Thirteen Thursday: The Jet Set-back
1. The night after my fisherman brother John brought lobsters home and I video-taped them, he said, “Colleen, I have something else for you to take pictures of” and then he spread THESE out on the table.
2. I guess I’m a full-time beach bum now, at least for the rest of August. After spending ten days visiting my family in the Massachusetts beach town I grew up in, and with only one day at home in Floyd, I’m heading out with Joe to visit his mother who also lives by the beach.
3. While in Hull, an old friend was hitting on me. He’s done that since high school and I guess he feels compelled to keep up the charade. When I reminded him that I was happily married, he assured me that he was harmless, saying, “I’m impotent.”
4. We then went on to have a long conversation about how the drug Cialis works because we are just that comfortable with each other and I was curious, never having known anyone who used it. (His condition is a side effect of heart medication).
5. At the airport check-in a bottle of my facial cleanser was confiscated when it was determined to be a tad too big for what they allow. The same thing happened to Deana a couple of weeks ago, but she had time to put hers back in her car. With fifteen minutes before my plane took off, I was randomly chosen to be patted down and have my bags checked, so I wasn’t so lucky (besides the fact that I had no car to take it to).
6. During the bag check, feeling sure I was going to miss my plane, I couldn’t tell if I was breathing deeply to calm myself down, or if I was hyperventilating.
7. Deana’s confiscated skin care product cost over $40. Mine was a fruit enzyme cleanser from Mychelle for about $16. I like Mychelle products because they contain no parabens (estrogen mimicker), artificial chemicals, colors, or fragrances.
8. Your body absorbs about 50% of what you put on your skin, which is why when I buy a skin product, I ask myself, ‘could I eat this?”
9. Losing the bottle of facial cleanser and being patted down at the airport was the least of my problems. I hope to write more about the cancelled flights I endured and an unscheduled overnight in Saugus, eight miles from Logan on Boston’s north shore. I’m calling this unwritten pieced “The Saugus Saga.”
10. The good news was that because of the delay I flew into Roanoke instead of Greensboro, which meant that Joe (who picked me up) and I were able to get a twenty minute fix of baby Bryce before heading up the mountain to Floyd. Video clip is HERE.
11. I was so happy to see the rolling Blue Ridge Mountains from the plane window that I took several photos of them. With the focused camera I could stop the plane propeller but when I looked at it with my eye it was going too fast to see.
12. I want to put a door and door frame that opens to nowhere in my yard so I can imagine myself walking through it while imagining a new frame of mind.
13. Sanity should return in September.
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August 13th, 2008 10:20 pm
So what kind of facial cleanser were you forced to resort to on the trip?
August 13th, 2008 10:32 pm
I just used a face cloth with hot water and a little bit of soap. Luckily I had some Mychelle moisturizer and a toner spritzer to compensate for whatever drying occured. The cleanser is creamy and smells like grapefruit. I’m trying to decide if I should buy some more or just continue to live without it.
August 13th, 2008 10:47 pm
I’d be interested in hearing more about these skin products your talking about- maybe you could do a TT about them. Great list!
August 13th, 2008 11:04 pm
Click the underline link on Mychelle! They’re good.
August 14th, 2008 3:51 am
gonna check out the facial cleanser you mentioned. i have rosacea and have to use oil free products to keep from having that rosey look of burned cheeks! hope your trip to your mother-in-law’s is as much fun as you just had. what beach is that one? girl, you have had quite an august!
August 14th, 2008 6:38 am
I had a friend like the old one you describe. He too was a flirt. We talked about everything too.
Sorry about all that biz at the airport. I never liked flying; all that up close and personal doubly puts me off now!
Enjoy the beach, wherever you find it!
August 14th, 2008 7:06 am
1. Those crabs are so ugly, they’re cute! It’s hard for me to eat things if I have to kill them.
2. I’m heading to Utah next month and am so not looking forward to the airline experience.
3. Thanks for the link to MyChelle – I actually use very little of anything, but when I do, it might be nice to use this stuff.
4. Off to DC today and will miss yet another SWN. The only one I’ve gotten to neither you or Mara or Sally were there. Twasn’t quite the same…
August 14th, 2008 8:01 am
I’m glad you got back safely. That crab blowing bubbles was a hoot!!
August 14th, 2008 9:46 am
Traveling by air has become the same painful endurance as traveling by wagon train, but with complete invasion of privacy thrown in for good measure.
August 14th, 2008 9:56 am
Unfirtunately I cannot see anytghing on YouTube these days…If you had those Videos on your blog, I could see them….Don’t Ask…! How nice to be a Beach Bum for the rest of Agust, my dear. Enjoy every minute of it!
August 14th, 2008 11:13 am
You’re quite the gad-about these days! But that is what summer is for.
August 14th, 2008 12:13 pm
Happy TT and here’s to hoping sanity returns before September.
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August 14th, 2008 2:18 pm
cute crabs!!!
August 14th, 2008 2:22 pm
How lovely – a month at the beach in August. I can’t think of a better way to spend the month. So how about March in Paris? 😉
How’s the garden growing?
August 14th, 2008 3:10 pm
We’re bringing a sack of tomatoes and corn to Joe’s mom’s beach house (in Deleware).
Tabor, you crack me up.
Naomi, I don’t think my blog lets me put up videos or I don’t know how to do it.
August 14th, 2008 6:32 pm
#3 fell out of my chair – swooned on #10 lucky you sandy
August 14th, 2008 8:55 pm
Baby Bryce is so cute. I can only hope that sanity will return in September.
August 15th, 2008 9:08 am
Thank you for this treat of a T13… Baby Bryce is adorable!!….and as for # 12….I would die for that one right now! I’m not sure if I want sanity to return in September….not if it makes you write differently to this :)!!
bella 🙂
August 15th, 2008 4:12 pm
This weeks’ 13 reads like a travel diary. 🙂 Fun.
I have vowed to catch more ocean breezes this coming year.
~S
August 22nd, 2008 11:54 pm
Colleen, #12 fits the Weekend Wordsmith prompt of Framed I posted on May 9, 2008. Would you consider letting me link here?
“I want to put a door and door frame that opens to nowhere in my yard so I can imagine myself walking through it while imagining a new frame of mind.”
This actually is sound advice … a symbolic act of gaining closure and moving on. Thanks for sharing it.
August 22nd, 2008 11:56 pm
Sure Bonnie. I’d be honor for you to link here.