Single handedly destroying the earth, one airplane ride at a time. 

 

So I know that I haven’t updated in a long time…and actually I did have an update from the middle of November partially saved, my computer deleted the rest of it…and it may get posted…but for right now I’m going to try to explain what has been going on the past couple of months.

 

I think I may travel too much.  How do I know this?  Well, I compiled a list of the reasons I think I might be traveling too much. 

 

1. When filling up my gas tank this evening I had to look at my dashboard because I could not remember which side of the car my gas tank was on. 
2. I know the airport off site parking shuttle drivers.  They recognize me and ask how things are going.
3. I know my Delta, United and American frequent flyer numbers by heart…probably better than I know my own social security number.
4. I get really annoyed that after roughly 2 years people still haven’t learned that you can’t take liquids on airplanes in any significant quantity…but yet know exactly how much and where to hide my own liquids in my own luggage so I don’t get my 4 oz hand cream taken away by TSA. 
5. I have the off site parking phone number memorized (Note: I can’t even remember my desk phone number.)
6. Other patrons in the expert traveler line note the efficiency at which I strip and then get redressed.
7. I start heckling those that should not be in the expert traveler line.  Complete with my notorious eye rolling and annoyed sighs. 
8. I take baby aspirin like an old person so I don’t get blood clots from being cramped up in those tiny damn seats. 
9. On the rare occurrence when I am in actually in my office people come up and introduce themselves stating that I must be the new girl. 
10. I wake up in the morning and have to consciously think about where I am waking up, and get slightly unnerved when my first couple guesses are wrong.
11. I travel more miles by air in a year than I do in any other mode of transportation.  I am single handedly responsible for destroying the earth with my carbon footprint.
12. In my spare time I am trying to figure out how to devise a mechanism that will universally charge my ipod, cell phone, laptop and gps.
13. I realize I no longer really need the gps because I am more familiar with the roads where I travel than my own roads outside my apartment.
14. I have spent more time in Kansas City in the last month than I have in Utah (that’s not even an exaggeration.)
15.  I’m annoyed when I realize that I have already seen the in-flight movie twice on two other flights
16. I spent my 25^th birthday sleeping by gate 62 in the Denver airport.
17. I have been on 156 airplanes since August 2006.
18. I have been in the Salt Lake International Airport at least once a week for the past 6 weeks. 

 

Ok, I think that’s an extensive enough list. So in the next couple of days (since I’m actually going to stay put for once) I hope to give a few brief updates…and hopefully make them mildly amusing (yes Mandi that’s for you).  In actuality it will probably have the same continuity of a David Sedaris novel but be far less amusing (which means I’m going to jump around a lot and not be funny, just a warning). 

That is all.