I’m sitting here on a plane full of people & yet I still feel so alone because my people are not here w/ me. The silence is scary. The lack of stimulating conversation w/ my husband, the quite and absence of bickering and whining, and mommy this mommy that seems like a form of ancient Chinese torture you read about in history class. Already I have decided I like the chaos. On my way here I was full of anxiety and nerves. Second questioning my choice to leave my family for 3 whole days especially since Zion is sick, Michael is sick and Elias on the way to the airport started hacking up a lung. There were more things in me then not that were saying turn around, go back home this trip is silly. At the same time I know I had to at least try once to be away from them even though it seems like an eternity already.

The engines are revving up, there is an annoying woman behind me yacking on her phone complaining how cold it is on the plane, on Alaska airlines wearing a tank top no doubt.

There is an Asian woman speaking native tongue yelling at her husband about the right way to store her overhead luggage.

The overhead voice is giving us direction for take off…now see if I had a laptop this is where I’d have to stop my entry…instead I’m old schoolin’ it right now and busted out the composition book and I’m rockin a clicky BIC. I will be transferring this to computer when I get back home. So if your reading this then I am back woo hoo.

Uh oh…this broad behind me just coughed…SWINE FLU…ok perhaps not but anyhow…I have my trusty MD in the seat next to me…6:55 am and almost finished my 20 fl oz of Dew this is going to be a caffeine fueled 3 days.

Sitting back in my seat looking straigh ahead…OMG 3 whole days… I miss my family already. I want to go home and crawl back in my bed, snuggle next to my babe and plan the events for the weekend.

Damn It! Why do I hear a yapping dog? ARE YOU SERIOUS? I can’t even escape the yapping on a commercial airline? DAMN IT MAN. I should have taken out my camera from my carry on for in flight photos…hell I shoulda did a vlog……hand cramp ….. BRB

Not sure where we are now but this is my view…I am going to take a break, this BIC pen writing is cramping my hand up…time to watch my in flight entertainment on my digeplayer…see below.

………….movie over…..500 days of summer was a pretty interesting movie…I enjoyed it. Oh so pretty looky where we are now…

We are officially over the Rockies.

Now its time for me to watch another movie…and this one will beeeeeeeeee…. Ice Age 2, Dawn of the Dinosaurs. Yes people it’s been established I miss my family…Don’t Judge Me!

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Yes it has gotten to the point where Michael and I have joined a multiracial/cultural group on meetup.com. Ya know where folks find other local people with similar interest…I personally think its a great idea and I am glad we are a part of such a great group. Tonight we had dinner at Don Pablos and met a few new couples and they all were pretty awesome people. We have a great time and the kids got along and were very well behaved mind you.

I am just sitting here realizing that it has come to setting up grown up play dates for us to get out and meet other like minded couples with similar interests. We work so many hours and stay so busy that meetup groups like this are the only way we will ever get a chance to meet new families at this point. I am by no means complaining but rather putting it all into perspective and realizing how ingenious of an idea the whole meetup.com concept really is.  Thank God for outlets like it, because w/out it we would continue down our work work work path and miss out on making more friends along the way. I hope to gain lasting friendships out of these encounters, and it always helps when ya have similar interests.

Thank you meetup.com for allowing a way for diverse workaholic families such as ours meet up with other diverse families in our area. Without you we would not even known so many mixed families existed so close to us. I enjoy the future possibilities of more grown up play dates.

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