Today is my last day in Oregon. Actually, it's my last couple hours in Oregon. I'm heading back home and I've got 12 hours of travel time ahead of me. I'll probably be posting a lot.
I found out yesterday (my actual last day here) that I have an attitude when I'm half asleep! I have the magic ability of being able to talk to people when I'm 80% asleep and sound completely coherent.
Not surprisingly enough, I bought a ton of stuff while I was here in Oregon. I probably spent more money shopping for myself in the last three months than I have in my whole four years in college! Really! The circumstances are a little different though. I have (had) a job and there is definitely a lot more places to shop in the Portland area than in all of the UP (Sorry Yooper friends, but it's true!)
So when I realized I had a ton more stuff to take home than I could possibly take with me on a plane, I went and bought 4.5 square feet of cardboardy goodness and promptly filled it with tons of
I knew I'd have to send it home, and it would cost a pretty penny to send, but I didn't mind. I've got the money for that and tons of time left to send it.
Needless to say, I didn't send it until the last possible day I could, which was yesterday. I was going to send it in the morning. Hoochie Momma was kind enough to wake me up. Here's my foggy recollection of what happened.
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Hoochie Momma: Laura? (Laura's eyelids move) Wah wah wah Hamgres, wah wah wah optical mouse wah wah wah?
Laura: (confused) Um...no? (Laura rolls over and falls back asleep)
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Obviously, Hoochie Momma said actual words, but all I remember is waking up and falling back asleep. Hoochie Momma's rendition is a little different.
Hoochie Momma's Rendtion of the Previous Events
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Hoochie Momma: Laura? Do you want to go to Hamgres to mail your package and pick up an optical mouse for your trip?
Laura: (annoyed, with a completely coherent California High School tone to voice) Um.. No! (Hoochie Momma leaves the door confused.)
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I woke up a an hour or so later all confused because I thought Hoochie Momma forgot to wake me up to mail my package. When she returned and recounted what had happened (and I vaguely rememberd) embarrassment and apologies ensued.
I did not realize that when I talk to people when I'm asleep, I sound like I'm awake. Then my mind went back to all the times Noona tried to wake me up for school and I didn't even remember her trying, but she said I said I was awake; and all the times Mom asked me to do something before she left for work and returned home to find not only was it not done, but again, I didn't even remember her asking.
What does this mean? I should start waking up when people talk to me. In reality though, I'll probably try to sound more sleepy when I talk to people when I'm half asleep, so there isn't (as much) confusion later :-)
Stay tuned for more posts from free airport WiFi networks!
2 comments:
So are you excited to be back home? How long do you think you're going to be there? Until after the wedding in August?
Hey--I know you're having a Catholic wedding, want to know something awesome? So, my sister-in-law is getting married in the Catholic church, too. But *she* doesn't have to do the stupid marriage prep classes before she gets married--because she's pregnant! They told her that she and her fiance could just take them AFTER the wedding.
So, since you and Stinky are going to be roughly 2000 miles away from each other, you night want to ask someone about delaying the marriage prep classes until after it would be an easier commute for you both. Because, speaking as one who has gone through the moronic classes, it's a WASTE of time. AND money. B and I had to pay $250 for our classes in Maryland because there wasn't a church in the area that held them for free.
I suggest this line of reasoning, "I would like to wait to take the marriage prepatory classes until after we're married."
Priest: "Why is that?"
"Because I'm pregnant."
"Uh--"
"Just kidding! Seriously, though, my fiance lives in Los Angeles now, and there's just no easy way for us to do this."
"Uh... well...."
"Would you rather I stick with the pregnancy excuse?"
"Yeah. That actually will speed up the process."
Oh, and another thing. I am now in 2 weddings in Michigan in the same year. One in February and yours in August. So why not make your colors silver and ruby red? I mean, that way I can reuse the bridesmaid dress from Michele's wedding! Just kidding. But seriously, I bought my dress from David's Bridal with no problem. I just took my measurements and phoned them into the store where Michele and the other bridesmaids placed their orders and tagged mine onto that, so they'll all be made from the same bolt of fabric. They're mailing my dress to me, so I'll let you know how that goes. At my wedding, Lindsi had hers mailed, and it wasn't a problem.
But man... airfare this year is going to bite me in the buttocks. It wouldn't be so bad if we actually got time to, you know, visit while were there, though. But both of the weddings are during a semester, and since I teach MWF it's not like I can just skip, the way I would have if I had been an undergrad. So we can only be out there (maybe) 4 days at most. Blah.
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