Do you know the song, "I'm going on a trip with my Auntie Nell"?
The first verse begins: "I'm going on a trip with my Auntie Nell and I'm wondering what to pack. We plan to climb Mount Everest with a team of twenty yak. If they stampede I'm sure to need a warm, woolly hat. So I will pack a warm woolly hat."
Each verse adds something more to the trip (after all there is the Serengeti Plain to cross after Mount Everest is conquered): fuzzy dice to hang from the mirror, rubber boots, etc.
I am a light packer until it comes to my "projects to do, books to read" bag. Then? Well, then it's like I'm going on a trip with Auntie Nell and I way over pack. But not this time. I cut waaaayyyy back. I didn't even pack carrot sticks.
Calvin and I left early, early, early this morning for a road trip. Six things I look forward to on the road:
~audio books (we're listening to one on constitutional law that's pretty interesting)
~the food (grape propel drink, corn nuts, m&m's, sausage mcmuffins, restaurant suppers)
~stopping at Purdum's Fruit and Vegetable stand (it's got a beautiful squash, pumpkin line-up)
~visiting with Calvin about random or important things (or not. even the silence is good)
~wondering where all the other drivers are going and why
~having plenty of foot room because my bag is so empty
On a side note: I've been out of perfume for a couple of months. I got some yesterday (deep breath and sigh). I have missed my signature smell and am glad I don't have to leave home without it. Red Door is my smell, what's yours?
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Woohoo. Your blog is so popular I never get the first comment, but being on the east coast has its perks--time difference is one. I have been up for hours already. :-)
Have fun on your trip. I love abercrombie's rose smelling one (I forget the name). But I also wear women's coolwater.
:-)
Where are you going?
Bridget
I have never heard that song before.
I tend to over pack, which is funny because I don't feel like I have a lot of clothes. But when we went on our long trip to Illinois and Michigan this summer I did my best packing ever.
Have a fun trip!
Hooray for road tripping! We're still in recovery mode from ours.
I rarely wear perfume. It seems to fade so fast on me, it's not really worth it.
I ALWAYS over pack my projects bag! ALWAYS! Alas, I NEVER get much done in that area! UGH!
You forgot to leave the fishing poles and water bottles! (those are some of the other items in the song.)
I wear angel. Not that I am one. But I try.
I miss having a signature smell. I used to have one and then Carmen stole my perfume one time too many and Ken told me I can't wear it any more since it reminds him of his daughter.
I can't believe it...MINE IS RED DOOR TOO!!! One day a man came up to me in a store and said "I love your perfume, I want to buy it for my wife. What kind is it?" Nicole was about 4 years old. She said with all the fortitude of a child "It is 'MOMMY PERFUME', all Mommy's wear it". It has been a family joke every since. I still wear RED DOOR. I know Kim is buying me new perfume for my B-day this week...wonder what it will be and if Nicole can handle a change?!? :)
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