Journey Home pt 2

I made it home safe and sound the other night. The start of the flight from Hartford was a little rough. I was in one of those small planes where it was 2-1 seating. I hate those planes with a passion. Anyway, while in Bradley International, I met up with a girl who was also going to Orlando who works as a Business Analyst and goes to UCF. Her name is Kim and she was pretty nice. We managed to sit together on the flight to Orlando from Chicago. Guess the guy we kinda booted out wasn't very thrilled, but he could deal. He got in wicked late! His fault... haha. Also I had the exit row, which was even better. <3 legroom.

I had free WiFi on the flight, only because I watched a Jetta ad and put in a promo code. Fun times! It was actually fairly decent wifi to boot. It was nice. Glad that my laptop's battery held out the entire flight.

Landed around 6ish, didn't even get my bag till about 6:50 and ugh when I got my bag, I wasn't a happy camper. I'm aware that generally airlines aren't responsible for "damage" and such, but there was oil ALL over the top of my bag. I wasn't impressed. So I went to the luggage office just to see if anything could be done.

While there, there was a Brazilian woman who was complaining that her luggage was damaged. From the looks of it, it was only cosmetic and it wasn't that big of a deal, but she made it a huge deal. It got to the point where she was calling the airline "Stupid" and calling everybody in the room "Stupid" and began ranting and raving and then she said "I hope one of your airplanes gets blown up!" and that's when I just couldn't hold back anymore. I turned around and told her to shut the hell up and that saying shit like that can get her arrested and that ontop of that, that's a shit thing to say and that she was an idiot and to get the hell out (cause by that time when she said that, she was stalling on leaving). It was actually fairly amusing because everybody in that room went quiet, even the woman who couldn't believe someone was actually standing up to her. 

Seriously, you just don't say that shit! Especially in an airport! I can understand that woman was pissed that her luggage was "damaged", but that does not give her the right to say insane stuff like that! Needless to say I was so mad I was shaking when that was done. I apologized to the attendants behind the desk, but they just shook their heads and told me it was completely fine and she deserved it. Guess they were glad I said what they couldn't in such a well.. colorful manner.

In the end, the airline said that when it comes to oil, they do take care of cleaning. So I'll be bringing my bag back soon to get it cleaned up.

After all that, I went to the security check point where Jeff's gates were and hung out till he landed. Grabbed him and went home, and omg, we walked into a frigid house. Dunno what was going on, but our heater is acting up and last night was pretty chilly (got down to 31 degrees. CT was 32...). So Jeff was up half the night trying to figure out what was going on and to kick it on manually so we could have some heat (when the burners actually kicked on).

I have today off, which is awesome, cause I need a day to recover. Plus I gotta hang around and wait for the repairmen to come look at the heater.

Oi...

Journey Home

Christmas has come and gone and the New Year is around the corner! Have to admit, I'm looking forward to this New Year. Originally I was going to go see my cousins in Lecanto, but something came up, so I'll be staying at home, but! I'll be hanging out w/ nifty youtube friends. So that'll be exciting!

This year I flew back home to my parents house up in good ol' East Granby, CT. I flew up on Thursday, the day before Christmas Eve. Got to the house and was practically pounced on by our dog Xandra who was extremely happy to see me. Went to Christmas Eve service at Old St. Andrews, which was really peaceful. I hadn't been to church in about two years.. so it was good to be back. Last year I ended up missing service because of being delayed in Ohio because of a toilet...

Christmas morning rolled around with lots of awesome gifts. I didn't get a large haul, but the stuff I did get is amazing and I'm very thankful. The first major thing that I got for Christmas is a Toshiba Camileo video camera! It's pocket sized and it's awesome. I'm so excited! So chances are you'll be seeing more videos from me soon :)

Next up I got a few rings from my Nana which have been in the family for a while. She's not sure for how long, but she found them one day and thought I'd like them. It pretty much brought me to tears. Up next I got year 4 of the Harry Potter blu-ray editions. Sadly, Years 3 and 4 aren't the extended versions like years 1 and 2 were which is a huge huge disappointment, but whatever. Also got a $50 gift card to Amazon from my best friend, Ellen, checks, and other odds and from the stocking.  The stocking pictured below was my original stocking from when I was younger that my mother gave me to bring home. (which I think I forgot back at the house now that I think about it...as well as the amazon gift card... oops)

                                                              Here's a pic of my loot:

That day, I spoke to Dad about changing my flight so I could stay an extra day. So I got the number, called them up and with in a short amount of time was able to get somebody, which I was impressed about since it was Christmas day. Because my ticket was a rewards ticket, I was able to get my ticket changed free of charge for the next day. Good thing I did that when I did, because Sunday night we got slammed with a blizzard and my original flight for Monday ended up cancelled! If I hadn't done it sooner, I would of been fighting with people to get onto another flight home and probably would of ended up here longer.

Sunday Craig, Dad and I went to Stratton up in VT.

Craig and I

Please excuse the blurry shot. There was a smudge on the camera lense.

Surprisingly I did fairly well since I hadn't gone skiing in the past 2-3 years. It felt really good to get back onto the slops again, even though it was wicked cold!! Needless to say, the next day I really felt it and just couldn't move around at all. Stairs were my enemy. 

Monday I went and hung out with my good friend Dan, whom I've known for about 24 years. After that did a few errands then went out to dinner with Ellen and her father. Yadda yadda, came home, slept, woke up, packed and here I am now, at the airport, waiting to for my flight to Chicago then transfer to Orlando.

Though to back peddle a little bit. Security was interesting. They have those x ray scanners at every check point now from the looks of it, and they wanted me to go through, something I wasn't comfortable with. So I told them I wasn't comfortable with the device and opted for a patdown instead, which wasn't bad. Lesser of two evils I say. It went fairly quick. 

So, now I wait for my plane... *shiver*

Hope ya'll had a wonderful Christmas! What did ya'll get from Santa?

Fresh Start?

Alright, so I really need to be more active with this blog and ontop of that, keep it from getting emo, cause being emo can get lame. So from here on out, no more emo! Save that for LJ (which I haven't touched in like.. 10 months..)

Christmas is around the corner! Which is insane. I'll be flying home to CT to see family for a few days. It'll be nice to see everybody. My brother and I are also planning a day of skiing. Something I haven't done in a long time! I'm fairly excited about that. I'm also getting a brand new video camera (HD!) for Christmas, so expect new videos by the end of December! I actually feel pretty bad about not making any vidoes since about August, but because of work as well as poor equipment, I've just haven't had the motivation. I'm also still trying to figure out what kind of a format I'll have.. Oi. Any suggestions?

Which reminds me, I want to make a HP Fan Film one of these days. I'll have to bug some of my hp buds about that soon.

Work is going pretty well. It's been getting colder down here in Florida, so I've been having to wear thermals, gloves and a beanie.

I've applied for an AdSense account so I can put ads on this blog. I'm hoping it'll go through, cause I would love to have some extra pocket money.

Alright, this post got boring fast.. Hope ya'll are well!