Just A Small Town Girl

"artificial sugar is tricksy and false. we wants the precious!"
-brenna

next update will be from london.

stupid ocean.

WHERE THE HELL IS NEMO??

found my sheet. found my winter clothes. found my bike lock keys-both of them. (dunno why i felt the need to bring both home.) found books i left last time. found everything except nemo, dammit!

argh. i'm cleaning/mentally packing (estimating how much stuff needs to go into suitcases and what the best way is to put it in.) despite buying almost nothing this trip home (a few books, a couple of needful kitchen items, macaroni&cheese), i think i have far too many things to pack. i'd forgotten about the winter clothes and coat i left. damn.

last night was fun. hung out with brenna and jenn (aria13 and cheekybaby) at bahama breeze, where leigh works (lbwsampson.) we didn't leave until it was nearing midnight. we talked to laura and bethany (glamorousnj and greatguru) on jenn's phone. there was an argument with a certain silly scot who insists i have an english accent via brenna's phone. there were many moments of hilarity, and someone (brenna?) has a paper with quotage that will appear on lj at some point.

and now i need to get some food and then resume the cleaning/packing bit. i'm hopeful my room can look fit for human habitation AND i can be mostly packed by tonight. and then we'll see if anything on my grocery shopping list should actually be bought...i don't think there will be room.

i found a $10 bathing suit. (after a long detour to talk to brenna.) i think i will be out in the sun as much as possible from now until i leave.

and now if you'll pardon me, there is some corn on the cob and watermelon screaming my name.

yes, i know i wasn't very descriptive in yesterday's entry. but i was tired. i didn't sleep monday night. i got into a packing groove and have probably 75% of my stuff (all books and most kitchen things) packed. that leaves me only clothes, computer, and odds and ends to do when i get back. i packed my actual suitcases for this trip at 3:45am, but that was easy-threw all dirty laundry in one, some clean clothes i might need and some stuff i never wear and plan to leave here in the other. it's the lightest my suitcases have ever been-i was able to carry both of them down the tube station stairs at once.

the flight was looong and populated mainly by small children and high school kids. not very restful, but i was able to grab a couple hours' nap. the food wasn't too bad-ba have apparently made some menu changes, there was penne chicken and broccoli instead of chicken tikka, and the dessert was better too. but i could have done without the high school kids. they seemed to be on their way back from one of those multi-city canned tours. most of the girls were wearing football jerseys. (do they even know who baros and owen are?)

we took the long way home to find the new italian restaurant on route 40. it's run by the guy who used to be chef at winfield's. we ended up making dinner reservations. the food is GOOD.

when we got home, i opened the fridge to find a huge watermelon bearing a post-it that said "for lisa". my mommy loves me, she really does. and my house is completely overrun by orchids. not that i'm complaining.

and last night i got the best night's sleep i've had in ages.

6 days!
less than a week!
not at all excited or anything. ;)