Through a whole serious of crappy events this morning we missed our flight to the bahamas. I've never missed a flight in my life. It was horrible.

First, Travis had a friend scheduled to pick us up at 7am to drive us to the airport. First mistake right there. Sweet guy. NEVER on time. He showed up at 7:30 and the difference of traffic in that half hour is pretty huge since we live downtown in atlanta.

So we book it to the airport and, amazingly, still got there at 8:05.But you should have SEEN the lines at the desk. No problem, we can do the electronic check in...Well, after 10 minutes of it not finding our confirmation we went to stand in the huge line, assuming that we just needed to. After 10 minutes int he line, an attendant tells us that we CAN do the e-check, but have to talk to the service person who is standing there doing nothing. So off we go, thrilled to be skipping the rest of the line.

We gave her our confirmation number and that's when the real problems started... First thing she asked for? Passports. You should have seen Trav's face. He knew exactly where they were. At home in the desk. Ummm....yeah. To be honest, I didn't even know we needed them. I assumed it was the smae as going to Puerto Rico, Mexico or Cnanda. BUt TRavis knew...
The panic begins. It's now 8:40 and the flight is at 9:38. Luckily the babysitter has our car, but isn't too comfortable driving downtown or near the airport. Not sure why, but whatever.
Poor Kathryn threw the kids in the car and headed our way in what was left of rush hour traffic. Thank god for the HOV lane with the kids! She got there at 9:02 and we were checked in by 9:05.
Then we flew. I used my pregnant powers to convince the employee at the security check to let us skip the line. THat was great. Then I got the peopel at the actual check out who are puting their bags through to let us jump in front. The tram was right on time. Doors closed right as we jumped on.
As the tram pulled up to the C terminal for us to get off, Trav was the first one out the door. It was 9:09. The gates supposedly close 10 minutes before..
I stayed back to walk the bags (we weren't checking any) as Trav bookes it up the 2 storry escalator thats BROKEN. THen of course, we are at gate 3, all the way at the end...
I lugged the 1 bag up the damn broken escalator, thinking it wouldn't be a big deal. I'm pregnant, not handicapped, right? Well, half way up I knew it was a mistake. The bigger mistake was letting Trav take my bag with my inhaler... NOT good. By the time I got to the top people were looking at me becasue I was breathign hard. Then the real wheezing set in. I didn't knwo what to do. I needed to stop so I could breath, but I HAD to get to Travis with my inhaler, at the other end of the terminal. I don't know how I did it. By the time I got ot the desk my lips wer numb and I was shaking. I was right at the verge of passing out. And it was 9:12.
I was too busy puffing my inhaler and trying not to throwup to understand what was going on. We made it, right? Wrong. THey changed the friggin departure time to 9:20. Which meant the doors closed 2 minutes before we made it. They knew we checled in at 9, but couldn't do anything about it, they said.
I'm so embarassed. I cried. I think the fact that I almost passed out did it. I haven't had an asthma attack like that in over a year. TEh fact that we made the time as it should have been, but they had moved the time up so it was all for nothing. At least it was crying quietly. I couldn't even talk for 10 minutes. The lady in charge came up and asked what we wanted to do. Umm, other than get on the friggin plane that was still sitting there? I just wanted to sit there and be mind numb for a minute.
So, we told her to go ahead and reschedule us for tomorrow. Well, trav did. I was still staring into space on my albuterol high. It took her a minute to come back, and in that time I gained control of my brain again. She came back and said that there was really no way we could have made it, since we had checked in at 9. I looked at her and said "We've been here since 8. We didn't know we needed our passports. I didn't consider it international because Airtran doesn't have international flights." You should have seen the look on her face. She was horrified. I think they didn't let us on to make a point since we were 'late'.

After we got the tickets squared away, we called AIrtran and they were able to extend our return flight to monday morning. We called the owner of the condo we are renting, and he said it is available for the extra 2 nights, and only charged us for 1!! Not only that, he's just going to take it out of our security depsit, instead of make us come up with more $$. GREAT GUY! We were going to be 3 nights, but now we will be 5, since there aren't any return flights available Saturday or Sunday.
We sat ther for an hour before we were ready to move. And, amazingly we were pretty much over it by the time we got up. We went and ate lunch at the Houlihan's in the Airport, and then rode the Marta Train back to downtown,s o that KAthryn didn't have to pick us up again. We came home and took a nap with the kids and then took them to the Aquarium for a couple of hours. It was the least busy it's ever been. IT was great.

In the long run, we will get 2 extra days in the Bahamas, and we got to spend the day with the kids. No errands, no comittements. It's been nice.

