Saturday, March 18, 2006
Off we go
Did anyone wonder why I was quiet for a few days? I was preparing for my visit to the family. The stress of leaving the businesses and the dog was building up but on top of that what presents to take for everyone was driving me to insanity.
It will sound silly to you that gifts should take up so much of your energy but when you love someone you want to share all the things you enjoy and the airlines have weight restrictions. When I left my family years ago the technology was not so advanced. Making a call on the telephone was a major task. I didn’t see them for years because of many reasons including financial affordability. I have seen mum almost every two to three years in the last decade but I had hardly seen my dad when he was well. Only time I saw him was he was terminally ill.
Even when I was younger I used to save things for my brother and sister if they weren’t with me – be it toffees or toys. Now I feel that I am better off than they are and I want to give them the things they probably cannot afford. So here I am on the airport with two largest suitcases one could find, two hand luggage, a handbag and a wheelchair that Sickie insisted he wasn’t going to use. Everything has gone well except being frisked! We enter the security checks and as I pass the gate the alarms go off. The nice security man wanted to examine my handbag. He checked it some kind of metal thin rod with a square little cloth on the top end. It kept going off. I had to empty all the contents and have them checked individually. They all kept going off. It was never established what was causing them to go off. I suggested it was my magnetism but they said it must be some kind of chemical like a hair spray (which I do not use!).
So off we go to another planet…….well that’s how it feels. You all be good and behave. Keep me in your address book and do visit me.
It will sound silly to you that gifts should take up so much of your energy but when you love someone you want to share all the things you enjoy and the airlines have weight restrictions. When I left my family years ago the technology was not so advanced. Making a call on the telephone was a major task. I didn’t see them for years because of many reasons including financial affordability. I have seen mum almost every two to three years in the last decade but I had hardly seen my dad when he was well. Only time I saw him was he was terminally ill.
Even when I was younger I used to save things for my brother and sister if they weren’t with me – be it toffees or toys. Now I feel that I am better off than they are and I want to give them the things they probably cannot afford. So here I am on the airport with two largest suitcases one could find, two hand luggage, a handbag and a wheelchair that Sickie insisted he wasn’t going to use. Everything has gone well except being frisked! We enter the security checks and as I pass the gate the alarms go off. The nice security man wanted to examine my handbag. He checked it some kind of metal thin rod with a square little cloth on the top end. It kept going off. I had to empty all the contents and have them checked individually. They all kept going off. It was never established what was causing them to go off. I suggested it was my magnetism but they said it must be some kind of chemical like a hair spray (which I do not use!).
So off we go to another planet…….well that’s how it feels. You all be good and behave. Keep me in your address book and do visit me.
# posted by butterflyuk : 3/18/2006 11:31:00 am
