Day: May 4, 2012

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Home Truly Is Where I’m Parked

After dinner this evening, I headed back to the hotel to grab a few things then I pointed the rental car in the direction of home. I knew that home would be warmer than the hotel, but it would have my bed and my cats. My cats… I don’t think I’ve ever been so happy to see them. They are fine. The temps today were in the 90s but the rig is nowhere near an oven, so I know they were okay. They seemed pretty happy to see me, too.

I’ll be spending a good part of tomorrow at home, but I will probably head back to the hotel for the night. I hope I can renew the room for several more days beyond Monday, but when I tried to book for the full week online, there was absolutely no availability.

I was quite angry to get a 5:30AM wake up call today when I fell asleep around 5. The call request was left in the system after the last person checked out. The call startled me so much that I wasn’t able to get back to sleep till almost 7AM and by 9AM, my body had decided it was daytime and that was that.

I don’t expect to hear anything from the insurance companies until noon Monday at the earliest. If I want to get back to Canada to attend the family event on the 19th, I just may have to get the repairs started without knowing who will be picking up the tab. I still don’t know how I would pay for them even if I was to get reimbursed later. But there’s no sense driving myself crazy with this over the weekend.

Now, reader Gary said something in a comment today about a cold beer and I think that’s a good idea. 🙂

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A Long Overdue Hampton Roads Homecoming

Around 5 this afternoon, I was finally able to take off and do the 45 miles that would take me to the end of this segment of my trip. I never thought I would be so grateful to see an Econolodge; I’m staying at the same hotel I stayed at four years ago. Would you believe that I was given the same room?! Hilarious!

I texted my friend an “OMG, I made it!!!” message, took a shower, and headed over to pick her up. I can’t even describe how wonderful it was to finally make it. The emotions were almost overwhelming.

I’d joked that I had sent a ‘huge’ Amazon order over to her place. It turns out that said order arrived in pieces so there was a ton of boxes waiting for me. We loaded up the car and came back to the hotel. It’d been so long since I’d made up the order that I didn’t remember most of what was in those boxes. It turns out there was a lot of useful stuff, including a new electric blanket with a timer on it. 🙂

My friend had bought tickets for the midnight premiere of The Avengers (thank you!!!) so we headed out for a very late Applebee’s dinner that will double as brunch tomorrow. The movie was awesome and hilarious and totally worth the insanely long day. It’s 3:45AM right now and I can’t remember the last time I was up so late. I’ve planned a well earned sleep in. 🙂