Half an hour to finish packing

We leave the house in half an hour for my brother's school orientation. Then we are driving directly to Toronto to drop me off at the airport.

I was up most of the night packing, and I'm finally done. However, I'm not done "well" that's for sure...I feel like I've done the cheapest packing job ever, not really looking for my stuff laying around the house and not spending the extra time to make sure I've got everything I need.

The reality is just now starting to kick in. I've said some hard goodbyes and am now realizing that they were real. And for a whole 11 months at least.

I'm a little nervous about flying internationally, coz I've never done it before. I'm afraid to not find my gate in the big LA and likely big Auckland airports, even though I have at least 2 and a half hours to spare there.

I've got my laptop, but I think I've decided that I will only use it in the airports rather than watching movies on the plane. Laptops are always uncomfortable to open and use on a plane anyways...plus I'm sure movies will be available on the plane, right?

I had a 5 hour nap and actually feel awake right now. Probably because I'm just so anxious and/or excited (I don't quite know what this feeling is, exactly) that I'm not noticing that I should be tired. But at least this way I'll hopefully sleep well on the plane tonight.

I'm having an issue with being confident about the timechange between here and there. I'm pretty confident about it but I'm not even close to certain. Especially since my laptop tells me a completely different time when I change it to the "Auckland/Wellington" timezone than I was thinking myself. I hope it's wrong and I'm not, because I've already told many people how to convert the time over. Yeesh - I'd have to go back and tell them all again!

Okay well I have 20 minutes to finish the few things left to do - including printing off my travel insurance papers that I just received yesterday...eesh.

Okay well...I'm off! Next you hear from me I'll either be in an airport on the way or in New Zealand itself!

Butterflies...eep.