can't sleep!
boo. i do so enjoy sleeping, after all. for example, after being up almost all saturday night (except 3 hours); getting stuff finished and signed and done; packing; saying goodbye to people; having a last meal at hooters (of all places!) with drew and jena (both of whom i miss like crazy!); and crying; and driving really quickly to the airport in a cab, the driver of which wouldn't let drew out of the car to say goodbye to me because he wasn't allowed to pick people up at the airport; and crying; and doing airport things; and getting on the plane, only to discover that i had scored the last row with 2 seats to myself (sweet!); and seeing the ship suddenly come into view while we got into position, which made me cry some more; and flying 5 hours, plus an extra 2 for a stop in LA; and getting home; and saying hi to all the animals; i slept for 15 hours straight. and some more the next day. plus, i rented some movies and watched them. i'm sad, and sleepy, but i can't sleep.
stuff is happening while i'm gone -- our cruise director got a blood clot in his lung and was taken to the hospital, for one thing. but that's the thing -- stuff always happens, with or without you. and since i'm not going back to that ship, i don't know when i'll see several really good friends again. however, i am very excited for europe!
anyway. my last few weeks were crazy fun. for starters, my parents were onboard at the end of january, and had a great time. they now want to cruise some more, which i warned them about -- people always want to cruise more once they've done it. so it was fun, although it wore me out being a tourist. the coolest thing was when we hiked on the kiluea lava fields and saw a molten pit of lava -- amazing! i relaxed the next week, and then it was time for my aloha week -- no sleep there. we hiked all over in kauai, wandered around downtown hilo (which is an awesome place), and totally failed to go to the beach no matter how hard we tried. so once again, i am returning with no tan. maybe more than when i left, but i'm still a whitey.
i'm now staying with my parents, which is a little awkward, since they're dividing their time between two houses. i have stuff at both houses. more often than not, the stuff i want is at one house and i am at another. bah.
i just read "mirror mirror" by gregory maguire (is it gregory? i can't remember, and i don't want to get up and check because there is a small black cat on my lap). the guy who wrote "wicked", anyway. it was quite good, and strange.
and i just got back in touch with an old friend! yay.
that should do it for tonight. i'm going to try to sleep now... wish me luck.
stuff is happening while i'm gone -- our cruise director got a blood clot in his lung and was taken to the hospital, for one thing. but that's the thing -- stuff always happens, with or without you. and since i'm not going back to that ship, i don't know when i'll see several really good friends again. however, i am very excited for europe!
anyway. my last few weeks were crazy fun. for starters, my parents were onboard at the end of january, and had a great time. they now want to cruise some more, which i warned them about -- people always want to cruise more once they've done it. so it was fun, although it wore me out being a tourist. the coolest thing was when we hiked on the kiluea lava fields and saw a molten pit of lava -- amazing! i relaxed the next week, and then it was time for my aloha week -- no sleep there. we hiked all over in kauai, wandered around downtown hilo (which is an awesome place), and totally failed to go to the beach no matter how hard we tried. so once again, i am returning with no tan. maybe more than when i left, but i'm still a whitey.
i'm now staying with my parents, which is a little awkward, since they're dividing their time between two houses. i have stuff at both houses. more often than not, the stuff i want is at one house and i am at another. bah.
i just read "mirror mirror" by gregory maguire (is it gregory? i can't remember, and i don't want to get up and check because there is a small black cat on my lap). the guy who wrote "wicked", anyway. it was quite good, and strange.
and i just got back in touch with an old friend! yay.
that should do it for tonight. i'm going to try to sleep now... wish me luck.