Happy First Normal Day of the Year!
Jan. 3rd, 2023 05:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
walkitoutOK, we are now home! We got home last night. I will be doing catch-up posts, soon, I swear! I’ve been pre-occupied with other thoughts today.
I had a visit with M.! They are no longer testing positive for covid, altho they have lingering coughs and similar. So far — bizarrely — none of us are feeling sick. So. Because it was cold (but above freezing) and raining, we did not walk, but we did have an indoor visit.
R. went to Costco and Roche Bros.
The hold mail arrived and I went through that. A couple presents and a lot of cards. Very fun! Some bills, obviously.
ETA:
Catch Up Posts completed!
This was a really complicated trip to plan and implement. We had thought we would not see MIL, because she was headed north as we headed south. In the end, we _did_ get a visit for part of one day, and we had a unalloyed good time. Really, really unexpected bonus.
Traveling with my sister and her family is important to me, and I love all of them. Also, they are deeply challenging people, full stop. This is the _first_ trip I have ever done with her where there wasn’t at least one knock down drag out negative interaction with a lot of drama. Every, freaking trip. I post-mortem all of them, and I have learned so much over the years from these experiences and they are all miserable and I hate every bit of those interactions and we _did not have one of those this time_. I cannot even express how gleeful this makes me.
R. and I had lunch today at Benjarong (not much in the way of groceries and almost no veg, and we hadn’t had much time just the two of us for a while) and talked over some things, mostly to do with the canceled flight and subsequent travel choices. I’m going to be doing a bunch of research on how to handle rebooked itineraries that don’t work super good. He understands that he can’t be complaining about the get to the airport 2 hours before flight rule any more. We both understand what “late” means on the bag tag, and to escalate immediately. I spent a chunk of today planning packing for our next Disney trip, because JetBlue Terminal C is _such_ a haul from rental car drop off, so I have to pack much lighter if we are going to move at a reasonable pace. I’m also going to be researching airport lounges in hopes we can find quieter spaces for R. when he is at an airport, as they really bother his tinnitus.
I had a visit with M.! They are no longer testing positive for covid, altho they have lingering coughs and similar. So far — bizarrely — none of us are feeling sick. So. Because it was cold (but above freezing) and raining, we did not walk, but we did have an indoor visit.
R. went to Costco and Roche Bros.
The hold mail arrived and I went through that. A couple presents and a lot of cards. Very fun! Some bills, obviously.
ETA:
Catch Up Posts completed!
This was a really complicated trip to plan and implement. We had thought we would not see MIL, because she was headed north as we headed south. In the end, we _did_ get a visit for part of one day, and we had a unalloyed good time. Really, really unexpected bonus.
Traveling with my sister and her family is important to me, and I love all of them. Also, they are deeply challenging people, full stop. This is the _first_ trip I have ever done with her where there wasn’t at least one knock down drag out negative interaction with a lot of drama. Every, freaking trip. I post-mortem all of them, and I have learned so much over the years from these experiences and they are all miserable and I hate every bit of those interactions and we _did not have one of those this time_. I cannot even express how gleeful this makes me.
R. and I had lunch today at Benjarong (not much in the way of groceries and almost no veg, and we hadn’t had much time just the two of us for a while) and talked over some things, mostly to do with the canceled flight and subsequent travel choices. I’m going to be doing a bunch of research on how to handle rebooked itineraries that don’t work super good. He understands that he can’t be complaining about the get to the airport 2 hours before flight rule any more. We both understand what “late” means on the bag tag, and to escalate immediately. I spent a chunk of today planning packing for our next Disney trip, because JetBlue Terminal C is _such_ a haul from rental car drop off, so I have to pack much lighter if we are going to move at a reasonable pace. I’m also going to be researching airport lounges in hopes we can find quieter spaces for R. when he is at an airport, as they really bother his tinnitus.