Every post shall be accompanied by a picture of my favorite rum-soaked, dread-locked, drop dead gorgeous swaggering pirate. In addition, I shall include one of the many of my favorite Captain Jack quotes, in no particular order, from the three films.
Why?
Because it's my pre trip report and I can.
And also, because given that 44 seconds of footage, and the news of the Fantasyland expansion, I am super pumped for this trip and I just want to do something fun every day until we leave. So even if I can't do a full on post, I'll still post the picture and the quote.
And you may all feel free to drool. Perhaps keep a spare towel by the keyboards so I don't get blamed for having fried your computers. You have been forewarned.
"Son, I'm Captain Jack Sparrow. Savvy?"
I'll give you all a moment.
Now, on to official pre trip report business.
I love my hair.
I really couldn't stop looking at it last night, running my fingers through it, the whole deal. The trip to salon was well worth it. She spent over an hour cutting my hair and styling it, and we discussed what she was doing, what products to use to achieve the same look. Honestly, even though expensive, it was totally worth it. You just can't beat that kind of service and that kind of quality, you really can't.
Anyway, the big kicker will be if I can style it myself at home. I'll let you all know how that goes later today. I do have to say, because it's so much shorter, I think it's going to take me even less time in the morning once I get the hang of it, and that's a huge plus. Anything that looks cute, like a real style, and doesn't take me time in the morning, well heck, sign me up!
That and the fact that I've wanted this style for so long and never had the guts until now, well it just feels like an affirmation. In the words of Mia in the Princess Diaries (books, not film), perhaps I am on my way to self-actualization after all.
Now there has been some talk on the boards on different threads lately of various books. When I took DS to the library, suffice it to say I cleaned out their Disney travel section.
(Yes those are some Meg Cabot books on the bottom.)
It's not my intent to necessarily read all of these from cover to cover. Just to see if there are any intersting tidbits, things I don't know, little thoughts I could possibly discover. Really, just to see if there's something different that might be fun that I've never thought of.
I also have Realityland coming from interlibrary loan, so I'm really looking forward to reading that as well. And they didn't have a Birnbaum's guide (why ever not???) so I'll be requesting that as well.
Today I'm doing a few trip related things. I'm going to be ordering pieces of the costumes for my mom and DS so that DH and I can start making them before we're in crunch time. I'm going to sit down with DS and watch the new planning DVD. I haven't done that yet.
I've also been on this quest lately to streamline everything, and that includes our apartment. Room by room, I've slowly been dismantling, decluttering, and reassembling. It's cathartic.
Today, I'll be working on the bathroom (and my bedroom if I have time), which will lend itself to taking a look at our travel toiletries and seeing if we need any items to be replenished before we leave.
That's not too bad of a to do list, I think.
Of course, my excitement factor is increasing rapidly. The closer we get to this trip, the more excited I get. And not because I think I'll do any particular thing or see any particular thing because this is the first trip that I'm really, really learning to let a lot of things go. It's very hard for me, because it's in my nature to try to plan, but it's also in my nature to want not to plan.
Ask me about how all my paintings in art school were based on the duality of mankind and my own personal struggles with it in addition to observing others' struggles with it. That's a story for another time.
For now, we will put that philosophical dilemma on the back burner and focus on the task at head.
V-A-C-A-T-I-O-N.
That spells relaxation, you know.
I'm trying to hold out until after the princess marathon in March either way. If I go I'm determined to wear a Belleish offit and need to have a nice pony tail going.
