I’ve mentioned before that I’ll be traveling for a good bit of time coming up shortly. I thought I’d share my travel itinerary with you so you can appreciate with me the full scope of my travel and why I think I might need Twitter
July 23rd: leave for family reunion in North Dakota. Fly in to Minneapolis and drive to Fargo to pick up my brother.
July 24th-27th: family reunion. Drive back to Minneapolis for the night of 27th.
July 28th: Fly to San Francisco (Josh and Brianna will fly the opposite direction back home and I won’t see them again for 8 days)
July 28th-August 3rd: San Francisco, RWA Nationals
August 3rd-August 5th: Nashville, Ingrams Sales Meeting
August 5th: Home! Yay!
August 11th: Leave for New Zealand. This is how my trip goes: drive to Baltimore, fly to Atlanta, fly to Los Angeles (look, Ma! Cross country twice in a week. Groovy.) and then to Auckland, New Zealand, arriving over 24 hours after I began my trip. Whee!
August 13th-18th: Auckland, New Zealand for their romance writer’s conference
August 18th-20th: Brisbane, Australia (where we’ll be visiting with Rosemary of Rosemary’s Romance Books)
August 20th-25th: Melbourne, Australia for their romance writer’s conference.
August 25th: My birthday! Yes, I am traveling on my birthday. Maybe the flight attendants will bake me a cake 
We do the reverse trip: Melbourne, to Auckland, to LA to Atlanta. I’m staying in Atlanta overnight.
August 26th: Home. Yayyyy!
But wait, lest you think I was really going to STAY home, Josh and I are talking about going to New York City for the weekend of August 30th-31st, to see Rent, which closes September 7th (which happens to be our anniversary). Since I’ll have missed his birthday (on August 18th) and mine, this seems like a good way to celebrate. Even if it does mean more traveling. At least it’s not for work, right? RIGHT?
In summary, in case you’re trying to follow along at home, grand total of days I’ll actually be home in August: Eight.
Total of days I’ll be away from home, starting in July through the end of August: 32
Anyone want to come and pack for me? Oh, did I mention the family reunion is camping? And then I go from there to a conference and then to a sales meeting. So, three trips, two very different venues, and two suitcases. Errr…
Yeah. I’ll be the one over in the corner sobbing. With my dark chocolate peanut M&Ms
Wow that is a lot of traveling, and all so close together. You will need to rest the entire month of September! Hopefully you will get to sightsee at least a little bit in New Zealand & Australia. BTW: I have tagged you over at my blog, I know you can come up with 6random things about yourself to share over here
I think it’s a good thing you gave up caffeine. Jet lag is easier to handle sans caffeine. Air travel dehydrates as it is, caffeine would intensify it. Congrats on being so proactive!
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Oh, Kris, you’re so cute. I’m going to send my friend Jaci over here to tell you what I do when I’m tagged for a meme.
She ignores mememe’s. She’s such a bitch.
:giggle:
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I get tired just thinking about all that time in an airplane! :tired:
Still, I’m sure you’ll manage to have some fun :celebrate:
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You so need to hire me to be your personal asst and go with you. I could um asst and um go with you and do stuff and asst….
I’ve had several trips like this…and let me tell you, I bought one dress that I LOVE for any occasion…http://www.infinitedress.com/ or its many different alternatives. I know several companies have them…
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Dawn, American Apparel has a dress somewhat like that, that I’ve lusted over for a year
http://store.americanapparel.net/rsa8339.html
I also once saw a pattern for one and wanted to make it.
Jeepers! I’m gobsmacked! I just came over from Twitter, having wibbled about how stressed I was over the RWA prep… and now, I will never complain about it again!What an itinerary… good luck and I hope all goes smoothly on your travels. And that you get chance for some quality down time when it’s all over. lovePortia
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OOO I love that one! I have the free pattern I’d found on Craftster. A very talented lady by the name of Rowena wrote a tutorial: http://rowena.typepad.com/rostitchery/infinity-dress.html
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I don’t know why you keep getting dropped in spam, Dawn!
I actually have that dress pattern bookmarked. I started to try to make it once, about six months ago, but there was a step I couldn’t wrap my head around so I decided not to. I do have the material though, so I intend to go back to it someday. That’s actually the pattern I was thinking of when I referred to sewing one! Love craftster