So right now it’s 7:07, and I’m sitting at my gate in the Birmingham airport waiting for a flight to New Orleans.
My flight leaves at 8:20, by the way. And I’ve been sitting here for about ten minutes. Which means that I arrived at my gate a full hour and twenty minutes before departure, or in other words: JUST LIKE I LIKE IT.
I have a thing about being rushed when I fly, and that thing is that I HATE IT. My husband, on the other hand, would be totally fine with wheeling into the parking garage 15 minutes before a flight and then having to jump on some high-speed golf cart in order to make it to the gate and then sprint down the jetway and then fall into his seat seconds before the plane’s door closes so that he could look at me, smile and say, “See? We made it!”
And then I wouldn’t say anything in return because if I did say something? WHITE-HOT FLAMES WOULD SHOOT OUT OF MY MOUTH.
Anyway. I’m here. And I keep looking over at the newstand because it’s not open yet and I need for it to be open because I don’t know how I can possibly read an Us Weekly on the plane if they don’t open that newstand gate and sell me one.
(I also see on the CNN Headline News that it’s Eddie Murphy’s birthday today.)
(HAPPY BIRTHDAY, EDDIE!)
By the way, the newstand just opened. One moment, please.
Okay. I bought an Us Weekly (“Reese’s Big Decision: HE’S THE ONE!”) and a Southern Living (“Celebrate with Our Best Easter Menu EVER!”). I’m in the process of making up with Southern Living, in case you were wondering, because I’ve decided that I simply cannot live without the recipes. And the photography. And the stories about the South. And I actually subscribed again a couple of weeks ago because we got a great offer in the mail and quite frankly my coffee table has been very, very lonely without the latest issues of SL to keep it company. I won’t get my first issue for about six weeks (hence the buying of the latest issue in the airport), but I imagine that when I go to my mailbox and pull out that first issue, the angels will sing and Peaches & Herb will play softly in the background.
Or maybe, you know, I’ll just pull the issue out of the mailbox and a someone will drive by and honk their horn really loud. There’s just no way of telling. But I much prefer the former scenario to the latter.
Happy weekend, y’all.
Kind of drives me crazy the way some people can sail in 2 minutes before their appointment and feel they are “on time.” I, on the other hand, must be AT LEAST 20 minutes early to be on time. Even more annoying are those people who are always late. You know they are going to be late, and they do nothing to change. It’s their lifestyle. Lateness is their “on time.” I guess it’s a teacher thing.
You sound just like me at the airport, I prefer plenty of time to get there before the plane is scheduled to leave. I hate rushing to the airport. And I must have new mags to load with.
MUST. HAVE.
Hope your trip is great fun.
Have a great trip!!
I just commented on Mel’s blog, too. Have fun in NOLA. Eat at Emeril’s and sit at the counter overlooking the kitchen. It’s fun.
Have fun. I love that city! So much great history. Seems like I was just there a few weeks ago for the Breaking Free taping. What a BLESSING that was!
Welcome to Louisiana! I hate I’m not going to be in N.O. this weekend, but I’m helping host the one and only Franklin Parish Catfish Festival way up here in North Louisiana Saturday! Have a wonderful time!
We are a perfect pair. I bought the new People with “Melissa’s Revenge” on the cover. We can trade magazines we when we get to the hotel.
enjoy N.O.!
i have to say i’m somewhere between you and your hubby on the airport timeliness issue…and i’ve only missed ONE flight…oops!
Have a great time, B-Mama. Eat some red beans and rice for me.
I love it when I open my mailbox, but mine curiously plays Don’t Stop Believin’
perhaps because I am always hopeful that I will get some mail that does not involve me paying someone!
love this blog :D
Have a great time! I’m gonna try not to be envious of the thought of you and Big Mama sitting under Beth’s teaching this weekend. I doubt I’ll be very successful…..
Do you know Garden & Gun magazine? (No, seriously, that’s its name.) I’m not trying to take anything away from you and SL’s special reunited time, but it is great. This issue has an article about boudin.
Oh I’m so glad you have come back to southern living. It’s too much apart of who i am to ever give it up!!!
