Butrfly's Wonderings

Made reservations to fly back to Boston in a couple weeks to visit with my dad and his side of the family for 10 days. It's been more then 5 years since I last flew on a plane and I'm feeling a little apprehensive about it in light of the recent raised awareness levels for plane hijackings in the Autumn months. Should be interesting to see how drastically security checks have changed since I was last at an airport.

I made arrangements to get picked up at home and taken to the airport by a Super Shuttle service. The drawback is that they will be picking me up at 3 am to get me to the airport for my 6 am flight even though I am only 20 miles from the airport. :( Beats paying $7 bucks a day parking or $50 for the taxi though. Super Shuttle is only $21 from my city. Think I'm going to just stay up all night and catch up with sleep on the plane.

A few weeks after my return from Boston, I'm planning to drive to Albuquerque to visit my mom in her new home. Figured it would be best to drive since I'm pretty confident I will be leaving there with a lot more then I arrive with. That is a standing tradition and joke about visiting my mom. My brother and I never leave empty handed. She's always thinking about us and buys things she thinks we'll have use for or enjoy then loads us up with them when we visit.

Welp, I better get to bed. I have some groceries being delivered in the morning. Anyone else making use of the online ordering and delivery service that grocery chains are providing these days? I find it very convenient and a vital tool in budgeting my grocery expense. Once a month I go shopping down the aisles of item inventory on their website, picking and choosing what I need and doing all the impulse buying that always gets me into trouble, then at the end I review the shopping cart and remove all the impulses and non-necessities until the total is under my monthly budget limit before checking out. It only costs $5 for the delivery fee and is worth every penny as I watch the young muscled guy carry those bags of veggies and fruits up my apartment stairs. :D