When you're packing for a road trip do you make a list to check off everything so that you don't end up forgetting some tiny little object of importance - like hairspray? Or that extra 5 pairs of shoes? No? Only me? Yeah right. Y'all do it too. Just maybe not as um, shall we say 'detail oriented' as I do.
First, I write out what I'm going to need to do to begin getting ready - laundry, fill up car, etc. Next on the list is what I'm wearing by the specific day I'll be wearing it complete with jewelry and shoes. Finally, I then write out exactly what I need to pack and in what bag it needs to go in which is either the suitcase or the hair bag. Yes - I have a bag dedicated solely to my hair products I take with me when traveling. Shut it.
I may have forgotten to mention one little step in the list-making/packing process. That handwritten list? Yeah, it's no more. Now it's now a typed out Excel spreadsheet in alpha order complete with a column to check off the item as I pack it. Kate Gosselin's got nothing on my mad organizational skills.
In the words of Ron White, I told y'all all that to get to this: My list actually contained these words: "pink flask" (as opposed to the other colored flasks one might have?), "Firefly (both kinds)" and "hairspray (regular and purse can)".
You think this is crazy? Read what precious Katiebug posted on my Facebook wall last night: "While y'all are having fun this weekend please remember that even though y'all birthed us, not a one of us kids can afford bail money!" Michelle responded that "We ain't afraid of jail." Within minutes Katiebug replied "Just no hot rollers or makeup!" Aunt Crazy (aka Christy) said she can't go to jail because they don't let you have a flat iron in there. Or smoke.
Candance summed it up best I believe. She said, "No hot rollers or makeup is way scarier than jail. By the time someone figured out we hadn't come home and that it was actually a bad thing, we'd be freaking running the joint. We're that powerful." How precious is she? (For the record, last night when the FB conversation was relayed to That Man he asked what we had been smoking. Bless his heart.)
And Katiebug? For the record, Mary Kay Latourneau rolled her hair on tampons when she was in jail. It's true. I saw it on the Lifetime Movie "Mary Kay Latourneau: All American Girl".
One more tiny little detail. In the event you live anywhere within, oh I guess a 100 mile radius of that little ol' Texas town called Houston, The Southern Girl Gang is riding through this weekend. Don't say we didn't warn ya!
First, I write out what I'm going to need to do to begin getting ready - laundry, fill up car, etc. Next on the list is what I'm wearing by the specific day I'll be wearing it complete with jewelry and shoes. Finally, I then write out exactly what I need to pack and in what bag it needs to go in which is either the suitcase or the hair bag. Yes - I have a bag dedicated solely to my hair products I take with me when traveling. Shut it.
I may have forgotten to mention one little step in the list-making/packing process. That handwritten list? Yeah, it's no more. Now it's now a typed out Excel spreadsheet in alpha order complete with a column to check off the item as I pack it. Kate Gosselin's got nothing on my mad organizational skills.
In the words of Ron White, I told y'all all that to get to this: My list actually contained these words: "pink flask" (as opposed to the other colored flasks one might have?), "Firefly (both kinds)" and "hairspray (regular and purse can)".
You think this is crazy? Read what precious Katiebug posted on my Facebook wall last night: "While y'all are having fun this weekend please remember that even though y'all birthed us, not a one of us kids can afford bail money!" Michelle responded that "We ain't afraid of jail." Within minutes Katiebug replied "Just no hot rollers or makeup!" Aunt Crazy (aka Christy) said she can't go to jail because they don't let you have a flat iron in there. Or smoke.
Candance summed it up best I believe. She said, "No hot rollers or makeup is way scarier than jail. By the time someone figured out we hadn't come home and that it was actually a bad thing, we'd be freaking running the joint. We're that powerful." How precious is she? (For the record, last night when the FB conversation was relayed to That Man he asked what we had been smoking. Bless his heart.)
And Katiebug? For the record, Mary Kay Latourneau rolled her hair on tampons when she was in jail. It's true. I saw it on the Lifetime Movie "Mary Kay Latourneau: All American Girl".
One more tiny little detail. In the event you live anywhere within, oh I guess a 100 mile radius of that little ol' Texas town called Houston, The Southern Girl Gang is riding through this weekend. Don't say we didn't warn ya!
8 comments:
It's times like these that I feel so blessed to live far away from Houston...
*snort*
P.S.
still saying a prayer for Miss Dean... :o)
Have a great time - can't wait to live the weekend vicariously through y'all.
I thought I was the only person in the world to have a separate bag for hair products. Have a great weekend!
Dar;ons..All y'all must be the reason we finally got some friggan rain here in the Big H this weekend ! I thank you from the depest pit of my cold black heart !
I hope all y'all tore it the F up !
Waving from 2 Allen Center
Houston
LOL I hope it was a trip to remember!
BTW, I make a clothing "menu" when I travel but haven't stepped up to excel for it!
Still slightly totally freaking out about Paula Deen with y'all!
So what craziness did you get up to?!?!
O.M.G. y'all were in houston AND saw her highness mrs paula?!?
i hope y'all had a blast. i mean i know you did. but still...a crazy fun blast. one of these times i am gonna come crash y'alls partay! or at least have drinks. or maybe just wave from the street. something.
I do this exact same thing when going out of town! And my list would be printed out, if only I could remember to buy more ink for the printer. For the past year, my lists (and directions, oh, my!) have been hand written.
I usually travel light, since I'll only be gone overnight. When I'm gone longer than overnight? I don't pack many hair "products" but I do need my large-barrel curling iron, flat iron, and hair dryer.
Just surfed in via "Yep, this is my life...."
You're funny!
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