I'm well pleased
That my sister found my last post so funny... I often try and capture the hilarity of certain misfortunes in my life but am never quite sure if I manage... she has problems with submitting a comment to my blog... I'm a bit puzzled... If you too are having problems, can you drop me a line please using the link called "dare you" in the left hand column and let me know?
Seestor is hiding big exciting news... she could be getting married, pregnant, or both... I guess I have to wait until Thursday night to find out.
Today marks the run around buy presents and pack your bag day... kind of like mini xmas preparation... glad this time I should not be going home to cold!
24.4.07
Public humiliation thy name is Sarah... looking pissed on my 9am flight
Well lets see... kind of like that Gilligan's Island fated 3h tour... My 4am start yesterday was doomed for disaster. I shared a taxi with a lovely bloke from the neighborhood who might be able to send me some good contacts for my business. That is good. I arrived at the airport in good time, met my colleague, checked in and then proceeded through customs... we arrived at the gate 40mins before the flight therefore took off to grab a coffee... we returned to the gate 15 mins later and the flight was closed and we had missed the flight. Nice. Argh!
We then scuttle through the airport and I collect my bag which I checked containing bottles of wine for the clients... my colleague went hunting to see which flight we could jump on and still make our meetings... We got the 2 of the last 3 remaining seats on the 9h10 flight, phew. We go through customs again and this time stay put at the gate. Board the flight. And then we both immediately passed out.
About 10 or 15 minutes airborne I woke up and decided to pop to the loo quickly before the lady brought around the refreshments... I was in the middle so I asked the lady next to me to let me out... I scooched by her taking the lead with my right foot. Once in the Ise I proceeded again with my right foot and the the left... and then the left... I looked down and my foot was folded over at the ankle.. and the rest of the left hand side of my body had collapsed. I was confused. Hmm must have triped on something. I take another step with my right foot and then one with the left... collapse. WTF was going on?? I look back at the 12 rows of people behind me whom are all staring at me in total panic/confusion. They have just seen a normal business woman, get up, stumble, collapse, stumble again... I must have looked nothing other then pissed! To them I was a drunkard collapsing in the isle at 9am!!! I however, was not... My left foot had somehow lost total circulation while I had fallen asleep and instead of the normal pins and needles that indicate the loss of circulation I had nothing... no indicator that my left foot had ceased to function. I dragged my self the rest of the way down the isle and to the loo. Inside I collected myself and worked vigorously to re-animate my gammy foot.
Upon my exit from the loo, I walked very steadily and this time without falling back to my seat. Head down of course.
We caught a taxi from the airport to Utrecht for the tune of 95 euros (madness) and the taxi driver got lost... his gps was not working properly and low and behold he had no map. By this time we were a full hour late for our second meeting having completely missed the first one...
Nightmare!
I tell you... travelling with me is just a barrel of laughs...
Good news is that I'll be eating vla and speculas voraciously until I leave for Canada onThursday...I wonder what trouble I'll get myself into on that flight?
pretty flowers in amsterdam
standard canal pic...
Well lets see... kind of like that Gilligan's Island fated 3h tour... My 4am start yesterday was doomed for disaster. I shared a taxi with a lovely bloke from the neighborhood who might be able to send me some good contacts for my business. That is good. I arrived at the airport in good time, met my colleague, checked in and then proceeded through customs... we arrived at the gate 40mins before the flight therefore took off to grab a coffee... we returned to the gate 15 mins later and the flight was closed and we had missed the flight. Nice. Argh!
We then scuttle through the airport and I collect my bag which I checked containing bottles of wine for the clients... my colleague went hunting to see which flight we could jump on and still make our meetings... We got the 2 of the last 3 remaining seats on the 9h10 flight, phew. We go through customs again and this time stay put at the gate. Board the flight. And then we both immediately passed out.
About 10 or 15 minutes airborne I woke up and decided to pop to the loo quickly before the lady brought around the refreshments... I was in the middle so I asked the lady next to me to let me out... I scooched by her taking the lead with my right foot. Once in the Ise I proceeded again with my right foot and the the left... and then the left... I looked down and my foot was folded over at the ankle.. and the rest of the left hand side of my body had collapsed. I was confused. Hmm must have triped on something. I take another step with my right foot and then one with the left... collapse. WTF was going on?? I look back at the 12 rows of people behind me whom are all staring at me in total panic/confusion. They have just seen a normal business woman, get up, stumble, collapse, stumble again... I must have looked nothing other then pissed! To them I was a drunkard collapsing in the isle at 9am!!! I however, was not... My left foot had somehow lost total circulation while I had fallen asleep and instead of the normal pins and needles that indicate the loss of circulation I had nothing... no indicator that my left foot had ceased to function. I dragged my self the rest of the way down the isle and to the loo. Inside I collected myself and worked vigorously to re-animate my gammy foot.
Upon my exit from the loo, I walked very steadily and this time without falling back to my seat. Head down of course.
We caught a taxi from the airport to Utrecht for the tune of 95 euros (madness) and the taxi driver got lost... his gps was not working properly and low and behold he had no map. By this time we were a full hour late for our second meeting having completely missed the first one...
Nightmare!
I tell you... travelling with me is just a barrel of laughs...
Good news is that I'll be eating vla and speculas voraciously until I leave for Canada onThursday...I wonder what trouble I'll get myself into on that flight?
pretty flowers in amsterdam
standard canal pic...
22.4.07
Good things come in 3's no?
Well I'm hoping so as the first good thing happened today. I got accepted to exhibit my paintings at a gallery here in Barcelona! Very exciting indeed. The only small challenge is that I need to produce 6 more pieces before the show... I only have 9 in the collection left and I need to show 15 pieces. It's going to be a good challenge to get those done! Perhaps it was just the kick in the arse that I needed to get moving!
I'm really not looking forward to the 5h30 am get out of bed and drag arse to airport scenario that awaits me tomorrow morning... nor the return flight that will get me home just a bit before midnight...
We went to a really lovely bbq yesterday at Wendy's house. It was so nice to get out of the centre of the city and explore the burbs... we don't often have the chance!
The sun showed up!
Wendy and one of her little ones running around in the background!
Well I'm hoping so as the first good thing happened today. I got accepted to exhibit my paintings at a gallery here in Barcelona! Very exciting indeed. The only small challenge is that I need to produce 6 more pieces before the show... I only have 9 in the collection left and I need to show 15 pieces. It's going to be a good challenge to get those done! Perhaps it was just the kick in the arse that I needed to get moving!
I'm really not looking forward to the 5h30 am get out of bed and drag arse to airport scenario that awaits me tomorrow morning... nor the return flight that will get me home just a bit before midnight...
We went to a really lovely bbq yesterday at Wendy's house. It was so nice to get out of the centre of the city and explore the burbs... we don't often have the chance!
The sun showed up!
Wendy and one of her little ones running around in the background!
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