Matt and I had a GREAT time in Oregon, and boy it's been hard to get back on schedule! We flew in Tuesday night, leaving Portland OR at 9:30 PM after driving 2 hours from beautiful Newport to the airport. Our flight left on time, and was 5 long hours. Thankfully it was a night flight, so they turned all the lights off and there was none of that airplane small talk that strangers seem to feel obligated to do while traveling. They played 2 movies, which is the only way I know I slept at all. First they played Get Smart. I love Steve Carell, so I begged Matt for a dollar to buy the disposable headphones they were selling, since I already promised the guy sitting on the aisle seat to my left that I wouldn't get up the whole flight (and I actually didn't!) and my headphones were packed away with our laptop in the overhead compartment. Matt said no, since I should sleep, and I knew he was right, but I couldn't fall asleep so I proceeded to watch the movie anyway and make up my own story. Did anyone see it? I really don't know if it was any good. So the next movie was Space Chimps. I didn't see much of Space Chimps, so I believe I may have slept for about 90 minutes, since that's probably the longest a kids movie could possibly last... I was awake on and off for the end of the flight when they were playing tv reruns. It was hard to sleep and the plane was bumpy. By the way! I am conquering my fear of flying by learning about flight! I learned that pilots learn to fly with only some or even none of the engines, and they can even land the plane safely with none of the engines working, since they can fly on wind currents! I had no idea. So I keep reminding myself during the takeoff and landing about all the things I learned about flight and I'm alot better now, ask Matt, no nail marks on his hands this time :)
OK so our plane landed at about 5:30 AM and it is now Wednesday, though to us it feels like a very late 2:30 AM on tues nite still... ugh. Then we had to find our luggage and then our car which we never wrote down where we parked! Thanks to some quick prayers, Matt found the car on the first try with no wasted steps, so we were on our way home from Newark, about a 1 1/2 hour drive. Then after a HOT much needed shower at home, and a 10 minute power nap I headed to work to do payroll. I worked until about 2 o'clock when I could no longer think and I was at the point of total ridiculum. So I headed home and basically slept from about 3 pm until 7 am today. Today was alot more productive at work, and a little productive when I got home. I managed to unpack one of my suitcases, I did 2 loads of laundry, and I made a schedule for Rachel's Thread through Dec 4th. There are a lot of fun things coming up! More about that later.
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By the way, don't use your cell phone while you drive. I got pulled over for that yesterday. Just got a warning, but still, it was enough to make me stop.
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