Luggage came @ 9pm Friday

I'm sleeping til noon, which bothers me. Think it's jet lag, and the emotion of losing baggage, etc.



Still haven't bought my first baguette. Beautiful plenty of marvelous shops. I spoke Spanish today at one. Meant to say "deux" and I said "dos".

Ok, here's what happened:

DELTA Tucson - Atlanta = 2 hours late

Missed PARIS Flight by 20 minutes, but via benevolent ticket goddess, I learn what comes with being in a wheelchair: FIRST IN LINE EVERYWHERE!

Delta sucked big time. Hundreds (not kidding) of passengers were lined up at the CS station, lines looped all through the taped lines and down the hall.

Cripples go first. Talk about cutters! I was wheeled straight to the front of the line! After this old chick in a WC.

So I had the brilliant idea (actually, one of my "pushers" told me this great idea) to go to LONDON and over to PARIS. Brilliant! I'd be here at 6:00!

The London flight was delayed 2 hours, WHICH WAY OK BECAUSE I HAD 2 hours to take off for PARIS!!!!!

It's amazing how idiotic anal and asinine planes are. LONDON flight was delayed because of a toilet problem.

But the LONDON-PARIS flight took the prize: we were waiting for a piece of luggage (remember that), there was a "small" maintenance problem, a light bulb blew on the runway.

We took off about 7pm. Called Olivier my landlord that I'd be there as soon as I got my luggage and contacted Paris Blue shuttle.

You've already guessed, right? Yeah, they lost my luggage.

Or rather it took the flight I turned down, a night at a hotel and the same flight I missed. I was already in London by the time my luggage took the later flight.

I wanted to run screaming to the ticket counter to go "home" which is a storage locker in Tucson. Damn! I was off my meds too!

Here's why:

The luggage was found, Air France would deliver it, I got 100. euros to spend on new clothes (I don't even had underwear) AND

AND

AND

The Paris Blue shuttle came at 10pm (or sometime after) and I was treated to the MOST AMAZING and DARING drive down the cobbled streets of PARIS, harepin turns, nimble pedestrians... it was fabulous! ALL IN THE DARK!

It's a flicking beautiful city. Colors are more themselves and then some. Blue lights reverberate. Every store has huge windows, walls of windows instead of brick and mortar.

What a fab place!!!!

I leave tomorrow

Totally excited. The only things I have to do are: charge the Kindle, cell, iPod and anything else that needs a charge.

Wash my hair.

Get a good night's sleep, but not too much. I should be tired by the time I get on the plane to Paris.



Snow outside Paris. Not today. Totally excited!

Snow in Paris next week!

My landlord just emailed.

I not only have no winter coat or boots.

I do have a scarf and hat.

Let's go!

Here I comes

Lists no longer matter. I leave with not enough medication, not enough tonnage lost and as usual, no clue. Let's do this thing!

Fer Realz

I need to call the cab co to make arrangements for the band to pick up my boxes to take to the storage locker.

I need to call the storage co.

I need to dye my hair.

I need to finish packing.

#1 I need to go to the Urgant Care & get script for emergency inhaler & 1 of my 3 HBP meds.

I've done none of them. I leave in one week. WHAT WILL MOTIVATE ME????



Hmmmmmm

Eiffel Bunny