stimulating the economy.

our first day in america and what do we do?  shop!  i’m feeling like myself again…except for hitting a wall at about 1pm and wanting to crawl inbetween the clothes racks and nap.  in the country for less than 24 hours and i already have 5 new dresses, a few new tops, 2 new pairs of pajamas, and 5 new pairs of shoes.  The brit is proud that i’m showing some restraint compared to last year.  i told him that i’m just getting warmed up.  i already told my mother that i’ll need to borrow another suitcase for the trip home.

it’s 4.45pm now and i want to go to bed but i’m going to try to stay up another few hours. it’s hot here too and i’m not used to it.  it’s weird to be able to go out in a dress and flip flops when all i seem to do in australia lately is put on layer upon layer of clothing to stay warm. 

i haven’t heard anything about my job yet, not like i expected to yet…it’s only monday morning in oz.  i made the mistake of telling my parents about the job so now every time my parents see me on the computer, they ask me if my boss emailed me yet.  doesn’t help the nervousness. 

time for a nap.  for the rest of the week,  i’m going to show the Brit all the great shopping there is to do in michigan.  at the rate i’m going, i’ll need to borrow more than one suitcase.

i hate airports.

the brit and i finally made it to america.  i am sitting at my parents’ home after a marathon day of traveling.  i’m so over it all.  we got started at 5am, saturday in melbourne.  we finally touched down in michigan at midday sunday australia time.  long f*cking day and i was so over it.  i was over travelling as soon as we got to LA and i knew we still had still so long to go.  i wanted to cry.  i wanted to slit my wrists with the plastic forks that came with my airplane “food.”  when we got to salt lake city,  i found a row of seats at the airport that didn’t have arm rests so i was able to lie down and sleep for an hour.  that saved my sanity.  now i’ve slept for 12 hours,  ate real breakfast and am trying to become normal again.  i think shopping is in order.