Slow, slow, slow

[yuuago]

Whenever it's time for someone to leave, mum starts shoving food in their direction. "Here, take some cookies with you! Oh, and this package of fudge! And X and Y and Z!" She's like my grandmother that way. Does it to my brother, too, and at supper time there is always something similar. "Do you want more? No? There's still pasta left, how about that? No? How about dessert? I have tarts and pie and fruit - are you sure you don't want any? Are you sure?" Always pressing food on people.

Well, that's how it was today. I'm going to be going home with fudge but I kind of ended up eating all the cookies, oops. Haha. Oh, well. Man, am I ever looking forward to being back in Saskatoon, though I'm kind of worried how the flight will go. For those who don't know, there was an incident on Christmas Day (?) in the US that caused international flights to be shut down for a while, both in America and in Canada. Least, that's my understanding. Then the result is that flights were backlogged for quite a few days, and eventually things started moving, but there were huge-ass delays. Now, I think things have calmed down a bit, especially when it comes to just inter-provincial flights, but it's probably slowed still. Man, I'm just glad that Fort McMurray's airport isn't a major one, else there could potentially be huge issues with delays. I'll have no problem getting to Edmonton, and probably Edmonton to Calgary will be fine, but it's the Calgary to Saskatoon flight that I'm worried about.

I'm still working on making a list of ~resolutions~ for the new year. I've felt so busy these last few days that I haven't really be able to sit down and think on it. I've decided something though - since I never fulfil goals if they're vague, I want to talk only in defined things, and preferably specifics. Nothing like "try to be a better person" or undefined stuff like that. More like, "get driver's license by May" and "read at least one non-academic book per month". Probably 3/4 of it will be real-life related, and 1/4 will be fanstuff-related. We'll see.

I've started re-watching Saiyuki. Very exciting~ I've never actually seen the entire series. Only up until 12, I think - maybe even fewer than that. This was back in the days of fansub vhs, gasp and egads. Anyway, it'll probably take me a while to get through this. I had intended to also re-read the few manga volumes I have, but er, looks like I won't be making my way through them before I leave. (I would take them with me, but space in my luggage is kind of limited). After that, I'm going to tackle Utena, which is still dl'ing. I've only seen a few episodes of that one, too. That was all thanks to dearest parzi, who copied her fansub tapes for me back in the day. Ahhhh, memories.

Sigh. Should get back to packing now. I have a feeling I'll be up all night.