It is a good day when you can make a Peaches & Herb reference.
I do hope and pray y’all have a delightful time in NOLA. Have some beignets for me. (:
Just for you and your SL magazine… Sing along if you wish.
Ahem.
“Reunited and it feels so good. Reunited cause we understood, there’s one perfect fit and sugar this one is it. We both are so excited cause we’re reunited… Hey hey.”
You’re welcome.
I want a full recap of that Southern Living Easter meal.
OH, you, too, Sophie!! Have a wonderful time!! I am praying for it to fill you to overflow with fun and laughter and joy in Jesus.
Also? Have some cajun food for me…I miss it. A bunch.
Much Love from CO,
Holly
I’m off to see Beth in NO today as well. Can’t wait to see what God has in store for us all!
Trying not to be jealous, just read Beth’s post about people watching in the airport and then yours and then, well you know, sadness. Have a blessed time, fill up on the Word and share it with us.
Love and Blessings, Debbie in Tennessee
I’m with you: I hate to be late in regards to flying. In fact, if I arrive 20 min early, it feels like I’ve just barely made it. Too much adrenaline and I get all freaky.
Oh how much fun! I wish I could go! You all are going to have a ball! I just love how God worked it all out for you all to travel and blog for Lifeway… such a gift! Especially for us! How fun that we can read about all these events through yours and Melanie’s eyes! You all are so good at communicating… so funny… so real… you all are a blessing! Have an awesome trip… will be praying for your weekend! Emmy : )
We should not travel together. Ever. WHY are you there so early? Go home, be with your family, have another cup of coffee…
and have a great trip! (cough freak cough)
I wondered if you and SL had spoken since the break up. Or if you just stared longingly at each other when you passed in the hall on the way to your lockers.
Have fun in New Orleans!
Christy Nockels sang backup for Chris Tomlin last night in Charlotte!!!! Is it weird that I thought of you? Yes it is! She sang her new single and it was awesome! Such a great time of praise and worship.
Oh I love getting new magazines when I travel!!! And US Weekly is a MUST for traveling!!!
But how I miss the “old” SL. And how I regret that the new young brides don’t know what they are a-missin’.
Wow. A Peaches & Herb reference….that really dates you (and me)!!! :) Have a great time in NOLA!
Oh I love a good magazine when I travel! Enjoy your trip!
I am so jealous. Or is that covetness?
Last weekend you held AnnaBeth and now you are going to see her Grandma in Houston!
I just can’t take it any longer!!!!
NO wait that was M, not you. Sorry just pass the message on to your roomie. Hope to catch the two of you in Memphis later this year.
“Reunited and it feels so good…” :) Hope you have a great trip!
I am SO the opposite on flights. I’ve talked my way onto a flight out of Dulles after the gate had closed, burst into tears to get the head of security at Heathrow terminal 4 to let me through when he was being difficult, and never once missed a flight.
It’s a bad habit, but so far I haven’t had to learn a lesson from it, so of course I keep doing it.
“White-hot flames,” MY WORD.
I am LIZZING.
I’m like you, and my husband is like David….true story: on our honeymoon we literally had to RUN to catch our plane home because he took a sweet forever to take back the rental car while I stood on the curb with our bags, worrying and stressing. We really BARELY made it…one of those golf carts would have come in handy. On the other hand, getting “stranded” in Hawaii wouldn’t have been all bad…
Hope you have a wonderful weekend!!! :o)
Don’t you love it when you can access the internet from an airport!! I don’t know what I did with myself before that!
Have you see “Garden & Gun” magazine? It is a well written southern magazine for folks like us. No lie.
There is NOTHING worse than being late for a flight. Glad you were timely :)
Hey, just so you know? Peaches sings at my church sometimes. She has an amazing voice-still!- so if you hear her out of the mailbox? Tell her I said hi, ok?
Thanks to you I’ll be singing “Reunited” until I can finally make myself go to bed. My mom used to love that song!
Great now you got me all hungry like… time to go whip up something in the kitchen before I am tempted to lick the computer screen ;).