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sailorhathorNew livejournal look. Neat. I hope I can still find everything.
I need to talk about my trip to Las Vegas, so
Trip went fine. The ride on Greyhound was exhausting. It was SO hard to sleep on the bus. I got maybe 3 hours of sleep on each night I had to sleep on it. Then, after I got there, I got these massive leg cramps in both legs from sitting for so long! So I think I'm just too old to spend 30 hours on the bus, unless there's just no way around it. Anyway, the people on the way out there were nice, no major incidents.
The leg cramps were sort of embarrassing, because it started in the restaurant on Friday night. We're about to leave, and my left calf starts cramping up. Ow. Tried to massage it out, then walk it off. Later, we were walking to Lizz's car to take me and Jay back to his house (because that's where I was staying) and I was loaded up with all my luggage. I had a bag over my shoulder, my purse, and I was dragging a small suitcase behind me. Everyone walks faster than me (except maybe my dad XD), so I was trying to keep up, but it was hard with all that stuff. Because I'm trying to walk faster, my left leg starts cramping up again. Great. So I'm like errr, I promise I'm going as fast as I can, but I'm in pain, and everyone's looking back at me, wondering if they should help. Then I finally get to the car, and go to get up in it, and BOTH calves go, "CRAAAAAAMP!!!" at the same time. Oh my God it hurt so bad! Lizz is like, "Is there anything we can do to help?" and I'm gritting my teeth like, "Noooo..." My legs were so sore for the rest of the weekend. The left one still gives me stiff pains at times. I'm considering getting some muscle relaxers, though this doesn't happen that often. Maybe once every 6 months, a little more often when I have a job where I spend a lot of time on my feet. While I worked at Hancock's my legs would cramp up once every 3 months or so.
Anyway, Greyhound just isn't as easy on my body as it used to be.
Once I got to Vegas, my MSTie friend Lizz was there to pick me up. It was really fun!! There's too much to do in Vegas; I want to go back again. I spent most of the time with the MSTie friends in the meeting room riffing movies. It was really really fun! Just laughing and laughing for hours. ^_^ Some of the group asked me to bring "The Toolbox Murders" to riff, and everyone was really anxious to see it because of the title. Then we started watching it, and about half the group turned out to be really squeamish, heehee. They couldn't take all the blood! We had to turn it off halfway through! I was like you didn't expect there to be toolbox murders in "The Toolbox Murders"?!?! :D I didn't mind because the movie became a great running joke throughout the entire weekend! People kept joking about maniacs with toolboxes and substituting other words into the title, like, "The Sewing Kit Murders!" and stuff like that. Made me feel like one of the gang. ^_^
We went to this thing called "The Star Trek Experience" which is basically a ride--you sit in a chair and the chair rocks back and forth while you watch a big screen showing you an animated thing that looks like you are flying through space. All of these things come at you and you "avoid" them; when the space ship goes to the right, your chair leans to the right, and stuff like that. It was cool.
I did have a really great time, and it was nice to see a bunch of my online friends again. When I left, everybody got up and hugged me. ^__^ That felt really good. I didn't do much gambling at all, which is one reason I'd like to go back someday. I was just enjoying myself with the group too much to leave.
We riffed lots of movies and shorts. One movie we did was called, "Fiend Without a Face" about an invisible monster killing people. The monsters turn out to be walking brains. God it was cheesy. My favorite part was this guy who has been brain sucked comes in a room going, "Uhhhhhh duuuuuuh duuuuuh," and he sounded absolutely hilarious. Everyone started imitating him; I could hardly stop laughing. As soon as I'd get calmed down, someone would go, "Duuuuuh!" again and I'd just start laughing again. Then people started imitating Scooby Doo (since the guy kinda sounded like him) and that got me laughing all over again. That was one of my favorite moments.
A couple of my favorite jokes that I can remember from "The Toolbox Murders": The toolbox murderer starts attacking a woman with a drill, and someone behind me (not sure who) goes, "I'm a torso!" XD I love obscure Simpson's refs. Then there was a scene where a chick takes her top off, and one guy (I remember who, just not sure if he'd want to be identified) says, "What was this movie called again? The Toolbox Nipples?" XD I love these people.
I got to meet some of the MSTies I've known online for 6 1/2 years but never got to meet before now. That was really cool. I wish we could all afford to do mini-cons like twice a year or more.
