人生如夢
1. So...I bought my plane ticket on Monday (for my flight on Wednesday). Since I was going to spend the night in the airport, I went to bed early Tuesday morning...woke up early afternoon...and found out that the site I had used wanted me to fax them a copy of my credit card statement by 15:00. I read this at 14:00. And I really was just not going to attempt to get dressed, set up the printer reposoir gave me, print off my credit card statement, head to city centre, and attempt to find a fax machine in heaven knows where. So I didn't do it, I got a call from a customer service person telling me that my reservation was cancelled and my monies would be refunded, and then I bought a slightly cheaper ticket from a different website afterward.
Just...wtf.
However, I'm quite in like with KLM. I got ice cream during my flight! And a very nicely packaged meal! And a very nicely packaged snack! (I do remember getting dinner and breakfast from Lufthansa when I flew to the UK, but...nothing so nicely packaged, and certainly no ice cream! Unless I slept through it...) European airlines, I hearts you. ;o;o;o;o;o;o;o;o;
(Btw...there should be a signal passengers can turn on to show that they want to be woken up for food! I know I sleep through like all my flights, but if free foods are going to be given out, I want some! And I want to be woken up for them!!!!! I totally ended up eating my meal after everyone else's had been taken back by the attendants...and it was sad waking up to find everyone around me eating deliciousness while being super hungry! :((((((((((()
2. My mom is worried that I'll crash my own car since I haven't driven in six months, so she keeps making me drive her car. I wanted to do some errands after she went to work yesterday, so I drove my car out.
I have forgotten how amazing it is to drive stick. I still don't really like driving and prefer walking or public transportation, but driving stick >>>>>>>>> automatic. When I drive automatic...I feel like I'm being the laziest person ever. My foot just sits there, doing nothing, and I often even use just one hand because I'm like THERE'S NO PLACE FOR MY OTHER HAND TO GO, SINCE I DON'T HAVE TO SWITCH GEARS. The amount of control one can exert with a stick, my heart. *o*o*o*o*o*o*o*
3. I had some Hershey's chocolate today, and, um. IT TASTES SO TERRIBLE. I didn't particularly mind it before I went to a place where I cannot access them, but I had some Hershey's truffles today, and um...they were chalky and really freaking weird-tasting. I had this really nasty aftertaste in my mouth afterward and was definitely wishing I had some Thornton's to make it all go away ;o;o;o; ngl, I forgot that chocolate that isn't smooth and nice and rich existed...(I've had chocolate whose taste I didn't particularly like in the UK, but I haven't had chocolate that tastes just plain awful yet...though I've come about half-way...so I'm not just knocking US chocolate ;))
4. Being back in the US reminds me why I don't want to live here permanently and don't plan to. I feel less...anti-US now, because it's not really a bad place and Americans in general are really fairly friendly and good people (and I keep thinking of Alfred, who is really a good kid underneath everything...if a bit misguided. I'll always love nini the most, but the nini I see is a man who is cold and superior, who sees very few people as equals, and if someone else's blood flowed in me, I don't think I would like him. Respect him and admire him, maybe, but not like him.). It's just not for someone like me, is all.
5. At some point I will actually post pix. When I'm not travelling like none other and trying to catch up with loads of shit and running out of disk space like fuck. :x
Just...wtf.
However, I'm quite in like with KLM. I got ice cream during my flight! And a very nicely packaged meal! And a very nicely packaged snack! (I do remember getting dinner and breakfast from Lufthansa when I flew to the UK, but...nothing so nicely packaged, and certainly no ice cream! Unless I slept through it...) European airlines, I hearts you. ;o;o;o;o;o;o;o;o;
(Btw...there should be a signal passengers can turn on to show that they want to be woken up for food! I know I sleep through like all my flights, but if free foods are going to be given out, I want some! And I want to be woken up for them!!!!! I totally ended up eating my meal after everyone else's had been taken back by the attendants...and it was sad waking up to find everyone around me eating deliciousness while being super hungry! :((((((((((()
2. My mom is worried that I'll crash my own car since I haven't driven in six months, so she keeps making me drive her car. I wanted to do some errands after she went to work yesterday, so I drove my car out.
I have forgotten how amazing it is to drive stick. I still don't really like driving and prefer walking or public transportation, but driving stick >>>>>>>>> automatic. When I drive automatic...I feel like I'm being the laziest person ever. My foot just sits there, doing nothing, and I often even use just one hand because I'm like THERE'S NO PLACE FOR MY OTHER HAND TO GO, SINCE I DON'T HAVE TO SWITCH GEARS. The amount of control one can exert with a stick, my heart. *o*o*o*o*o*o*o*
3. I had some Hershey's chocolate today, and, um. IT TASTES SO TERRIBLE. I didn't particularly mind it before I went to a place where I cannot access them, but I had some Hershey's truffles today, and um...they were chalky and really freaking weird-tasting. I had this really nasty aftertaste in my mouth afterward and was definitely wishing I had some Thornton's to make it all go away ;o;o;o; ngl, I forgot that chocolate that isn't smooth and nice and rich existed...(I've had chocolate whose taste I didn't particularly like in the UK, but I haven't had chocolate that tastes just plain awful yet...though I've come about half-way...so I'm not just knocking US chocolate ;))
4. Being back in the US reminds me why I don't want to live here permanently and don't plan to. I feel less...anti-US now, because it's not really a bad place and Americans in general are really fairly friendly and good people (and I keep thinking of Alfred, who is really a good kid underneath everything...if a bit misguided. I'll always love nini the most, but the nini I see is a man who is cold and superior, who sees very few people as equals, and if someone else's blood flowed in me, I don't think I would like him. Respect him and admire him, maybe, but not like him.). It's just not for someone like me, is all.
5. At some point I will actually post pix. When I'm not travelling like none other and trying to catch up with loads of shit and running out of disk space like fuck. :x