I can hardly believe it, but in less than 24 hours I'll be on my way to Ireland for the 3rd time since September 2008. Clearly I'm a sucker for punishment, but if you know me very well, you already knew that. ;)
I spent the day learning what veils go where in the church (veiling Saturday leading into the home stretch of Lent and the approach of Easter - hooray!), and running around trying to sort out last minute items I needed for the trip. I had a bit of an issue this morning when someone who was supposed to help with Saoirse backed out at the last minute...so it wasn't the best start to my day. After working at the church I went to Mountain Equipment Co-op for a few things and had a run-in with the parking ticket machine. That thing is soooooo....there are no polite words for it. It declined the $1.50 charge for an hour's parking on my credit card 3 times. Normally I would have just left, but it was a sunny day, and a cute guy with a motor bike had struck up a conversation with me about the darned machine and he offered to pay my parking. So, despite all the complaining I do about buses, and bad drivers and people in general, it's nice to be reminded that there are genuinely nice people out there that you're bound to encounter now and then. Didn't hurt that he was cute of course ;)
I then spent the evening doing laundry and searching for items I *know* I own and have laid hands on in recent history, and yet cannot find for the life of me. I miss the days when Marisa was my roommate...she had an uncanny knack for finding whatever I'd misplaced...although it was usually because she did lots of the cleaning/organizing and I was slightly oblivious. LOL Still...I miss our little hunts for missing items around the house. She would totally know where my luggage scale is if she still lived here...I'll have to settle for tearing things apart tomorrow before she arrives to drive me to the airport in the evening.
As for packing, well, it's a four-letter word at this point. The laundry's still in process (2 baskets of it still to be folded and inspected to determine if the contents are going along with me or not), and I don't know 100% which luggage I'm using yet. This has Saoirse all wound up, because the sight of ANY luggage tells her what's going on, and multiple pieces sitting open, well they become convenient places to take a nap. Very helpful. Everything will be covered in fur when I get to Dublin...good times!
On that note, with my sad kitty sleeping on the bed next to me as I type, I'm going to log off and try to get some sleep. I have lots to do in the hours between waking and departing tomorrow and I'm sure (experience has taught me this...) that I will end up running behind no matter how early I start on my list.
Dublin here I come!!!
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