hello everyone, i am home. HOME home. NORCAL home. FREMONT home. HOME home. and boy was it one crazy adventure trying to get here.

okay, so first off, i set the metal detector off at the san diego airport. so they take me aside, sit me down, and tell me to take off my boots. before that, i had already taken off my coat and scarf. so, whatever, i take off my boots and they make me stick each of my legs up to pass that metal detector wand over them. then i stand up and the lady goes over my whole body. that last sentence almost sounds dirty, but it's not. and of course, EVERYTHING on my body just happened to set off the wand. my watch, the brass buttons, the barrettes on my head, and my bra. yes, my bra. my bra set off the metal detector. no, i am not wearing some weird metal bra - it was the underwire that set it off. i was just like, please do not make me take off my bra. and the lady actually patted me on my boobs too!! well, slightly below them. but still! my god!! well, okay, i wasn't that offended, it was just to be safe, i know. i actually found the whole thing slightly amusing.

what i did NOT find amusing was losing my luggage. anyone remember the thanksgiving luggage fiasco last year? where i accidentally sent my luggage ahead of me by two hours? well now, my luggage is coming AFTER me. what IS IT with me and luggage during the thanksgiving season? i just don't get it. anyway, i got off the flight from la to san jose and waited and waited and waited at the baggage carousel for my bag and it just never came. so i went to baggage service where they told me that my bag was STILL IN LOS FREAKING ANGELES. apparently someone had somehow forgotten to put it on the plane to san jose which is weird because amanda got her luggage but it's not that weird because i wasn't the only one on the flight who had lost my luggage. anyway. so they told me that the next flight from la was coming in at 530 and that they would deliver my bag to my house. which, it's 614 right now and it is not here. but then again, there's a lot of traffic, so... yeah. just...WHY GOD?!? WHY?!?!! is it because i worship satan and make ritual animal sacrifices that you punish me so?!?

and on top of all that, i've got a zit on my forehead, right between my eyebrows. it totally wasn't there this morning. so somehow on my way to san jose from san diego, i developed this ugly monstrous thing. which is actually sort of funny because the same thing happened to amanda. gotta be something about the airplanes.

anyway, i'm going to call the airline now because i'm starting to get scary panicky visions of myself wearing this outfit four days in a row.