it's 2 A.M. and I'm finally home

So it turns out that the hydralics were the least of my worries. My plane in Seattle is late. We board and find out the reason it was late was they had a medical emergency and now the oxygen and other supplies are depleted. it'll be '10 minutes' for the contractor to replace it. Nearly 2 hours later this finally happens, meanwhile we're trapped on a packed air-bus.

At this point we're all in a fine panic because nearly everyone has connectors in Philly. NONE of us are going to make it and these were the last planes out for the night so we all might need to stay in Philly. USAir (which wanted 9 dollars for food, half a sandwich or fruit and cheese, thanks no, i'll eat the muffin I grabbed in Seattle for dinner) busted their butts to get us through the rough skies so they wouldn't have to pay to put up an airbus full of people. We landed but can't get to the terminal since someone left equipment on the tarmac so we wait for that to be moved

Philly has a stupid system. they only put up flights departing in that concourse. I am in another one. We're all running (literally, the FMA messenger bag had a camera, two books, my wallet, my netbook and other sundries in it, banging off my thigh which is now bruised). We get there, the gate was changed, race to a different gate to find out they changed the flight time.

I get on the plane. There is NO food places open in Philly so that muffin really was dinner. I get to Pittsburgh, call the parents to come get me. My luggage is destroyed, the inside support of one is shattered and the wiring and zippers torn off the other. there is no place to whine about this. My parents' car has trouble and they had to double back and get mine.

don't you wish you could travel with me?

Link me up

let's face it. I'm never going to catch up on a week's worth of blogging. I only got to see a wee bit while on vaca. If there is something I should see/read/drool over link me up. I'm sure I missed tons of good stuff.

I went down to see the kitties at grandma's. I plopped down with the Criminal Minds marathon and let them come to me. Soul wouldn't even look at me. It took Kanda an hour before he forgave me.

I'm quite busy hiding from the 80+ degree temp. I'm ready to go back to Canada now.

I did get a lot of writing done. Now to type it up. I did not get any of my help_japan's done but I did get a little going. I got a lot of original fiction written. I also decided to try for the vacation and home for the holiday anthologies (after saying now) I think that i can send two boys to Victoria on a ghost hunting vacation and Temple/Li, Caleb/Agno for the holidays. Wish me luck. I'm almost done with my werewolf YA too.

In all seriousness, I'm looking into buying this house. My mom, aunt and SiL already have plans for it. I know this house needs work on the outside. Hell I could buy that Victorian siding and even if it cost 30K it wouldn't put this house out of my price range.

I had more to say but i'm brain dead so....

( day 215, the view from my hotel room )