My trip home was much more eventful. Because Monday was Labor Day, they had all these delays, as can be expected on a holiday. The bus leaving from Phoenix was over an hour late. This woman butted in line to wait to get on the bus, and that made another black lady really mad, so they got into a shouting match! THIS is the Greyhound I know. :D First lady's like, "I've been here since 6 AM so I can butt in line anywhere I like! You want me to get at the back of the line, you just watch me!" Other lady: "Oh I'll watch you! I'll watch you all day! You'll see me watching you!" She was just really mad because everybody else got in line to wait and that one lady thought she could get in front of everyone since she'd been there so long. I agreed with the black lady; get in line. But it was kinda funny, that they were yelling at each other like that over something kinda small.
Then, later in the trip, we had a loony old woman on the bus. She kept telling everyone that she loved them and wouldn't stop getting up and walking up and down the aisle talking to various people. This one young girl around 18 somewhere said the woman told her she was pretty and gave her $150 to buy a new outfit!! Woah! An older black lady got sick of the woman walking up and down the aisle because everytime she did, she would brush her and wake her up. So SHE started a shouting match on the bus! She got really mean about it too, yelling that she was going to beat the woman up when they got to the next reststop. Sheesh! Nothing came of that because the bus driver finally threatened to throw them both off the bus if they couldn't get along.
When we got closer to Ft. Worth, the driver told us that since there had been so many delays, they were just going to drive straight through to Dallas. YAAAAY! So I had no layover. The last 3 hours of the bus trip were miserable though, because the driver insisted that some big guy sit next to me, and he took up about half my seat as well as his own. I could hardly move! So of course I couldn't sleep either. Then the guy snored really loud and kept poking me in the side with his elbow. I couldn't wait to get away from him. I got into Dallas about 3 AM. The first DART train goes out at 4AM from the West End, so I got on that train and went HOOOOOOME!!! I took the bus from the train station to a street a block or so from my house, walked home, and went to SLEEP. :D
I was really happy that I could get all of this done without any help from anybody else; just proved that I can do it. (I mean the train trip and the bus trip home from the Greyhound station; didn't need anyone to pick me up.) I am very happy to report that downtown Dallas is pretty safe at 4 AM. I had one homeless guy ask me if I had a dollar, and that was it. No muggings, no one even looked at me funny, and the other two people at the train station were very nice.
I'd say that about sums up my trip in a nutshell.
I need to talk about my trip to Las Vegas, so
Trip went fine. The ride on Greyhound was exhausting. It was SO hard to sleep on the bus. I got maybe 3 hours of sleep on each night I had to sleep on it. Then, after I got there, I got these massive leg cramps in both legs from sitting for so long! So I think I'm just too old to spend 30 hours on the bus, unless there's just no way around it. Anyway, the people on the way out there were nice, no major incidents.
The leg cramps were sort of embarrassing, because it started in the restaurant on Friday night. We're about to leave, and my left calf starts cramping up. Ow. Tried to massage it out, then walk it off. Later, we were walking to Lizz's car to take me and Jay back to his house (because that's where I was staying) and I was loaded up with all my luggage. I had a bag over my shoulder, my purse, and I was dragging a small suitcase behind me. Everyone walks faster than me (except maybe my dad XD), so I was trying to keep up, but it was hard with all that stuff. Because I'm trying to walk faster, my left leg starts cramping up again. Great. So I'm like errr, I promise I'm going as fast as I can, but I'm in pain, and everyone's looking back at me, wondering if they should help. Then I finally get to the car, and go to get up in it, and BOTH calves go, "CRAAAAAAMP!!!" at the same time. Oh my God it hurt so bad! Lizz is like, "Is there anything we can do to help?" and I'm gritting my teeth like, "Noooo..." My legs were so sore for the rest of the weekend. The left one still gives me stiff pains at times. I'm considering getting some muscle relaxers, though this doesn't happen that often. Maybe once every 6 months, a little more often when I have a job where I spend a lot of time on my feet. While I worked at Hancock's my legs would cramp up once every 3 months or so.
Anyway, Greyhound just isn't as easy on my body as it used to be.
