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So...I'm completely skipping the days leading up to PMC by posting these now, but I want to get this out there. To whet your appetite...



( OMG I MET THE POWER RANGERS! )

So, my vacation officially started Thursday morning. Me, being the insane-crazy-idiot I can sometimes be, went to bed at about 1am Thursday morning. I was woken up two hours later at 3am and were on the road by 4:10am.

Yeeeeeeeaaaaaaahhhhhh. Jade sleep in car, please, kthanx.

The drive through NM to AZ was fun. I will post pics later. Much much later.

Today, to kill time before we could check into the hotel in AZ, we visited family. My cousin had a baby a little over a week ago--I held him for most of the first visit and a good portion of the second. I also played with Nicholas' two year old sister and five year old cousin--they were so cute and adorable and sweet! Then we stopped by and said hi to purplestripe66 at work. At first we kinda looked at each other cause we weren't sure (in my defense, she was wearing a HAT and I've never seen her in a hat) but then realized hey! Its her!

Then there was hugs. Ruby gives the best hugs. :D And from the excited chatter, I think my dad figured out we're both excited for our trip!

Introduced the family, discussed a few things. Dad admitted he was gonna stalk her house tomorrow so he knows where he's going Sunday morning when we pick her up (am hoping tsukino_akume is there so I can say hi on Sunday morning). I am also supposed to call and make sure Ruby is actually awake before we leave.

Afterwards we went back to visit with family some more and surprised my aunt and uncle, who did not know we were coming.

Then I got a shock. When I was fourteen, I really wanted my grandmothers jewelry box. It'd been passed from oldest daughter to oldest daughter and when grandma died, it went to my aunt. She doesn't have kids though so she decided it was going to me. I'm not technically the oldest girl but...yeah. My aunt and mom agreed I would take better care of it than my cousin. So I got the jewelry box while visiting her. My sister got a turqiose bracelet that originally belonged to our great great grandmother.

Tomorrow is my uncle again and then clex_monki89 for visiting and quite possibly another kidnapping attempt. >.< Also? FOOOOOOD! Then Sunday we head out to California.

I was gonna do more in depth posts about the trip and I'll try once we get to California (Ruby can help!) but am too tired. I will have pictures eventually. :D

-Figure out my bill for school. Apparently, none of my grants/loans/etc. went through so I get to figure out why. *whimper* Not completely done, but will get it done today when I meet with my advisor to have him sign a paper for financial aid.
-Email professors to let them know I will not be in class for the first week and a half.
-Straighten up living room/kitchen
-Clean bathroom
-Clean bedroom
-Make space for Julia in bathroom/kitchen/living room
-Take out ALL trash
-Do ALL dishes
-Pack clothes AGAIN
-Pack toiletries/odds-n-ends
-Print out my paypal receipt for Morphicon so I can get my ticket (stick it in my laptop case so I don't lose it)
-write down feeding instructions for the fish
-Clean/replace water in both tanks
-Transfer funds from school card to bank card so school doesn't try taking my savings away
-Pay cell bill
-See about working next Monday/Tuesday to make up for hours lost on first week of school. Even if its small, I'd like to have some sort of a paycheck come September.
-Transfer all my pictures on digital camera to laptop.
-Buy poster boards to tape Morphicon logo to--I'm bringing two of them to have signed.
-Buy crafts stuff for shirts
-Laundry
-Figure out SR schedule
-Put Bryn's inflatable toast in suitcase so I don't forget it.
-Dye my hair
-Update fics before I leave for vaca

TEN DAYS TILL MORPHICON!!!!!!!

I leave in TEN DAYS! *SQUEALS*


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So, every so year or so my school replaces their old desktops in the labs and sells em. They have them now for $250 with everything under the cut. If I get my refund at the end of the month and they still have some, I'll be buying one simply for gaming and other odds and ends, which would leave Dillon (my laptop) for homework and my writing. :D

( Dell GX 620 )

I'd buy one now cause I do actually have about $1400 saved up but that's for Morphicon and I rather like the idea of having $800 spending money for that week. :p Point is, I can live without having a desktop, it would just be nice.

Speaking of Morphicon, the day we didn't know what we were gonna do, we figured out and purplestripe66 should be happy. We're going to this interactive science museum that has hundreds of hands-on experiments you can do. It should be interesting at the very least. :D

My dad finally got me a link to the website for the "hotel" we're staying at for Morphicon.

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Its not a traditional hotel. They're townhouse type places!

...purplestripe66, this vacation should be one to remember!

( For You're Viewing Pleasure---PICTURES! )

( Rough itinerary (I say rough cause dad hasn't quite figured out which day is gonna be which of the first four) )

( Prices )

Reason #1) They turned my PMC2 trip into a family vacation so I don't have to spend as much and will be in California for a week instead of three days.

Reason #2) When my dad mentioned our hotel sleeps 6, I asked for clarification. He didn't bat an eye before asking "Why, you got a friend who needs a place to crash for the Con?" He then agreed to pick up purplestripe66 on our way through AZ, let her crash with us in California, and drop her back off on our way home.

So, Ruby will be coming with us because she won't have to spend a gazillion dollars for, like, three days. I

Power Morphicon needs to be, like, now. *nods firmly*

So, I can't sleep even though I got a minimum of 4 hours sleep last night. I'm in the midst of working on farmville and I realized just after taking in a penguin that I keep adopting all the strays James MacLuran (Mack) sends out. Its getting a little crowded.

In other news, PMC2 will apparently be announcing new guests soon--at least according to their facebook page. Part of me really wants Emma Lahana not to go but that part is just cause I don't think she deserves a stalker. The other part of me REALLY wants her to attend cause then I can get someone else to ask her about her episode on Stargate Atlantis (what, you think I'm actually gonna be able to speak at this thing? Cha, right!)

Speaking of PMC2, I forked over $100 bucks the morning registration opened and thus have my Gold Ranger package/pass. Thank God I got a large refund and was smart enough to save it. :D
If all goes according to plan, I should have about $400 to spend at the Con. Possibly more because its the first weekend after classes start and I should be getting a refund then too.

I ordered 20 packs of original, still in their packs, MMPR trading cards the other day for an insanely cheap price and they apparently arrived in town this morning. Since its the weekend, I won't be picking them up until Monday. *iz sad*

PurpleStripe66 and I have been texting back and forth since she lacks a working computer--she's currently bored and I'm trying to talk her out of sleeping outside tonight.

OH! Raise your hand if you want a valentine! (If I don't have your address, I'll email you or message you through DW.