Living it up in L.A.!

 

….actually I’m not. I’m sitting in a Mickey D’s pigging out because all I’ve had in the last 13 hours is a handful of pretzels and a venti coffee. (I like to pay a lot of money for coffee even though it pretty much all tastes the same, and I DON’T like to pay a lot for food even though the only lower quality food than McD is BK.) Kidding again. Actually sbucks was right next to my departure gate and McD was right next to my arrival gate.

 

ANYWAYS enough with mindless babbling. The flight to L.A. was uneventful, except for the fact that it was only the third time I’ve ever been on a plane. I of course arrived at Detroit airport a full hour later than I intended, leaving me with only an hour and a half before take-off. As an inexperienced flyer, I was a bit concerned. But of course it took less than 45 min to check bags and go through security, so no worries. Delta offered all the free movies/television/music you could handle in a 4.5 hr flight, so I finally watched Date Night. Steve Carell and Tina Fey are my absolute fave comedy actor/actress, so I’m not sure how I hadn’t seen that movie yet. But as you could guess, it was freaking hilarious. I was cracking up for a good portion of the movie. If you haven’t seen it, go do it right now.

 

I also watched about the first 2/3 of A Few Good Men. While watching it, I realized I had seen the first 1/3 of the movie 0-1 time in my whole entire life, but, gun to my head, could probably quote the rest of the movie aloud. I knew I had never really seen the beginning, but I didn’t realize I had been missing so much of the film! This is prob boring for everyone to read right now, but it was a pretty exciting revelation for me. It was like they just released a prequel to one of my favorite movies! 

 

Also, my left ear refused to pop during the descent, causing a pretty unfair amount of pain. All the usual tricks to pop ears were not working. Having temporarily given up, I blew my nose in the bathroom at LAX. At first I wasn’t sure if my head had exploded or I had popped my stubborn ear, but fortunately my head is still intact. Ear is now doing well, although it’s not looking forward to landing two more times.

 

It is soo nice to relax right now. The last few days, and this morning in particular, were so unbelievably stressful. True to form, I waited until literally the last second (and beyond the last second) to have everything set and ready to go. Plus I’m pretty sure I didn’t pack a single thing; I just ordered my mom around and threw things on the floor and dumped my purse out on the table and flung random papers around the upstairs hall. (By the way, Mom, you are a saint.) This 14-hr flight could not come at more perfect time. The plan is to have a couple of those free-international-flight-drinks and pass out. I was pondering watching Inception, but I don’t think my brain is functional enough to handle that right now.

 

All right children. That’s about all I got.  Now I must run and print my boarding pass for LA –> Auckland –> Dunedin. I’ll be back in about 17 hours!