Venting!!

You may have heard that there are some big to-do's happening here in DC in the next week or so. Well, unlike the millions of ppl that are flocking to DC, I'm getting the heck outta Dodge. Actually, this has nothing to do with the inauguration activities; we are surprising my mom for her birthday and flying in for a mini-family reunion. It just happens to coincide with the inaugural.

This has been in the planning for over a year. Got my plane tickets last summer, booked the hotel last May, etc. Took care of the little details like arranging for 2 of the dogs to stay with a friend & getting a ride to the airport from another friend back in about November or early December. Yep, this time, the only last-minute scrambling was going to be packing and finding a good book to read on the plane.

Yeah, right.

First, the person who was supposed to take my dogs for the weekend forgot & he's not available. Luckily, there are more ppl coming into town than leaving, so it looks like I can still get them into the boarding kennel. Not ideal, but at least it's covered.

Then the person who was going to take me to the airport is backing out. Well, not officially backing out, but talking about how long/packed a day it'll be and hinting that it'd be nice if I could at least look into other options. Usually, I'd just take Metro & the subway itself would get me there in plenty of time, but the bus that I take to get to the metro doesn't start running early enough for that to be an option. I've booked an airport shuttle instead, so again, it's covered, it's more that I hate scrambling last minute & if I'd known it was an issue even a week or so ago, I probably could have made different arrangements/found someone else who could have given me a lift.

Adding onto that is the camera I ordered online & want to have to take with me was shipped with a signature required. Usually, that means the Fed Ex guy comes by, when he findsI'm not there, he leaves a slip; I sign the slip & he leaves the package the next day. Nope. Not this time. That's not good enough. Nor would it be ok to have a neighbor sign for it. Someone must physically be in my house when the Fed Ex guy comes by & must sign for it at that moment....I know it's something that protects both the vendor and me, but why this time/this week?

I had such plans of being able to neatly wrap up all loose ends, easily & smoothly, and gently glide into a mini-vacation calmly & unflustered. Not likely to happen. *sigh*

Update: I'm better now. I just needed to get it out of my system. Sorry for whining.