On My Way..........

Well well.....it's finally here.....

I'm off and on the road for the next 10 weeks.....basically till the end of September.

How did this happen? Some travel is wedding related......and some travel is Gina-related.

Start me off on a trip and if you don't corral me .....I'll start adding here and there and suddenly it becomes quite an adventure. I start one heck of an adventure towards the end of July....I'm estimating 5000 miles?

But my first trip will be traveling to familiar grounds.....heading to Ohio and Chicago. Ohio for more wedding planning....(we are a bit BEHIND in the wedding-to-do-list) then to Chicago to visit some friends....and pick up Kielbasa and Kolaches.....Polish food for the wedding that will have to come home with me....get specially wrapped and then frozen till the Big Day.

Then the Big Adventure.....but I don't want to spill the beans on that trip yet.....although I find myself looking more and more forward to it. I'm doing a significant portion solo....which will be good for me.

Lately....I have been feeling flat....not my usual animated Gina self.......sort of like a female version of Flat Stanley.

I'm guessing the realization and acceptance of my parents' death....plus the lose of some friends here and there....has finally settled in.

When much is taken.....one can deflate...and I feel deflated.

So I'm hoping a long road trip....pumps me up....makes me feel animated and floats my soul.

My flatness has affected my writing and hence my blogging.....it's been hard to find something funny and interesting in my life.....cause everything seems so ...well....flat.

I hope my travels freshen my perspective and there's plenty of funny and interesting things along the way.

Keeping my fingers crossed...pulling the suitcases out of the attic tonight.

Daughter time

Up in Ohio spending time with my daughter.

It's been wonderful to do girlie things....shopping....studying lamps.....buying a dress or two.

We've also started planning for her wedding which will be set for next summer sometime.

She originally wanted to get married in Puerto Rico but we spent the weekend online looking at estates in the Hamptons in New York. Estates usually have 10-15 bedrooms in big houses on big lots. Instead of renting two smaller houses....we are looking at a happy group of 25 friends and relatives in one big house....at least I hope it would be happy.

One of the houses we looked at.....and was our first choice is being sold.....and we are warming up to an older home close to the beach. Still for such an important occasion.....it gives us an excuse to visit the beach and Long Island for a short stint this spring in order to check the facilities out.

Tomorrow she wants to show me some rings she is looking at.....and then we'll spend some time looking at properties again.

This evening....she introduced me to the HBO series....Tru Blood.....I was hesistant to watch it....because vampires scare me....but after the third episode in a row....I decided to leave and return to my hotel room because I would have remained glued to the couch till the wee hours of the morning watching episode after episode.

I love her cat Drama.....he's 16 pounds of sass....kind of a feline bulldog. I distinctly heard him say....."three episodes is enough Gina" tonight.

On the Road Again.....

Well......I've changed my ringtone on my Iphone....and packed my one slim bag.

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I'm on the road again.....7am flight to D.C.

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Hopefully I missed some of the bad weather out East. I assume it'll wait for me till I try to get home.....perhaps I can be diverted someplace more interesting than Dallas this time. How about Florida? Or the Virgin Islands?

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I'm accompaning my hub to his professional conference for a few days. We used to live in Maryland....not too far from D.C. The last time we went into the city, we were packing strollers.

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So one of us got the bright idea it might be fun to actually see the Museums.....instead of the restrooms or cafes inside the museum ( the two favorite haunts of Mommies and Daddies with kids).

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So I'm off......I'm not sure if I'm really packed or even if I'm really ready to go......but my Iphone is ready.....and primed with....Willie Nelson's ....On the Road Again.

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I wonder how it will sound at 4:15AM????

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