Likalia’s Labyrinth

The packing is almost done – I actually think I need to unpack and repack because I have TOO much stuff. It is a bad habit of wanting to be over prepared. I take way too many clothes then don’t wear half of them. I think I need to go through and remove some now. lol

Once I’ve done that and loaded up my iPod Touch with the necessary entertainment I will be off on the first leg of the trip, down to S&S&R’s place for the night. I fly out tomorrow morning at 7AM. Insanely early, but I’d rather leave here early and arrive early then the alternative of arriving later in the day.

I don’t know how much I’ll blog while I am gone, I will try to throw up at the very least updates as to where I am at and what I’ve seen. I’ll mostly be blogging from my touch though and that doesn’t really lend itself to long posts. Plus I am sure I’ll be busy filling up the 16gbs of camera memory I am taking with me.

Ah! Here I go…

Ciao People!

So while I should have been packing for my trip I sat with some friends in my gazebo and enjoyed a glass of wine.

I really think it was a better way to spend my time, don’t you?

I don’t think it has really hit me yet that I am going on vacation. Perhaps tomorrow when all my stuff is packed and I am ready to go. Or after my day of packing while I am driving to Victoria to spend the night before my flight there.

Either way it is all a good start to my vacation.

Thanks for hanging with me Indigo Eve, Maggie and Evil Monkey.

I hope everyone had a happy July 1st, Canada Day for my Canadian readers, Tuesday for everyone else.

Mine was rather busy. It started off with my last concert with the Community Band. Unlike the last time we played we had a nice shaded area. We didn’t really have an audience just random people milling about.

After that was done I came home and put up my gazebo which looks like this:

But with mosquito netting all around it. Now we can relax in my backyard, bug free! Which Indigo Eve will get to test out while I am away since she is house sitting for me.

Once I had put as much of the gazebo together as I could on my own I grabbed some dinner, watched a little TV, then headed out to watch Indigo Eve perform some belly dancing at the Canada Day Ethnic Celebration.

Then we came back and she and Evil Monkey helped me finish putting the roof and mosquito netting on the gazebo.

By the time they left it was 10:30 and sadly I have a long list of things I need to get done before I head out on Thursday, but just don’t have the energy to do now. I think I’ll be making tomorrow a short day at work so I can accomplish some things. Like freaking out a little bit.

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I was watching TV this afternoon when a commercial for Chevy cars came on, specifically their On-Star system.

I’m sure every one has seen or heard one of their commercials where the fabulous people at On-Star save someone’s life, or rather mundanely unlock their doors. All very touching and poignant.

This particular commercial talks about how ONLY Chevy (GM) cars have On-Star, then it shows how the system works. Crash, signal, transmit. Along with showing where these systems are located on the car.

The first thing I thought when they showed the “transmit” signal comes from the cars antenna was, what happens if you roll your car and the antenna breaks, does it still work? Or what if you don’t hit that crash signal button? I was still thinking about this fact when the commercial moved into a close up of the woman talking, with a Honda and a Toyota in the background, saying that neither of those OTHER cars comes with this amazing system.

Did I think at this point: I better only buy a GM car because obviously this system is fabulous and no car should be with out it?

Um no, I actually thought, well thank god I drive a Honda which is so safe that it doesn’t require a system that automatically alerts people when my car crashes and I am unconscious. Also how unfortunate that GM makes such horribly crappy cars that they had to invent this system in the first place.

Now I can only assume this was NOT the impression they were trying to make with this commercial, at least I hope not other wise they should really fire their marketing department. Yet another reason I am happy with my import car.