), which is totally different than doing it now... and full triathlon length.

In 34 days, I will be done with WORK! I think I will make enough money from this summer so that I don't go completely broke when I go abroad in 38 days! Oh my gosh. It's coming up soooo fast! My mom has been telling me that she's worried that I won't be ready in time because I don't seem to realize how soon I'm leaving. I've just been so busy with work that I haven't taken the time to realize it! I think that I will be ready, it just seems like I'm not noticing it coming. Which maybe I'm not. Although I think I have the essentials of going... I just need to get the rest of my meds & a few other things that I will probably be able to live without, it would just be nice to have them.

:)