Once I got to Vegas, my MSTie friend Lizz was there to pick me up. It was really fun!! There's too much to do in Vegas; I want to go back again. I spent most of the time with the MSTie friends in the meeting room riffing movies. It was really really fun! Just laughing and laughing for hours. ^_^ Some of the group asked me to bring "The Toolbox Murders" to riff, and everyone was really anxious to see it because of the title. Then we started watching it, and about half the group turned out to be really squeamish, heehee. They couldn't take all the blood! We had to turn it off halfway through! I was like you didn't expect there to be toolbox murders in "The Toolbox Murders"?!?! :D I didn't mind because the movie became a great running joke throughout the entire weekend! People kept joking about maniacs with toolboxes and substituting other words into the title, like, "The Sewing Kit Murders!" and stuff like that. Made me feel like one of the gang. ^_^
We went to this thing called "The Star Trek Experience" which is basically a ride--you sit in a chair and the chair rocks back and forth while you watch a big screen showing you an animated thing that looks like you are flying through space. All of these things come at you and you "avoid" them; when the space ship goes to the right, your chair leans to the right, and stuff like that. It was cool.
I did have a really great time, and it was nice to see a bunch of my online friends again. When I left, everybody got up and hugged me. ^__^ That felt really good. I didn't do much gambling at all, which is one reason I'd like to go back someday. I was just enjoying myself with the group too much to leave.
We riffed lots of movies and shorts. One movie we did was called, "Fiend Without a Face" about an invisible monster killing people. The monsters turn out to be walking brains. God it was cheesy. My favorite part was this guy who has been brain sucked comes in a room going, "Uhhhhhh duuuuuuh duuuuuh," and he sounded absolutely hilarious. Everyone started imitating him; I could hardly stop laughing. As soon as I'd get calmed down, someone would go, "Duuuuuh!" again and I'd just start laughing again. Then people started imitating Scooby Doo (since the guy kinda sounded like him) and that got me laughing all over again. That was one of my favorite moments.
A couple of my favorite jokes that I can remember from "The Toolbox Murders": The toolbox murderer starts attacking a woman with a drill, and someone behind me (not sure who) goes, "I'm a torso!" XD I love obscure Simpson's refs. Then there was a scene where a chick takes her top off, and one guy (I remember who, just not sure if he'd want to be identified) says, "What was this movie called again? The Toolbox Nipples?" XD I love these people.
I got to meet some of the MSTies I've known online for 6 1/2 years but never got to meet before now. That was really cool. I wish we could all afford to do mini-cons like twice a year or more.
My trip home was much more eventful. Because Monday was Labor Day, they had all these delays, as can be expected on a holiday. The bus leaving from Phoenix was over an hour late. This woman butted in line to wait to get on the bus, and that made another black lady really mad, so they got into a shouting match! THIS is the Greyhound I know. :D First lady's like, "I've been here since 6 AM so I can butt in line anywhere I like! You want me to get at the back of the line, you just watch me!" Other lady: "Oh I'll watch you! I'll watch you all day! You'll see me watching you!" She was just really mad because everybody else got in line to wait and that one lady thought she could get in front of everyone since she'd been there so long. I agreed with the black lady; get in line. But it was kinda funny, that they were yelling at each other like that over something kinda small.
Then, later in the trip, we had a loony old woman on the bus. She kept telling everyone that she loved them and wouldn't stop getting up and walking up and down the aisle talking to various people. This one young girl around 18 somewhere said the woman told her she was pretty and gave her $150 to buy a new outfit!! Woah! An older black lady got sick of the woman walking up and down the aisle because everytime she did, she would brush her and wake her up. So SHE started a shouting match on the bus! She got really mean about it too, yelling that she was going to beat the woman up when they got to the next reststop. Sheesh! Nothing came of that because the bus driver finally threatened to throw them both off the bus if they couldn't get along.
When we got closer to Ft. Worth, the driver told us that since there had been so many delays, they were just going to drive straight through to Dallas. YAAAAY! So I had no layover. The last 3 hours of the bus trip were miserable though, because the driver insisted that some big guy sit next to me, and he took up about half my seat as well as his own. I could hardly move! So of course I couldn't sleep either. Then the guy snored really loud and kept poking me in the side with his elbow. I couldn't wait to get away from him. I got into Dallas about 3 AM. The first DART train goes out at 4AM from the West End, so I got on that train and went HOOOOOOME!!! I took the bus from the train station to a street a block or so from my house, walked home, and went to SLEEP. :D
I was really happy that I could get all of this done without any help from anybody else; just proved that I can do it. (I mean the train trip and the bus trip home from the Greyhound station; didn't need anyone to pick me up.) I am very happy to report that downtown Dallas is pretty safe at 4 AM. I had one homeless guy ask me if I had a dollar, and that was it. No muggings, no one even looked at me funny, and the other two people at the train station were very nice.
I'd say that about sums up my trip in a nutshell.
