I'M HOME!

...and I could not be more happy. I'm a few beers in, so hopefully my blog will make sense and not ramble too long. But it's vacation, don't judge me. I know for a fact all of you reading this wish you were drinking as well.

Let's start from the beginning. I caught the bus in New London this morning at 9:50 (hell if I'm going to leave my car in Lebanon ever ever again, I'm still extremely bitter if you can't tell). Got to the airport, walked straight to security. What's this? No line. SWEET! The only hold up was the time it took me to take off my shoes and get out my laptop. I won't go into my opinion on TSA and security and airports in general, but I didn't opt out and was not held up. I bought some fudge from that place to bring with us at the various places we go this week. Aidan better tell me I'm his favorite cousin for not picking any peanut flavors. It was hard to resist with my new found appreciation for Reese's. It was weird though that at the Jetblue terminal they did not accept the Jetblue card. You might want to get that fixed fudge stand.

I landed at IAD. Yay! Nothing can replicate the smile I make when I land at a destination. I normally like to walk through airports, but I'm still fascinated by the new train system at Dulles. It's so pretty! Being in row 4, I was off the plane and out the airport probably before some people were off the plane. I told Mom I was at door 3 but coming from the cell phone waiting area it took her a long time because of the traffic. There was confusion on if I was walking towards her, or towards the last door, or standing still. I said I was between door 2 and 3 and would stop moving. All of a sudden I see my mom ZOOMING by. What?? What is she doing? Where is she going? I go running after her jetting through this sea of people while laughing and debating if I should stop to get my phone and call her. Then she realizes that the door numbers were going UP and not DOWN and she stopped. If you know me or my mom at all this story shouldn't be that surprising or hard to picture, but it was still funny. I seem to find myself running for a real reason while laughing a lot (example: Ingles, which most of you know and probably just "lol"ed).

I get home and am still in awe of the beautiful new kitchen. 

The first thing my mom says to me when we get home? "What wrong with your hair?" Yup....that's my mom. Welcome home. In her defense, my hair did look bad due to traveling and wearing a hat. She made up for it by cooking my favorite meal and giving me presents. My birthday came early this year (I had to open them in case we needed to exchange them since I have NOTHING in Lebanon). I must get my awesome gift giving gene from my mom. Thank you Mom, for everything you have ever gotten me because I always love it all. Part of the present was as simple as money to spend as I please. I find this funny because after TWENTY YEARS of asking for a dog and never ever getting one, my mom is finally (indirectly) getting me a dog.

Some of you may have heard about my magic fridge. There's a magic fridge that lives in my basement. Whenever I come home it's full of beer. I drink it and then when I come home next it's full of more beer. This magic fridge has moved from the basement to the garage. I love you magic fridge.

And now for my mom quotes, because I love her and she is funny.
1) "[lol] This woman's last name is Papajohn. I got an email and though it was spam from the pizza place. No it's my coworker." I guess this is why I too laugh at people with silly names. Like mother like daughter.
2) "I CANNOT WAIT until the 30th. What day is that? I will be downloading a CD" Me: Tuesday. What CD? Mom: BLACK EYE PEAS. They sang a version of "Favorite Things" on Opera. Me: Oh really? Did you see the AMAs? They sang a cover of another song. I've had the time of my life. Mom: Oh yeah maybe that was it.
3) Something that cannot be said because it involves possible Christmas presents for someone. But it was funny.

Also, she is giving me money to buy a mini laptop for Christmas. Yay! This is perfect because I was just complaining today about how heavy my laptop is. I need to talk to you Mr. Technology to make sure I want a laptop vs. an ipad.

New development: Mom just told me she got creative and bought a book but then lost the motivation to do anything.

I obviously want to make something from it real bad! And by something I mean EVERYTHING! But she didn't get any of the ingredients. They are all designs off of cake balls which we made last year. Maybe I can talk her into making one of them on Saturday. If not, I found some fancy white chocolate brownie mix thing that we can make.

Unrelated, but I'm glad Amber lost custody of her child because she's a horrible mother and person, I'm mad at the Thunder for hurting Rondo and keeping him out YET ANOTHER game, and a picture my mom just gave me from Labor Day.

High point: Stepping off the plane and feeling at home.

Low point: My mom dissing my hair.

On deck: Tomorrow. Thanksgiving 1 in Richmond. (Yes, it is Thanksgiving ONE because Friday is Thanksgiving two. When you have a nurse in your family sometimes you have holidays twice.)