It's GOOD to be HOME!!

So I am finally back after 24 hrs of traveling yesterday.  It started with a flight from Brazil to Washington D.C. at 9PM Saturday night and ended with a flight from LAX to SLC at 540 PM Sunday night.  I don't know if any of you have ever flown standby but it is VERY stressful!!! Nothing is guaranteed.  You never know if your gonna get on the flight until the last minute and if you don't make it then all of your plans are screwed.  We encountered this when we were trying to get to Sao Paulo. We were trying for a flight that had over 100 open seats so we weren't nervous at all about making the flight.  We were soooo wrong.  Apparently because there wasn't many passengers on the plane they decided to put a bunch of cargo on instead and so they put a weight restriction on the flight and we didn't get on.  It was a blessing in disguise though because then we were able to spend the night in a comfy bed at the Marriott and do some sightseeing the next day.  Thankfully were able to get on the flights we really needed to like the one from Brazil back to the US.  Everything else we just had to make it work and improvise a little.  Our plans were to go through Denver and arrive in Utah at 130 PM but ended having to stop in LA instead and got home at 830 PM.  Needless to say even though getting to and from Brazil was a stressful nightmare it was totally worth it and I'd do it again........just not anytime soon!!!  I had a wonderful time in Brazil and it was such an eye opening experience.  I will always remember the people I met and how gracious and kind they were.  Even though didn't have a lot they still offered us what they had.  Now that I am done venting about traveling I will get to work on posting some of my pictures so you can see how crazy Brazil is.  I give you props Jess for living there for 18 months.  I don't think I would have survived.    

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1.       I am obsessed with sports.  It actually is more like an addiction, but I truly can’t get enough.  Whether it’s the Olympics or professional sports it doesn’t matter.  I am fortunate to have the baseball and football package at my house so I never have to miss a Yankee or Raiders game.  In the event that I do have plans when they are on I have my trusty phone to keep me updated to the minute.  I usually watch Sports Center at least twice a day and check ESPN’s website daily because you never know when someone gets traded and injured and I have to keep up on that stuff.

2.       I love scary movies.  This is something that me and Jessica definitely don’t have in common!!! She hates them, but luckily I have a good friend Lori that loves them as much as I do.  I am always over at her housing watching the latest horror movie.  It doesn’t matter if it’s a slasher flick, ghost story, or zombie movie.  I love them all. 

3.      I am the worst at telling time.  Jessica and I have had some issues with this in the past and so now I just don’t even wear a watch.  When I used to wear one it was strictly for fashion…..it usually didn’t even have the right time anyways.  If by chance I had set it to current time and someone asked what the time was I would just hold up my watch and let them figure it out because I wasn’t about to do it.  Thank goodness for cell phones.

4.      I love new music.  I am always getting new music from other people or trading cd’s with them.  I like to make people cd mixes and imixes.  I put a lot of time an effort into my mixes.  I don’t just throw a bunch of stuff on there.  I really think about where I want each song to go.  If you have been my friend for more than a couple of years I am sure that you have at least one of my mixes in your possession.

5.      I like to watch movies on Closed Captioning. When I used to have a room next to my parents they were always yelling at me to turn down my t.v. so I started watching it on CC and it just kinda stuck.  For the most part I will watch it without, but if I’m having a hard time understanding what a person is saying I will just turn on the CC and the problem is solved.

6.      I have no sense of direction.  I know my left and right (unlike Jodi), but I haven’t quite figured out the whole North, South, East, West thing.  Looking at a map I can figure it out because up is always North and so forth.  But when I am in a situation with no map, I tend to struggle.  My family all make fun of me because whatever direction I am heading I say is North.  I know it’s not right I just haven’t quite trained myself how to do it correctly.  Even with the mountains!!