the adventures of halisa
WOOHOO okay i just got back yesterday. it's SO good to be back home, oh man i have missed my music, i started listening to beirut as soon as i got back, did i ever tell you guys how in love i am with beirut. it just makes the world seem right again when i listen to it.. mmm
ANYWAY. anway i have a story about my first time flying alone when i went to arizona last week.
OKAY SO USUALLY I FLY SOUTHWEST. and this for some reason whoever bought my tickets never told me i was flying on US Airways UNTIL I GOT THERE. and with US you have to fucking pay for your luggage and i'm just lucky i had my credit card with me, which i don't normally have, or i wouldn't have been able to pay for my luggage and see what flight i was on to get my tickets. 8l' just.. yeah and my dad just dropped me off and left. didn't even check to see that i got my tickets.
okay and so then i feel a little better now with my tickets, and get through security just fine.
OH YEAH oh yeah, okay so right now i guess i should say that my dad did NOT leave much time for us to get there and i've been ready for like an hour before he decides we should leave for the airport AND OH MY GOD IT IS THE WORST TRAFFIC I HAVE EVER SEEN in washington, holy shit. so we go through yelm and it's also packed there and SOMEHOW we get there with about an hour to spare. so i am STARVING now when i get through security because i didn't have time to eat. so i wolf down some noodles and get a water. then i see i have about a half an hour left. so i think oh shit, i have nothing to read, so i grab a book at the bookstore on the way there and then i run down to my gate.
so... i don't think i've EVER flown with US airways before. because for SOME REASON they only give you the time of the take off on your ticket. i'm used to Southwest giveing the time OF THE BOARDING. so here i am, thinking i'm getting there in time to board the plane, and there are like... what .. 10 people waiting outside the gate. so ... i'm really confused. but i sit down with them anyway. usually there'd be way more people. and then the lady at the counter motions for someone to come over and then lets her board and then FUCKING SHUTS THE DOOR, and ASLKGHSDKHG i am freaking out in my head and i get up and i run over, and i'm like, "H-HEY hey wait a minute this was my flight right?" and she says yes but the doors are closed and so i'll just have to come back tomorrow for the next flight to tuscon at 5pm.
NO NO NO NO
FUUUUUCCKKKKK
no this can't be happening. so i'm like... okay usually i am pretty calm, and i don't really curse unless i am excited or freaking out... this was one of those times. so i'm like FUCK FUCK what about my luggage?!!! that's the ONLY EARLIEST FLIGHT, THERE ARE NONE TODAY!? SHIT SHIT AAAAUUUGH. so she prints me out a ticket schedule for the next day while i am like shaking and sweating, and just really walking in circles going 'oh my god oh my god oh my god'. so she gives me the ticket and i thank her while i'm trying really really hard not to cry. and then i walk over to a bench by the bathrooms and call my mom, and augh i just can keep it in any more and i start bawling. of course she's totally not sympathetic. i'm so overwhelmed that i don't even really LOOK at the ticket, i just figure i'll look at it later, i just need a ride home right now. but she's like, "so what does the ticket say, have you left yet? you better find out what the deal is for tomorrow before you leave. go ask her right now, we need to know what time to be here, blah blah blah." aaaaugh i can hardly see, talk or breath i am trying so hard not to cry. I JUST NEED A FUCKING MINUTE, MOM, GOD. so then i call haila because i know she'll understand. and also my dad is not answering his fucking phone. so she tells me what i need to hear. that everyone does it, that it's not my fault, and that type of thing. and she wants me to ask about flights to Phoenix. so i hang up and i KNOW that i need to get ahold of myself before i go over there again, and haila knows that i do too, so she just tells me to calm my self down in the bathroom or something and then go over.
so pretty much i just cry like a baby into my sweatshirt in the bathroom and then i feel better. but my eyes are.. wow they are so bloodshot, and dry and my eyes are all puffy. and these kids are staring at me when i get out. and the sink is broken and i think i'm going to start crying again, but one of the kids is like, 'h-hey this one works.." haha oh man that kid was so cute i wanted to hug them...
anyway, the lady who was WITH the one who just gave me a ticket and sent me off was at the gate where i was going to ask for the next flight to phoenix and if i could get on stand by. and pretty much she sticks me on the flight taking off at that gate before i even really know what's happening. hands me the tickets and says, from here you go to vegas, and you connect on THIS flight (hands me another ticket) and it gets to phoenix at 10:51, can you remember that? "10:51, got it." and aaaaaugh this lady was like a saint, i just ;w; th-thank you, i wanted to give her a huggg bawwww she saved my life.
SO THEN IT ALL WORKED OUT AND I TEXTED HAILA to tell her what happened and thank her for making me man up and get over there and do something about it.
but ... yeah i normally have so much composure for that sort of thing, and it takes a lot to make me freak out. but i am also really hard on myself so i was just like, "AUGH YOU FUCKING IDIOT how did you miss it, asldhgalskdgh now everything is ruined asldkgh blah blah blah."
but haila reminded my of all the other times our family members have messed up flights and missed them doing dumb things so yeah i don't feel as bad anymore. A LEARNING EXPERIENCE. now i know i will never do that again. i hope.
anyway i will post my otakon and AX journal(s) soon i hope. i just need to clean my really messy room today..
