Today I decided to try something new...waking up with Heather and Becky at normal people hours and drive out with them to take Heather to work....it was my last day here and I figured I'd get a head start on the day and spend some more time hanging out.
All went well, we dropped Heather off, got home and sat on the couch to watch the weather channel (Nashville's favorite channel). There were tornado warnings all night and I was keeping an eye on their progress seeing as how I was to fly out at 6pm.
One problem about watching the weather channel at 8am after having slept 3 hours at night, and now wearing a very cozy hoodie and a tiny French Bulldog wedged between your knees...you tend to pass the fuck out on the couch for an unknown amount of hours like someone crept up behind you and clubbed you over the head with a sledge hammer.
One thing led to another and when I woke up Becky was gone and it was 1pm....again.
It's not often I hit this kind of vortex of time traveling and black holes of sleep. But when I do, I wake up lost and confused.
After finally realizing I was suppose to get ready and be packed by 3:30pm, I promptly sat for another hour watching the news tell me that Armageddon was upon us and there was no way I was flying out that night.
Turns out, the airlines don't watch the same news as we do, because when I called to find out if we were still flying, they assured me all was ok. It certainly didn't look or sound ok outside...with crashing lighting and thunder loud enough to make me jump a few times.
It was 3:15, so I went to pack.
We headed out to grab Heather on the way to the airport...shortly into our drive there we realized the weather didn't seem to be getting any better. Regardless, we grabbed Heather and headed to the airport.
After 15 minutes in traffic and what looked like certain death by tornado or flood on the freeway, I decide to call the airline one more time...my flight was flagged for being delayed and hour and a half and my connecting flight was only an hour after my previously scheduled flight. No matter the amount of creative math, I was not going to make my connection and really didn't feel like sleeping at the airport.
Surprisingly, the lady that picked up my call had no problem changing my flight to tomorrow! Early in the morning, but out of the harm of the tornadoes!
I don't care how hard ass you are, nobody wants to fly in turbulence like that!
Tonight, it's nachos time and a movie (Black Swan for the Nth time for me...I'm not complaining)
Much needed chilling time. Here's to hoping we don't get hit by one of those gnarly looking wind and rain tunnels down in Alabama :/
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