12/31/03

We just spent three hours running all over the place trying to buy all the shit we needed to buy before our unexpected flight to Oklahoma. First, we needed cat food and dog food, simple? Not quite. The brand of cat and dog food we buy is only sold at a few places, heh, places that happen to be closed on New Years eve!!! So we ended up at Petsmart spending forever reading labels trying to find something with high quality ingredients and no by-products. The stuff we normally buy is made with only human-grade ingredients. I could safely eat it if I want to, not that I would want to. *shrug*

Then I needed a product called Earplanes. They equalize the pressure in your ears. You see, I have inner ear problems and my ears refuse to pop on an airplane so if I don’t have them I will be sitting with my head between my knee’s in tears when we go to land. That and I won’t be able to hear anything for about 3 days. First we go to CVS, CVS has nothing, not a thing for ears, not even plugs or drops, not a damned thing. CVS obviously doesn’t give two shits about anyone’s ears. So then we go to K-Mart, K-Mart doesn’t have it either, so we end up going back to Walgreens and Walgreens had them, yay!!! Wal-Mart carries them but god forbid we go there, I hate Wal-Mart with a burning passion. Wal-Mart is my personal hell.

We went to dinner at Chili’s, mmmmm Chili’s. Remind me not to go there in the evening ever again. Our waiter was slow and the place was full of screaming children. *cringes*

3 hours later we finished a trip that should have taken, oh, an hour and a half at most. *frowns*

We leave tomorrow, our flight leaves at 1:47pm. We’ll probably leave here around 10:30am or so, we have to get the car parked and everything. We have a two and a half hour layover at Dallas/Fort Worth. I’m just going to stick to optimism and say, plenty of time to have dinner, heh. I was checking the flights too and they’re all full, as a matter of fact I think the second leg of the flight home is overbooked, we have no seat-numbers for that part on our tickets and that’s the only reason why I can figure. As long as I actually get a seat I’m fine with it. If not I’m not going to be a happy camper b/c we picked an early flight on the way home on Sunday for a reason, we have to get up at 5am and go to work the next day.

Flying is so hectic, in a way I’m looking forward to it but in a way not. My dad though, god, he’s so annoying. He said “Okay, well come by after you’re in town”. I was like “Dude, our flight doesn’t get in until 8:30pm, it’d be 9-9:30 before we could” That was alright by him. *Bangs head on desk* Fine, but the visit is going to have to be really short because 9pm Central time is like 10pm Eastern and my ass is going to be tired. I might call him from the hotel and tell him where to stick it.

My dad said he had some important stuff to talk to me about before the funeral. He said he was going to e-mail me, but he hasn’t. He did e-mail me and ask how we got the money for the airline tickets so quickly. I thought that was rather rude, well dad, I robbed a bank, c’mon dude, I have credit cards, jeez. Anyway, I wish he’d fucking tell me what’s so important because now I’m anxious about it. I can only sit around and speculate what he might have to tell me. Do I have to get up and say something in front of everyone? Does he know there’s going to be people there I really don’t want to see like my ex-step-mother? Does he want to discuss the will? WHAT ALREADY???? I hate when people leave me hanging like this.

My mom e-mailed me last night too, she wanted to know if I was going to be offended if she didn’t go to the funeral. *sigh* She said she’d do whatever made me happy. I told her it wasn’t necessary. My parents have been divorced nearly 20 years, I can understand that she doesn’t feel any particular closeness with my dads side of the family. I told her that no, I wouldn’t be offended if she didn’t go. She also asked if I thought she should call my dad, I told her to do what felt right to her.

This is so hectic, I feel bad about being annoyed but I can’t help it. Traveling halfway across the US on 2 days notice. Dealing with my dad who drives me insane on a good day. *sigh* I’m kind of looking forward to kicking back on the airplane and reading.

Anyway, I should probably go. I have a lot to do still to get ready for tomorrow.

Later.