ANYWAY. anway i have a story about my first time flying alone when i went to arizona last week.
OKAY SO USUALLY I FLY SOUTHWEST. and this for some reason whoever bought my tickets never told me i was flying on US Airways UNTIL I GOT THERE. and with US you have to fucking pay for your luggage and i'm just lucky i had my credit card with me, which i don't normally have, or i wouldn't have been able to pay for my luggage and see what flight i was on to get my tickets. 8l' just.. yeah and my dad just dropped me off and left. didn't even check to see that i got my tickets.
okay and so then i feel a little better now with my tickets, and get through security just fine.
OH YEAH oh yeah, okay so right now i guess i should say that my dad did NOT leave much time for us to get there and i've been ready for like an hour before he decides we should leave for the airport AND OH MY GOD IT IS THE WORST TRAFFIC I HAVE EVER SEEN in washington, holy shit. so we go through yelm and it's also packed there and SOMEHOW we get there with about an hour to spare. so i am STARVING now when i get through security because i didn't have time to eat. so i wolf down some noodles and get a water. then i see i have about a half an hour left. so i think oh shit, i have nothing to read, so i grab a book at the bookstore on the way there and then i run down to my gate.
so... i don't think i've EVER flown with US airways before. because for SOME REASON they only give you the time of the take off on your ticket. i'm used to Southwest giveing the time OF THE BOARDING. so here i am, thinking i'm getting there in time to board the plane, and there are like... what .. 10 people waiting outside the gate. so ... i'm really confused. but i sit down with them anyway. usually there'd be way more people. and then the lady at the counter motions for someone to come over and then lets her board and then FUCKING SHUTS THE DOOR, and ASLKGHSDKHG i am freaking out in my head and i get up and i run over, and i'm like, "H-HEY hey wait a minute this was my flight right?" and she says yes but the doors are closed and so i'll just have to come back tomorrow for the next flight to tuscon at 5pm.
NO NO NO NO
FUUUUUCCKKKKK
no this can't be happening. so i'm like... okay usually i am pretty calm, and i don't really curse unless i am excited or freaking out... this was one of those times. so i'm like FUCK FUCK what about my luggage?!!! that's the ONLY EARLIEST FLIGHT, THERE ARE NONE TODAY!? SHIT SHIT AAAAUUUGH. so she prints me out a ticket schedule for the next day while i am like shaking and sweating, and just really walking in circles going 'oh my god oh my god oh my god'. so she gives me the ticket and i thank her while i'm trying really really hard not to cry. and then i walk over to a bench by the bathrooms and call my mom, and augh i just can keep it in any more and i start bawling. of course she's totally not sympathetic. i'm so overwhelmed that i don't even really LOOK at the ticket, i just figure i'll look at it later, i just need a ride home right now. but she's like, "so what does the ticket say, have you left yet? you better find out what the deal is for tomorrow before you leave. go ask her right now, we need to know what time to be here, blah blah blah." aaaaugh i can hardly see, talk or breath i am trying so hard not to cry. I JUST NEED A FUCKING MINUTE, MOM, GOD. so then i call haila because i know she'll understand. and also my dad is not answering his fucking phone. so she tells me what i need to hear. that everyone does it, that it's not my fault, and that type of thing. and she wants me to ask about flights to Phoenix. so i hang up and i KNOW that i need to get ahold of myself before i go over there again, and haila knows that i do too, so she just tells me to calm my self down in the bathroom or something and then go over.
so pretty much i just cry like a baby into my sweatshirt in the bathroom and then i feel better. but my eyes are.. wow they are so bloodshot, and dry and my eyes are all puffy. and these kids are staring at me when i get out. and the sink is broken and i think i'm going to start crying again, but one of the kids is like, 'h-hey this one works.." haha oh man that kid was so cute i wanted to hug them...
anyway, the lady who was WITH the one who just gave me a ticket and sent me off was at the gate where i was going to ask for the next flight to phoenix and if i could get on stand by. and pretty much she sticks me on the flight taking off at that gate before i even really know what's happening. hands me the tickets and says, from here you go to vegas, and you connect on THIS flight (hands me another ticket) and it gets to phoenix at 10:51, can you remember that? "10:51, got it." and aaaaaugh this lady was like a saint, i just ;w; th-thank you, i wanted to give her a huggg bawwww she saved my life.
SO THEN IT ALL WORKED OUT AND I TEXTED HAILA to tell her what happened and thank her for making me man up and get over there and do something about it.
but ... yeah i normally have so much composure for that sort of thing, and it takes a lot to make me freak out. but i am also really hard on myself so i was just like, "AUGH YOU FUCKING IDIOT how did you miss it, asldhgalskdgh now everything is ruined asldkgh blah blah blah."
but haila reminded my of all the other times our family members have messed up flights and missed them doing dumb things so yeah i don't feel as bad anymore. A LEARNING EXPERIENCE. now i know i will never do that again. i hope.
anyway i will post my otakon and AX journal(s) soon i hope. i just need to clean my really messy room today..