Oklahoma has been fun, although not as fun as traveling without the boss would be, in the flirting department. But never one to be discouraged I did my fair share of entertaining those around me. I did end up sitting next to a stranger and you all know that means she is a stranger NO MORE!
But I was considerate…I didn’t completely monopolize her time away from her book on Narcissists! I was giving her examples of all the narcissists in my family (she was on her way to a family reunion…hence the book!) while trying to tone down the Me, Me, Me little person yelling in my head.
She laughed a lot so I have no guilt!
But that day was a parody of bad timing on my part and odd luck. The whole trip seems to have been that. I managed a morning blog before hitting the road to get some work in before we drove to the airport…so I was a little late. In juggling what I needed to get done (a few orders that had to go out and credit cards to process) I managed to forget a few things in the packing. But I instinctively brought some extra things to do (I always overachieve when it comes to piling onto my workload).
So we are a little behind schedule in getting to the airport but my “it is what it is” attitude breezes me through and somehow the boss doesn’t get upset either (she must be mellowing). Then while waiting in the luggage scanner line we are having a discussion over whether she thinks the 4 diet drinks I stuck in the overhead bag is going to pass through or not. She swears they’ll throw it out. I say, “lets ask” because I don’t want to delay us, but she says, “Nay, let them do it.”
And it passes through! I am so stoked that I can stick to my diet! But then we check into the Embassy Suites – which is the best hotel on the planet – and I wish I could use them in Cat’s books…but they don’t have a full kitchen. And they have a free delicious breakfast every morning, with omelets, and 2 glasses of free wine (yuck…where’s my Baileys) with $2.00 a la carte side dishes, like buffalo wings & Quesadillas. So that was my unhealthy dinner and too much food breakfast…but I made up for it with a drink for lunches.
Then I forget my power cord to my laptop and use up all my juice on the plane writing blogs to upload nice and easy…but now can’t because they’re on the OTHER computer…because I had to use the Boss’s to pay for the online access…because I had no juice. So you’re getting this made up one.
But wonderful Embassy Suites (in Norman, Oklahoma) when I caught the eye of one of the staff and explained if they could help…he called Travis in tech support and he brought down 3 HP power cords to see if any would work. Well…my lap is a bit of a dinosaur so no luck there. But then he called around until he found it at Best Buy, quoted me the price and had the hotel drive me over there to buy it!
Now that is service…and I wasn’t even channelling Cat! The OK boys don’t really know what to make of her…trust me, I can tell by the looks I get. And yes, ya’ll, I’m dressing hot…I always do when I travel. I wonder if the OK boys would act different if I wasn’t wearing the wedding band. The L.A. guys love the wedding band…all the married men love Cat!
Oh and the best news of the day…I think I’m finally starting to like what I see naked in the mirror!
Yes, I can go on and on but I have to get up at 4:00 am here (which is 2 o’clock in the FUCKING morning Los Angeles time) to be ready for the 4:30 pick up to get to the airport by 6:00 am.
But one last thing. Oklahoma is sooooo flat that when the sun came up at 5:45 am (Shit Boss really?) it was the most incredible sight. It blobbed up the horizon deep red/orange and looked almost like a sunset on the beach. You don’t realize it guys, but on the west coast…we don’t get sunrises. And I got a little lucky getting to see Oklahoma’s. (Of course the last time I was in Oklahoma [Tulsa] I was too busy sleeping in after a night of sex to catch any sunrises!)