Sitting on Suitcases

Currently 43% packed while watching some Mad Men. It's late Sunday night after a blissful day of the Good Lord, music making, apple cider sipping, fall candle whiffing, blanket snuggling, hot tubbing and alas, suit casing. I leave the country in about 38 hours and I am yet at the point to where I have acknowledged I am sooner than later, picking up my Traveler of the Year Badge.

With traveling comes so many mixed emotions and it's so funny to go through the motions of the human selfishness. "No stop making plans to make pie without me next weekend, you know I'll just cancel my flight to simple ol' Asia." Since October is turning out to be a beautiful weathered month, I can't help but hope when I arrive back it smells just as sweet and crisp, if not sweeter and crisper. I deserve that, dammit.

Already though I've thought about the to dos I will need to DO when I get back. But good news, I have settled my halloween costume, since I would only have two days to prep when I get back. I will disclose when I feel the time is ripe. In addition my student loans kick in soon after I arrive, thus I will use October as a victorious month of booze drinking and gambling/gold mining and horse races. If none of the following exist in the motherland, I shall come up with a plan B.

But for now, I am doing my best to focus on today, present, NOW 2009.

The agenda: Fly heaps of hours from LAX Tuesday at 1:30pm (prayers are insisted and welcome) arrive at Seoul, Korea, then fly to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. I shall keep youz updated with a "About a [Vietnamese] girl," blog. So hopefully I can be faithful to such promises.

K. I. B, keepinblog,

All my American loving,

T