Stuff I Need to Do Before I Go.

First, I really need to get my hair cut. But, I am thinking I will get it done when I am down South. I am fortunate that it is very difficult to give me a bad haircut so I think I will go into one of those chain hair-cut places in every mall and just get it done when I am on holiday.

I am still debating whether or not to take my laptop with me. It is a big heavy thing to lug on and off three planes. I usually carry a big black carry-on bag with all the necessities of travel but it isn’t big enough for my computer and the computer bag isn’t big enough {I don’t think} for all the necessities of travel. I am definitely ambivalent on this. One day it is yes, I will take it and stow the necessities somewhere about my person and other days it is no, I won’t take it because it is too big. I am very probably going to buy a digital camera when I am down South so that is yet another  thing I will have to carry back with me. There is no access to the Internet at the house of the son I will be staying with but there is at the other son’s house and he tells me there is access in a couple of places in the town where he lives. On the other hand, I can  get computer use for an hour every day at the library and I know I will be going there because I check out books to read while I am visiting. I have a library card used solely in the two weeks I am there once a year! Ok, I need to put out the travel necessities and see if they will fit into the computer bag. I don’t think they will, but I haven’t tried yet. In case you are wondering, the absolute necessities are passport and green card, ticket, money, Dramamine, small toothbrush and toothpaste, a hairbrush and a change of underwear in case my bag goes astray. Oh, and a book to read on the planes. Doesn’t seem like much when I list it. Hmmm…

Other things to do before leaving on Tuesday afternoon:

• get packing done Tuesday morning. This won’t be a lot because there is a washer and dryer I can use at my son’s house and I am going to buy some short-sleeved tops when I am there because all the spring/summer stuff will be out in the stores. {We still have sweaters in the stores here in Vermont! }
• get the laundry done on Monday. I have already reminded Fred that if he wants clean underwear and socks in the two weeks I will be gone, he must either give them to me on Monday or be prepared to go down two flights of stairs and do his own laundry while I am away!
• go to the last tutoring with Robin on Saturday. Make sure {and this means watch her write it on the calendar} she knows the dates I am gone.
• make a card with the planes numbers and the times for Fred. Make sure he has all contact numbers for me.
• send email to Mike and Melanie {landlords who live below us] with contact numbers in case anything happens to Fred.
• send email with contact numbers to my sister and brother-in-law in England in case they need to get in touch with me {Neither of them is in good health}
• make myself a card with all the contact numbers I need {both here and there}
• Make sure I have got all URLs and passwords for the bank on line and to access my email
• have all Verizon email sent to the other ISP. From past experience, Verizon netmail tosses me off line far too much when I am away from my home computer. The other ISP is much more reliable when composing mail on line on the library computers.
• I am fairly sure I have cards with the information needed in the previous three points but I need to check to be sure.
• have a massage on Sunday.

Until later…