guardianlunnaei

Woo!!  Thank GOD for vacations!  

I'd gotten to the point of seriously stressed, where everyday I found myself wanting to wring someone's neck for any number of large or small (usually small) reasons.  So it was definitely time for a vacation.

Went to seem my sister and family in Houston for a week to have an early Christmas.  We mostly decided on now since going at Christmas would have cost about $200 more each way which would have mean not money for gifts.  We had a great time, though.

Spent time shopping, spent time just hanging out.  Got to help my nephews finish up a history project.  They mummified a chicken using methods as close to the ancient Egyptian methods as possible.  It was time to wrap the body/chicken about three days into my stay out there. X3  We also made frosting Christmas tress out of upside down ice cream cones, covered in homemade frosting and sprinkles for ornaments. XD  Talk about a sugar high!  Frosting Tree + Mexican Hot Chocolate = belly ache and sugar high. 9,9;;

All-in-all it was a great time.  Relaxing, and just what I needed before returning to work.

Had a, um...adventure in our attempt to get home, though.  Got tot he airport in Houston, got on our plane.  They had announced they would be closing the doors in a few minutes when someone decided he needed off the plane...NOW.  There were all kinds of things said about the guy.  Suspicious, definitely Arab, spoke little English....apparently his story was that a friend of his had gotten in an accident and he had decided to stay and go see his friend at the hospital instead of heading out/home/whatever.  He just vanished, though, didn't even wait for them to get his bags off the plane.  On the one hand, if his story was true, I can understand the rush, on the other hand....*shrugs* 

So a few minutes later another suspicious looking guy gets off the plane.  Hmmm.  I think some people panicked, because about five minutes later, when we'd still not taken off, about six more people decided they weren't staying.  They got off the plane and left too.

At this point they decided it was better to be safe than sorry and so we were all moved off of the plane for TSA to come in and do a sweep of the plane with dogs and all their testing equipment.  By the time they let us back on the plane it had been over two and a half hours from the time out plane was supposed to take off.  We were...definitely leaving late. ^,^;;

We got into LA just as our next flight was scheduled to take off.  We were informed they were holding the plane and we needed to hurry to the next gate (which of course is on the other side of the airport, right?).  We got on and headed home to Sacramento.  Amazingly we only got home about fifteen minutes late!  Not bad for a nearly two and a half hour delay. =D  And no one hurt, so even better. =3

Aaaaanyway, back to work for me. X3

No, seriously...they are.

One of my co-works is either obsessive compulsive or so freaked out of germs she goes ridiculous extremes to clean herself.  I'll stay away from the tmi, 'cause I don't wanna think about it, but let me ask you this, Flist...do you think it's ridiculous to spend 3 minutes washing your hands?

Do an experiment with me.  Go to your bathroom or kitchen sink (even better if you can do this in a public restroom, like a restaurant or something) and start washing your hands.  Add more soap for five seconds every fifteen seconds.  So wash for fifteen seconds, take five seconds to add more soap, wash for fifteen seconds, etc.   Have you done that for three minutes yet?  No?  I'll wait... 

Okay, now that your three minutes are done used 3-4 times as many paper towels as you usually do (no cloth towels, that's cheating!).  So if you usually use 1, use 3-4, and if you usually use 2 then uses 6-8.  All clean now?  Is the sink full of suds (if not you've done something wrong, because it should be), are your hands all dry from the hard water and excess of hard soap usually found in public restrooms?  Do you feel like you've killed enough trees today?

*SIGH*  Maybe I'm being too hard on her, but when you clog the toilet with TP every time you pee** you're using WAY too much, if you can get the already foam soap to sud in the sink, you're using too much, if you're killing small trees to dry your hands, you're using too much. 9,9;;

**I apoligize for the tmi, Flist...