I have a confession to make. About a month ago I was in Ottawa, attending a meeting. When I got home from Ottawa I could not find my glasses.
I could not remember putting my glasses in my suitcase, purse, etc so I assumed I left them at the hotel in Ottawa. A reasonable assumption. When not wearing contacts, I've been wearing a ratty, bent, scratched, piece of crap pair of glasses I'd managed to scrounge up from the depths of one of my cupboards.
Basically they suck. I hate them.
So tonight, having arrived in Great Falls and encountering bad weather, we decided to stay here for the night. (doomed we are to stay in Great Falls. A pet peeve of mine). Since it is snowing, we cannot put out the slides. Since we cannot put out the slides, there is nowhere for me to sleep. I cannot drive all day tomorrow without a decent night's sleep, since I'm already fairly tired. I announced to all and sundry that I was going across the Flying J parking lot to stay at the Crystal Inn.
I gathered my stuff and my mom mused about getting her own room at the hotel. Which, frankly, is ridiculous. Why on earth would we pay for 2 rooms? Stupidity. So I said I'd get one with two beds, voila, done.
Turns out this was a good decision for the generator on the trailer is not working, the thing my dad keeps his teeth was frozen and the hotel was only $99. What a deal!
What does this all have to do with my glasses? Wait. There's a p0ol here. It was just after 9 when we decided to stay, so I had to go collect my swimsuit. It was in my suitcase. The same one I took to Ottawa. I was looking for my makeup/toiletry bag and the swimsuit when my hands closed upon my glasses.
Seriously? How the hell did I miss them when I packed the suitcase yesterday? I didn't clean it out, but you'd think I might have seen them. So. Now I don't need to run out and get new glasses in Mexico like I'd planned (but what the heck, that might be kind of fun!)
In other news, I think I can talk my parents into geocaching tomorrow. Exciting!
I did something else stupid today but now I cannot remember what it was. Oy.
In exciting news, the hotel includes breakfast so for once I managed to pay for a meal for my parents. HAH! Also free internet. Yay! I don't have to pay for a shower at the truck stop! Yay!
Well now I have nothing further to say and I have a pile of geocache travel bugs to log.