Packing stresses me out. I think this is because in the past I’ve made some pretty serious packing mistakes.

I’ve been known to forget to pack really important things like underwear or my toothbrush. I still remember the brouhaha that ensued one time in high school when I went to visit my dad and forgot my make-up. This was in the late 80s, and did I mention I was in high school? I did NOT leave the house without foundation. Ever, under any circumstances.

I’ve also been known to forget to pack really important irreplaceable on vacation things like my glasses.

Eventually I developed a habit of writing a list. We’re only going to be gone a week, but somehow my list is taking up an entire piece of paper. In three columns of tiny print.

In my defense, I’m packing for many different things – sitting in the car for hours, the beach, a wedding, a day at Disneyland, and a day in Reno.

All I can say is thank God we aren’t flying because the extra baggage charge would kill us.

I had all these fantasies about getting an iphone before we left so I wouldn’t have to quit my twitter and facebook cold turkey for a whole week, and so I could entertain my tweeple with vacation pics… but it didn’t work out.

My cell phone is a motorola razr that I bought in 2006. I can’t even access the internet with this relic. I can take pictures, text and talk, and that’s it. So there will be no tweeting, twit pic’ing, or facebooking going on from my phone.

My husband’s phone at least has internet access, and we also have this thing called an Archos 605 wifi. I call it my Thingie because I honestly have no idea what the hell it is. But it holds my playlists like an ipod, movies like a computer, and has internet access with a full, yet teeny-tiny, keyboard.

With the combination of my husband’s phone and my Thingie, I should be able to do some limited tweeting and twitpic’ing, maybe even some facebooking. The real problem is going to be that I probably won’t be able to read all of everyone else’s tweets and status updates. I’m going to miss something!!!

I don’t even want to think about what my google reader is going to look like when I get back. So, I’ll just apologize in advance for not reading, or commenting, anything any of you write for the next week.

And on that note, I really need to get back to packing. See you all next Thursday!

PS. Not to imply that I will have a blog up the day after we get back. You know how I roll.

PPS. I was totally kidding about not reading your posts. While it’s true I probably won’t have time to comment, I will have to read all of them because I want to know what’s going on with you. I’m stalky like that.

PPS. Speaking of being stalky, I think my recent tweet shamed my ex-husband into not checking my blog every hour. Maybe someone should tell him he can just block his computer’s connection to statcounter? That’s how other people stalk my blog, thinking I don’t know about it…

Tags: disneyland, vacation

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