Readers -- I've got readers!

Much props to Crazy Aunt Purl who let me know that Blogger's default is to only allow comments by registered blogger people. How lame! I just thought I was babbling to no one but SF Knitter all this time. (and we *will* attempt an SnB when I get back from my trip and you are done unpacking 1 billion moving boxes)

Our cat sitter came over yesterday for instructions, so I feel a little better about leaving, but it is still hard. I'm excited for the trip, but I know that my little furry babies will be looking around the house for me.

Well, so we did not win the Mega Millions lotto this week. I almost don't know if I would want to win this close to our trip. I wouldn't be done freaking out before we left! We bought tickets on Sunday and then discussed what we would do with the money (which is why I waste the $1 in the first place). My fantasies run along the lines of: "Pay someone $5000 a year to take our garbage cans out to the street." and "Buy vacation homes in New Orleans and Italy that our friends can use whenever they want."

Mr. CTK goes off about how he'd like to donate a bunch of money to improve the Oakland school district. OK, now I feel lame. I'm paying someone to take out the garbage, and he's fixing education for children. He is a much better person than I. I said that we could adopt a kindergarten class and promise to pay for college for any of them that want to go, which is nice, but of course only popped into my mind once Mr. CTK shamed me with his far more altruistic money fantasies. :)

I am getting a little stir crazy having no job. My big plans for today are getting my eyebrows waxed and depositing some rebate checks at the bank. Woo hoo. I have semi-purposely been stretching out my errands to give myself something to do. Yesterday the excitement involved buying potting soil and some jelly bellies to eat on the plane. I did watch "Fellowship of the Ring" the other day, so I can watch the other two movies today and tomorrow, which kills about 8 hours, since I have the extra nerdy extended DVD versions. Oh yeah, I have an episode of "Lost" and one of "Sex and the City" on TiVo to watch. Ah, variety, the spice of life.

I understand why rich people with no jobs shop all of the time -- it kills the hours in the day that would otherwise be spent lying on the couch channel surfing.

And, of course, blog reading -- hooray for blogs because they can suck a lot of time in the day.

Sunday (when we leave) is the 8-year anniversary of our first date. Hmmm, Mile High Club? I think I would be too paranoid about getting caught by the flight attendant and getting disapproving stares (though I'm sure they've seen it all). And we'd probably get the same flight attendants on the way home, and they'd refuse us extra water and cheese and crackers because we'd been so naughty.

OK, and how's this for awful? We leave Hanoi at 11:30pm, arrived Seoul at 5:30AM(!) and then don't leave for SFO until 6:00pm at night. So we will have approximately 12 HOURS to kill, coming off of a red eye flight. Ugh! I need to do some research today to see if there is a quick sightseeing jaunt that we could make w/out visas and such to use up some time.