We are leaving for a week-long vacation to Portugal tomorrow, and as Ian has been home exactly three hours (1:00 a.m. to 4:00 a.m. last night) in the past 48 and has slept exactly one hour less than said time, he has had no time to pack. So as I've been putting things together this afternoon I've decided to start an Ian-pile of things that I know he will want or will wish he had remembered when his brain recovers from the forced insomnia. This process is a little like If You Give a Mouse a Cookie; I'm calling it If You Give Ian Lang Some Noise-Cancelling Headphones.
Because if you do, he will want some puzzles of some kind to do while he's listening to his latest grooves (cue my packing of the Sudoku). And then he will get hungry, but he is picky and won't eat airplane food; he will want instead his Quaker Chewy Chocolate Chip 25% Reduced Sugar granola bars. (Add those to the pile.) And then he will notice that I am stoned on Xanax, which will be true, but I will also be watching the West Wing on my laptop (thanks, Karina!) and he will want to watch something too, so I've packed some Seinfeld episodes. And then he will get grouchy and irritable because I have taken the aisle seat (heh heh) and he really wants the window, and thus the best thing for him to do is nap. (Include the travel pillow.) Married four years... or FOUR HUNDRED?
Also, I am very excited because I received my invitation for Fantasy Football! This year's theme is Arrested Development (and Adam, Ian called that months ago. We've been contemplating our names now for some time. Not that it's a problem!) and my name is Ms. Bananagrabber. Allusive, yet sexually deviant!
And with that, I'm off.
About Your Pilot
- L-Squared
- I’m a bleeding-heart feminist college writing/English instructor with big, bold dreams for a future uninhibited by departmental downsizing and piss-poor state funding. I’m also a military spouse in the Deep South, raising a baby girl whom we'll call Piglet, born on July 22, 2010. Go figure.
In Act I, my husband Dr. Feelgood (a Navy physician) is deploying for Gitmo five weeks after Piglet is born. Hence, I'll be taking a hiatus from teaching and will hightail it up to our folks' in Michigan, where at least someone related to me can partake in the childrearing/postpartum insanity.
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- Ian (24)
- school (20)
- letters of complaint (14)
- California Love (6)
- Michigan (5)
- friends (5)
- family (3)
- summer (3)
- military (2)
- vacation (2)
- GoooooOBAMA (1)
- jewelry (1)
- music (1)
- travel (1)
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2 comments:
I love this because I can totally imagine the process. I do this same thing every time Jason goes on a business trip--and his job is 50-80% travel. He'll need underwear, work polo, toothbrush, cell phone, laptop bag, PSP, games to play on it, all necessary cords for aforementioned devices, Luna bars and soy milk boxes in case he misses the hotel breakfast...
And Jason is a pretty chilled out guy. Packing must be so much more complicated for you!
I love your Ian entries.
Ms. Bananagrabber-- LOVE IT! I'm also eagerly awaiting confirmation of the AD movie. Have fun in Portugal, by the way. I totally want to be married, not to much for the life long love and companionship, yada yada, part (Bad idea for me- I only date the crazies... and I'm also one of them, hmm..) but really more for someone to plan out how to keep me from getting cranky during the trip. That would be very nice.
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