After Midnight

I know this post is not that exciting or informative... apologies in advance. I just felt like typing up my tiny midnight dilemma since I wasn't tired enough to go to bed yet!

Right now, it's some time after midnight and since I couldn't sleep, I decided it was time to actually start packing up my bags. Now that I've mostly gotten my two checked suitcases packed, I think it's safe to say that I have a perception problem (i.e., what I see doesn't match up with reality.... yes mom, you might have been right about that at some point in my life!). I thought everything would fit into two large suitcases just from eyeballing it all. It doesn't. The first main problem here is that I actually don't have two large suitcases (apparently). Whoops. I have one large rolly duffle and some smaller non-rolly duffles. Ok, not a big problem. I filled up the large rolly bag and it looks good. I tried to pack a mixture of heavy and light items but knowing myself, I am probably over the weight limit anyway so we can just add that to the second bag fee that I get to pay anyway and life will go on. Then, I filled up the smaller bag and realized that I had my second problem. I need a bigger bag. The smaller bag works but I don't think I'm going to have enough space to fit whatever clothes of mine won't fit in my carry-on. Again, not a huge problem. The obvious solution is to go buy another large rolly duffle. The whole idea is that since I'm already going to be charged so many baggage fees, I may as well go all out! Of course, now I have to unpack the small bag and repack it in whatever bigger bag I get but I think I can handle that. For some reason though, I'm still a little worried about space. I'm sure everything will work out fine but until the bags are zipped and ready to go, I'll be a little leery. All that being said, I guess it's good that I packed up everything now and didn't wait until like Sunday evening or Monday morning (before my afternoon flight) because then I would've been a bit more panicky.

On a side note, something I bought to bring with me (like some body spray or something) has made me smell good, like right now. So, maybe I'll run out of space and not be able to bring everything but at least I'll smell good while I'm over there!

On a double side note, the fact that I cannot sleep is somewhat tied to my impending departure. Usually, the night or two before a big trip like this, I either am so excited that I can't sleep or I think that if I stay awake, it will help me sleep on the plane (which it NEVER does since I always like to read and watch movies on a majority of the flight). On my past two trips, I've started out kind of sick from not getting enough sleep so I guess it's good that I get this out of my system now while I still have the weekend to recover and hopefully I'll be able to get some good sleep in Sunday night.