and I can't tell if it's fatigue or adjusting to being on land. Or both ( Read more... )

We are taking SteelyKid and the Pip on their first plane trips very soon, down to Florida to see my mom and her husband, and I have anxiety like whoa over the trip. I don't have time to write out all the things we've already planned, but tell me your essential and/or non-obvious things about traveling by plane with a five-year-old and a two-year- ( Read more... )

Tonight, I clear nearly-finished or quick things out of the posting queue. First: we took a quick vacation last weekend: to the Baltimore/DC area, thanks to a friend's wedding reception and the generosity of Chad's parents, who took the kids.

We left early Friday morning, and after our flight, went to the Udvar-Hazy Center of the Air and Space ( Read more... )

Yesterday afternoon, Chad's parents picked the kids up (both kids; their first overnight with the Pip without us there).

Last night, I stayed late at work, had a lovely dinner out, fought Quicken into admitting that my account was too reconciled, cleaned off my desk of a week's worth of mail, took all the ornaments off the tree and put them away ( Read more... )

We're going to be in New York City this weekend, and right now have only tomorrow (Saturday) afternoon free. What should we do?

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If I believed in cosmic balance or suchlike, I would point to today's trip as evidence, because except for the minor inconvenience of spending all of Chicago-Albany making (pleasant!) small talk to a seatmate who was having serious anxiety issues (I stitched while we were talking but had planned to tackle the mountain of posts resulting from WisCon ( Read more... )

who aren't watching
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Chose bus from O'Hare over going on standby list for 9:45 plane.

On one hand, am here now.

On other hand, so motion-sick.

Bed now.

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My flight is delayed 90 minutes, which makes my connection look really dodgy too.

Oh well, even before I checked the flight status I was telling myself that this is a vacation, today is a day just for travel and relaxing, I am not going to get stressed out, I have lots of stuff to do and am just going to take it as it comes.

Let's see how well I ( Read more... )

I'm quite happy living in suburban upstate New York. We have a house with a fenced backyard, to the delight of the household's helpless mammals, and live more than comfortably on the salaries of a college professor and a government lawyer.

But every so often I need to go to an actual city: walk the streets, eat in new-to-me restaurants, watch the ( Read more... )