Sleepwalking And Other Adventures

So last night before bed, I put all the ingredients to make bread, in my bread maker, and set the timer to begin at 3am.  When I woke up this morning, I thought…it doesn’t smell quite like bread baking...and was surprised to see a weird lumpy, semi-warm  rock of bread ingredients in front of me.  Its not that it hadn’t been cooked…its just that it seemed to be not quite done….but the machine was turned off.  Strange. 

I left there and went in the bathroom to start showering...and I saw the Listerine on the counter.  It was then that it all began coming back to me.  I don’t remember actually turning off the bread maker, but I do remember, coming out of the kitchen, and walking past the bathroom, and thinking…I’m going to rinse my mouth out with Listerine before I go back to bed.  Apparently I was having some mid-night wanderings around the house.  In fact, now as I sit here typing, I remember also being up at 11pm and thinking it was morning…hum….I wonder what on earth I was up to last night.

I have been extremely overtired lately.  After our trio out East, I’ve just been exhausted. It might have something to do with our flight back.

I hardly slept on Monday night.  I’m not sure why except maybe I was excited to go home.  Maybe it was because my ears hurt.  My ears hurt because I was at my Dad & Paula’s house, and because there’s not much room, Troy & I were sharing a room with my brother Josh and his wife Becca.  Both Troy & Josh snore, so I was having a hard time sleeping.  Paula gave me some disposable ear plugs to use…but they hurt my ears.  I did use them however for several nights, which brings me again to Monday night, when my ears were hurting, so I didn’t put them in.  ALSO, the rest of my siblings went in to New York City on Monday night, so I was anticipating Josh & Becca coming in at any time.  Regardless, I didn’t sleep. Maybe 20 minutes all night.

We got to the JFK airport at 6am(4am Calgary time).  Looked around for where we were supposed to check in for about 5 minutes and then got into an incredibly LARGE line.  I’m thinking at least 200 people were in front of us.  For 20 minutes, we didn’t move. The line was INCREDIBLY slow, and we started to worry thinking…our flight is in 1 hour and 15 minutes.  They called up the folks who were flying to Vancouver.  I figured that we shouldn’t worry because if our flight time got near, they would likely call us up to the front in the same way. We finally got to the front of the line at about 7:30am (our flight was scheduled for 7:45am).  It took us probably 10 minutes to figure out the silly touch-screen sign in (which is why it took everyone else so long), and finally we were finished.  A gentlemen came to put the baggage tags on our luggage, and that’s when he told us our flight had been delayed until 10:30am.  I was not impressed.  Then he proceeded to say, “Where is your 4^th bag?”  we told him we’d loaded all our 4 bags onto the scale, and he’d taken all of them.  “Oh….I must have forgotten to tag one of your bags.”  Lovely.

While the dude ran down to luggage-land to find our untagged bag, Troy & I made it through the line at security, and found the food court where we found ourselves some breakfast.  I was exhausted, and we were both a bit cranky with the situation. We sat around for a couple of hours, trying to sleep, and pass the time…but of course we couldn’t sleep.  Our gate number was not up on any of the screens anywhere, so we weren’t even sure where we were supposed to be, so I sent Troy to find out.  It was in a different section of the airport.  We collected our things and walked over there.

There were not many seats left, but we found some directly across from the “Hudsen News Stand”.  The lady who was in charge of the store, would not stop humming. When you are tired, and cranky and waiting for a delayed flight, I don’t recommend sitting near a lady who can not hum on tune…and who will not stop. I tried to get her to stop by humming louder than her.  It didn’t work.  Oh well.

At 10:45 the dude came on  the intercom and said there were some electrical problems and to sit tight, we’d be underway as soon as possible.  At 12:00pm, we boarded the plane.  Once everyone was boarded, the captain came over the intercom and said they continued to have electrical problems and so would turn off the power for 30 seconds, so not to be alarmed.  20 minutes later, the power was turned back on, and 40 minutes later, we were on our way.

When we’d gotten into the air, the captain came on the intercom again, to tell us the details of the flight and all that jazz.  He also told us the flight attendants would soon be around to offer food for purchase, and drinks.

½ an hour later, still no food or drinks, but the Pilot came on again, and said the restrooms were not flushing, so they were unavailable.  If you needed to go to the bathroom, you could hold it, or pee your pants.  (he didn’t say that part, but you know that’s what he wanted to say).  ½ an hour later the flight attendants started to come around with food.  FINALLY.

About ½ hour later, the Pilot came over the intercom again, to say the washrooms had not been fixed, but people could use the bathroom if they didn’t flush the toilets.  The flight attendants would flush the toilets as necessary.  Hmmmm…He said if it became a health and safety issue they would land the plane in Winnipeg in about 1 ½ hours. 

I ended up having to use the bathrooms several hours into the flight, and luckily for me, the flight attendant flushed right before me.  He told me he was flushing, every 5 users.  How freaking nasty is that????

We finally reached Calgary at about 4pm Calgary time, (6pm NY time), and made it through customs FINALLY.  We arrived home at 5pm. 

IF YOU ARE FLYING AIR CANADA, YOU FLY AT YOUR OWN RISK!  I hate that company. 

Anyways, that’s my rant.  This is super long, so I should go.  I’ll post some photo’s when I’m home as can’t do that from work.

 

S