So, now I'm going to go grill the steaks I go fir dinner and pretend that we are on the beach. We sure as **** better be tomorrow!!!

Evening all. I have a quick 5 minutes before bed. Been a pretty good last two days. I went to bed at 8 last night and that seemed to help a bit.
We had rain all day so I just stayed in when I got home and did one of my exercise dvds.

Bob- OT is not my choice . Its always mandatory when they schedule it. People are coming in on Saturday to get their hours in. Not me. Im not giving up my weekend unless Im forced to.

Hope everyones eating well and getting some exercise in!

Ok, if anyone actually read all of that, you're amazing!! I jsut cpied it over from my blog to let you all know what is going on. I think we deserve an award for making it from check-in to the gate in undre 15 minutes at the ATLANTA AIRPORT!!

I've eaten well today, except for a couple of poor-me oreos. How they got in my house, I don't know...

I'm not touching the computer anymore tonight. I'm on vacation, dang it!!!

Just a fly-by to say hi and let you all know I'm still here. I'm real tired- its real late and I'm heading to bed! I will check back in the morning and TRY to post a pic or two maybe!!! Night night. MUNCH

Evening! Dinner was Asian chicken patties, and stir fried nappa. It was good! I skipped the rice.

TALITHA: I am so sorry you missed the flight! What an experience! But what a blessing to have extra time there! Enjoy!

MUNCH: Sweet dreams!

CINDY: Hope you rest well too!

BOB: Get that meter! PLEASE. You can purchase one from even Publix. A small vial of test strips will last you a long time if you are only testing once a week to monitor the levels. How I wish I had had a meter six months, or even a year ago! I have a horrible feeling my bg was really high for a long long time...like since my hysterectomy 18 months ago!

My bg levels were good tonight.

Hey, where is Gator? Country? Tech? Nicolee is missing too...

Where is everyone??? we're having standardized testing here too. I guess all of Georgia is at the same time. My kids have always been good "test-takers" so I don't stress too much about it. It is a very busy week otherwise too. We had dance pictures on Monday, chorus concert tomorrow, and band banquet on Friday. Then we have a dance competition this weekend! Rachel is dancing both Saturday night and Sunday night in downtown Atlanta. Thankfully next week is a little calmer!

I had my allergy test on Monday and reacted to everything! I start my shots on Monday. Sean and I will have a date every week!

Hope everyone has a great day!

Hi everyone,

I'm still very tired from the wedding Friday nite. I haven't had a day off work until today. It rained here all nite long and most of the day it has misted. We really needed the rain to. It rained most of the day before the wedding and about 1/2 hour before the wedding started it quit and the sun came out. She had an outdoor wedding so everything turned out beautiful. Was kinda worried with all the rain but everything worked out great. I am down 2 more lbs. That makes 36 lbs gone YIIPPPEEE!!!!!

Hope everyone has a wonderful day!!!!

Start weight-275
Weight right now-239
Goal weight-180

Hi, just a fly by, I am swamped still.

Made it to the gym last night and will go tonight. DH & DD won't go tomorrow so I will have to go by myself.

Bob, for some reason my emails to you come back, I need to check your address. I am anxiously awaiting your BL results.

Talitha, I'm so sorry you missed your plane. Hope evrything works out. Enjoy your extra days. Passports are needed for every where at the end of this year.

to everyone else. Got to run.

GOOD EVENING EVERY BUDDY!!


We're back from dinner. I ended up having a cup of CLAM CHOWDER and a GRILLED COMBO PLATTER..they have changed their SCAMPI recipe and I didn't want to take the chance of being disapointed. Everything was WONDERFUL, but we have enough left for another meal! WHEW...I'M FULL!!

MONET...I'm taking Kate to the DOC on Friday afternoon. I'll get him to write me a script then. I'll get the meter you're talking about because of the rebate. Did you say you got it at PUBLIX?? Good idea to let the KIDLET'S know what you're doing. I'm sure they were facinated more than you realize. I bet when they went home, they told their parents all about your little talk with them.

THUNDER...You need to just get some rest...The took a lot of BRAIN ACTION
so TAKE A BREAK!!!

THIN...FLORIDA has already done their testing and the scores have already come in. A lot of improvement from last year. I have a problem with these tests. The Teachers tend to stray from the normal studies and totally focus on these tests. Down here, if they don't pass this test, they can't graduate or pass to the next grade. I don't agree with that either! WHAT'S UP WITH SCHOOL THESE DAYS!!!!

Was TALITHA going today?



I'm off to see what I can get in to....EVERYONE have a GREAT EVENING!!!




BOB