If someone was asked to describe me, I can most definitely bet they would not say I was “cheery” and “optimistic”. Nope, I’m pleasant, but definitely more realistic and a bit grumpy. Why should you care? Well, I feel like being a storm cloud of rain today, so here is my week in travel blahs.After traveling quite a bit the past month, and getting sick quite a bit in the past month, I’m ready for Christmas carols and cookies and lights. Those things make me happy.
Blah #1. Having to sit beside a sick, sneezing, spluttering baby on a 2.5 hour flight. If this wasn’t bad enough, the mother couldn’t nurse or let it sleep without it kicking me or it’s entire head in my seat and me hanging out of the aisle. I get it, having a baby on a plane must be hard, and you were so freaking unorganized that you couldn’t find anything in your giant baby bag which couldn’t even fit under the seat in front of you. But guess what, I get really pissed when your sick baby is in my personal space. And I have a hard time letting that go when—stop it—I GET SICK after the flight. So to the mother in row 8? You are my #1 blah this week.
Blah #2. Cabs in New Orleans. There seriously should be some warning sign for visitors in New Orleans regarding the horrible attitude of cab drivers (except one) and the total impossibility of catching a cab, particularly if you are not going less than 10 blocks. Come on, I’m not a total weenie, DC cab drivers are no cup of tea. But New Orleans cab drivers make DC cab drivers look like some of the nicest people on the planet. Stop it. Seriously. And Uber? Where are you in NOLA? Huh? You rolled out service a few months ago, but there wasn’t a single car available in the entire Warehouse District or French Quarter. That’s what I would call an Uber fail.
Blah #3. Unpopularity of all things Bhutan. I’m sort of surprised, but not really: Bhutan posts on my blog are some of the most unpopular entries I’ve ever written. Is Bhutan that inaccessible that no one wants to read posts because they never are going to go there? Are Bhutan entries so predictable, because almost everyone that goes to Bhutan sees the same thing and goes to the same places? I mean, I’d think it was just my horrible blogging, but the rest of the posts that I’ve interspersed with the Bhutan posts have a normal amount of hits. I’m sad more people aren’t interested in Bhutan, because it was fabulous.
Blah #4. Thinking about updating my blog. I still don’t mind writing, but the thought of overhauling my blog with a new design and bells and whistles is stressing me out. I’m not ready to pay someone else to do it for me (though I’d gladly pay for a template), because this isn’t a business. My coding skills are subpar and I think this is going to be a huge time-suck for the foreseeable future. It needs to be done, but I’m quickly losing motivation to do it.
Yea yea, I’ll do “things I’m thankful for” or some awful, predictable variation in the near future. But today? Today is all about the blahs.
