Four hours, fourty minutes.
FOUR hours before we went trick or treating on Halloween day, I felt sick once again. I lay me down to sleep but I tossed and turned on the bed and couldn’t find a comfortable position to lie rested. It felt like my body was deadly beaten up and my head was about to explode into tiny pieces. I then took another dose of NyQuil which by the way works like magic to me…like I was in some sort of a magic spell, next thing I know I was deeply asleep.
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At 6pm, our friends and their kids came - all dressed up for the occasion: Tony, Cage and cutie Lexie as Darth Vader, pretty MAra as a witch, Chase - a Nascar racer, and Hunter in all black with a weird nasty mask on.
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Baby Rain was so cute in her little fairy outfit with wings that glow-n-d-dark. It was her first Halloween.
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I once said I will only join them go to a couple of houses just to take pictures ( since I really didn’t feel well then ) but I ended up enjoying as much as the kids did. Rain was having a blast.
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WE called it a night after the "daddies" had a few drinks. I finished packing my baggages for my trip the ff. day…
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I missed my flight to Georgia. We got to the airport only FOURty (40) mins away from my departure time. They won’t take me in cause they said I was too late to board the plane… I drove James to work instead…
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Shopping is therapeutic. Rain and I went to NAvy Exchange ( shopping mall) and spent the day away malling and window shopping in an effort to dogde the thought of what a messed up morning it was for the both of us.
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Some things are better left unspoken. We didn’t talk about the "missed flight." Neither one of us blamed each other. All we know was the airline screwed up my trip. I hate them with a passion.
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" So, did you get something crazy today?" I know you guys went to the mall." My hubby asked with a huge silly grin across his face. I said, "Yes, of course!"
Then I pulled a tiny shoe box and showed him a new pair of Coach slip-ons. He shrugged his shoulders and laughed his way out of the room then exclaimed " I knew it!" " I do know you, I know you so well!" Haha.
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I should have been in the Philippines by now if I didn’t miss my flight. I wasn’t mad at all. Travelling on Nov. 1st wasn’t a really good idea for me. Twice I asked James if we can change the departure - way before it. He refused just cause we will have to pay addt’l fee…plus the processs is such a pain in the butt.
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I am not superstitious but at the back of my mind, that flight may probably be my departure date on the face of the earth - in the physical realm. Haha, James thought that’s a nut case. Maybe the Gods in the heaven agreed with me. The day itself, although we had plenty of time to board the plane, it simply didn’t happen.
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But imagine six more days of anticipation and waiting (that is by the way killing me) but well, I will wake up one day finally stepping on the Philippine soil once again.
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I may not know exactly why things happen the way they are. Sometimes it is beyond human understanding…but I believe there are reasons.
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The next day, Rain got sick. She woke up with a runny nose and fever. I am glad we were not on the plane. It would have been harder for her to be flying sick for 22 hours. That maybe is the reason, a good one at that.
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Though our trip was postponed, we will fly out of here eventually. I think that already changed our stroke of bad luck.
