Our post office in Phoenix managed to screw up our mail hold again. Yes, they held the mail while we were in Australia, the problem was they kept holding it after we returned. No mail was delivered Thursday or Friday, so I got to start my morning with a trip to the post office. Not something I wanted to do, especially on a travel day. I really hate having to run errands on a travel day. I’m always paranoid that something bad will happen – flat tire, car accident.
Well, nothing like that happened, of course. But the trip turned out to be a total waste of time. Turns out, our regular carrier was off the last two days and the sub didn’t delivered the held mail. So by the time I arrived at 9:30, our mail was already out on the truck for delivery today. Hope it gets here before we leave for the airport at 2:00.
Further contributing to my foul mood is that I got absolute shit for sleep last night. Probably partially due to lingering jet lag and partially due to the lump of deep dish pizza clogging my digestive tract. (Yes, I know I swore to clean up my diet upon our return – consider it one last indiscretion) I also woke up constantly with hot flashes, the worst I’ve had in quite a while.
Bottom line, I am happy, happy, happy to be heading back to Minnesota this afternoon. I need the routine to get me back on track. Yes, we are going to have a million decisions to make regarding the house. Yes, I’m going to freak out about the costs and whether or not we should even proceed. But I’m going to be doing that from the comfort of my home base with no big travel plans on the horizon.