one of the funny things about living in alaska is getting used to your new travel schedule. no matter where you're going, if it's outside Alaska, it's more likely than not that you'll be taking a red eye. That's right -- Red Eye -- it's not just for broke college kids anymore. There are some advantages to this. Like you can work a full day the day of your flight and not have to think twice about the fact that you haven't started packing yet. And you can clean your house so that when you come back you don't have to brave a war zone of dirty dishes and laundry.
Unfortunately, you can also accomplish all of these taks and still have HOURS to go before the cab comes to take you to the airport.
So I'm watching tivoed episodes of myth busters, while Terry is in the garage waxing our friend Jeannette's skis. (A small price to pay for house+dogsitting!). But I'm really tired and a little crabby and not necessarily looking forward to 8-9 hours of air travel, plus waiting around airports, plus getting a rental car, plus going to a doctor's appointment all before i come near a bed again.
Anyhooo, the plan is to leave ANC at 1:30 a.m., arrive in SAT at 1:30 p.m. Thursday afternoon, and drive straight to the doctor's office for a pre-surgery check-up. That's when we should find out whether he still thinks I'm a candidate for the far-less-invasive "resurfacing" procedure, or whether he thinks I need a total shoulder replacement. Assuming nothing goes terribly terribly wrong, we'll hang out in SAT for the weekend (my mom will come join us starting Friday), meet some long-lost-relatives and family friends (who knew?) and then head to the hospital either sunday night or Monday morning.
But for now, I'm just counting the hours until we get to the airport and I can take a Tylenol P.M. Ahh, glorious airline sleep.
Posted by cmandala at January 24, 2007 08:59 PM