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Europe in 2.5 days... ?!?!?! I AM NOT READY. I've been saying that for months now, so you would think I would do something about. but I have not. I've thought about it... but really taken no action. I have yet to even find the suitcase I will be using. I've told myself, and others, that I'm not packing a lot. CANNOT PACK A LOT. because I know as soooon as I get there, the first day, I will see something, "need" it, and buy it. My goal is to only buy *ONE* of every article of clothing, i.e. one scarf, one dress, one skirt, one pair of shoes, one purse, etc. Yeah... it's a long shot. But I'ma try!
Ohhhhh... just found a flea market in Rome. OH BOY. This is going to be hilarious... Mackenzie's will vs. Mackenzie's need for foreign material objects. Side note- it probably could not be better weather. I keep checking weather.com and it looks like it will be amazzzzing. Everywhere, everyday. It says light rain but 70 degrees for Easter Sunday in Vatican City with 23487984 other people... I think that sounds brilliant. That's my Dad's anniversary, so I think rain means a lot.
Funny story. Well, I guess it's funny if you look at it optimistically... it personally pisses me right off. Soo I basically have a job at Plato's Closet now. I start after Europe, for a "trial period." which I honestly think is a cool idea. But they originally said they do drug testing, so I got detox for the second interview, anddd she didn't even test me. I have no idea if/when she will. I'm kinda fucked... not sure what I'm gonna do about that. But besides detox, I bought new glass. Ironic? It's a cute, pink chillum. No name yet. Maybe I'll come across word in a different language that suits it during my travels. It was definitely an impulse buy... it was small, portable, pretty, (kinda?) cheap, etc. So I snatched it right up. Now I have that, plus Ariel. Oh well, I'm just gonna hope my mother doesn't get to it before I can take it to schoooool in the fall. Then I'll be sure I'll have it for awhile- no wasted moneys. Hope I'm not jinxing this...
I'm glad I'm updating (almost) daily. it's nice to just write... not always about being miserable, although that may seem to take up 90% of my posts. I'll have maaaany posts from Europe, (I plan to blog every night), and I'm expecting none of those to be sad. I have no reason to worry, or over think, while I'm there. It's time to disconnect myself from the world a little bit, and live in the present. I'm glad I won't have a cell phone... I considered not taking the computer, but I'd have nowhere to upload pictures, charge my iPod, write, update people, etc. One day I will totally disconnect myself... not this trip, though.
I bought a European phrase book today. It has a crap load of languages in it; I only need three. I'm probably gonna have a rough time with Italian, I'm hoping to jog my memory with French, and I'm relying on the other people in my group for the Spanish, since everyone and their mother took that language. I'm probably gonna feel ignorant most of the time, but I guess I am. At least I'll try. I think body language can tell a lot, so I plan to communicate that way, too. I also bought a journal specifically for EuroTrip. It's pretty, and I've already started putting addresses in their, for postcards. I have lists to make prior to leaving. I hope to write every day, as much as possible. I'm going to carry it around with me, because I don't want this to slip away from me. I'd rather be writing than taking pictures... although I love pictures, I don't like to live through a camera lens. and it's annoying when people have 100 pictures of the same thing; I don't wanna fall into that. I don't really know why I'm planning all this out on LJ, I mean, I already have it in my head.
Sick of writing now. Tireeedddd.
Ohhhhh... just found a flea market in Rome. OH BOY. This is going to be hilarious... Mackenzie's will vs. Mackenzie's need for foreign material objects. Side note- it probably could not be better weather. I keep checking weather.com and it looks like it will be amazzzzing. Everywhere, everyday. It says light rain but 70 degrees for Easter Sunday in Vatican City with 23487984 other people... I think that sounds brilliant. That's my Dad's anniversary, so I think rain means a lot.
Funny story. Well, I guess it's funny if you look at it optimistically... it personally pisses me right off. Soo I basically have a job at Plato's Closet now. I start after Europe, for a "trial period." which I honestly think is a cool idea. But they originally said they do drug testing, so I got detox for the second interview, anddd she didn't even test me. I have no idea if/when she will. I'm kinda fucked... not sure what I'm gonna do about that. But besides detox, I bought new glass. Ironic? It's a cute, pink chillum. No name yet. Maybe I'll come across word in a different language that suits it during my travels. It was definitely an impulse buy... it was small, portable, pretty, (kinda?) cheap, etc. So I snatched it right up. Now I have that, plus Ariel. Oh well, I'm just gonna hope my mother doesn't get to it before I can take it to schoooool in the fall. Then I'll be sure I'll have it for awhile- no wasted moneys. Hope I'm not jinxing this...
I'm glad I'm updating (almost) daily. it's nice to just write... not always about being miserable, although that may seem to take up 90% of my posts. I'll have maaaany posts from Europe, (I plan to blog every night), and I'm expecting none of those to be sad. I have no reason to worry, or over think, while I'm there. It's time to disconnect myself from the world a little bit, and live in the present. I'm glad I won't have a cell phone... I considered not taking the computer, but I'd have nowhere to upload pictures, charge my iPod, write, update people, etc. One day I will totally disconnect myself... not this trip, though.
I bought a European phrase book today. It has a crap load of languages in it; I only need three. I'm probably gonna have a rough time with Italian, I'm hoping to jog my memory with French, and I'm relying on the other people in my group for the Spanish, since everyone and their mother took that language. I'm probably gonna feel ignorant most of the time, but I guess I am. At least I'll try. I think body language can tell a lot, so I plan to communicate that way, too. I also bought a journal specifically for EuroTrip. It's pretty, and I've already started putting addresses in their, for postcards. I have lists to make prior to leaving. I hope to write every day, as much as possible. I'm going to carry it around with me, because I don't want this to slip away from me. I'd rather be writing than taking pictures... although I love pictures, I don't like to live through a camera lens. and it's annoying when people have 100 pictures of the same thing; I don't wanna fall into that. I don't really know why I'm planning all this out on LJ, I mean, I already have it in my head.
Sick of writing now. Tireeedddd.