Salacious Propriety

So I just got in a couple hours or so ago. Knew about this storm coming in last night. My cruise won’t set sail tomorrow morning anymore but will Saturday morning instead. Because of this I had to haul ass last night and book another room at another hotel. It’s already bad bookingwise with all the flight delays and summer jetsetters and others stuck here, but on top of that I found out the VMAs are here tomorrow…so yep I got a room/hotel and it’s not dumpy like this shithole I’m in right now…it’s pimp the next place…but its $$$$$. Damn you MTV.

Got up around 5am to catch my flight. My aunt is accompanying me too. She’s older and has a cane and nags a lot. So I was preparing for nagging. So far there’s been none and at the airports we got to ride the carts everywhere! Woohoo old people!

From Cleveland the flight was supposed to be at 825, but we got to the gate right when another flight on a way bigger, newer, better jet was about to take off at 700. We had a connection flight to Charlotte, NC. So this jet was big enough and early enough in the morning that pretty much anyone could sit wherever, including first class. Plus, with my aunt, they let us be right in front so she could get out first. So yeah, caught the flight, got to Charlotte and now had to sit there for 3 hours till the flight to miami. I hung out at one of the bars and met two awesome bartenders, Scott and Leah…and some nameless flight attendant hottie. Scott’s hilarious…he also shares my hatred for War of the Worlds to the same angry extent. He’s one of those louder look at me types and was challenging the bar to ask him any history question cause he’s an expert. I asked him who was assasinated that sparked World War I. He totally got it too. Archduke Ferdinand. Then he hit back with “Who was the assassin?” And i totally didn’t know. This sounds a lot dorkier than it really was…it wasn’t nerd bowl or anything. We watched Regis and Kelly…she’s so pretty and 3 kids!…and regis is an asshat. Oh get this, at the bar (drinking at 8 in the morning woooo that’s so wrong) I had to ask for a book of matches. When I left cleveland and went thru security, apparently a new rule is NO LIGHTERS. So they took away my lighter Bastards. I just bought that too last night. Speaking of bastards, at the Charlotte airport, while waiting for boarding, there were a troupe of your good ol boys barely hiding their racist comments. I swear it was hilarious…could have come out of a movie or something. “Pat Robertson blah blah…the devil is in that kind of talk…Condaleeza (sp?) Rice bashing.” So fast forward …

Slept on the flight to miami. Enter Miami Airport…ohhhhhh the beautiful women! Just at the airport! I try to get out of Snohio as much as possible but the older I get the less that happens so nowadays when I do take trips I get reminded of yet another reason why the midwest sucks. It’s been some years since I was last here so anytime I get to go to a real city is a treat and blessing. It’s just little things…like being able to walk around not looking like a hillbilly or suburbia and not have people wonder my gender or if I’m a godfearing christian or some crap. Okay, ohio isn’t that bad, but for the most part the people are fat, american flag designed fanny pack wearing (not trying to be mean really) nice, but sheltered people. So yeah, being able to walk around feeling comfortable is great.

So this place i’m staying at right now is a dump. I read the reviews on the net and the people were so right. The staff here are mean, it took 20 minutes to check-in because of a paper jam in the printer and they kept speaking ONLY in Spanish…even to me. I caught most of it (thank you h.s. spanish) and they slipped in some obnoxiousness too. Also this place is like right by the airport. Every freakin 5 minutes a jet flies right over this place. I didn’t think it’d be that bad…I can usually sleep or relax without noise bothering me, but its rumbley and waaaaaaaaunnnngh sounding. Will be glad to go to the mas better hotel tomorrow.

Plans for now…despite the weather, I’m meeting a friend of mine local to here and we’re gonna hang out and also gotta go to a wedding rehearsal…the cruise is a wedding thing too and I’m giving away the bride!…my favoritest cousin in the world.

Will update more and post some campics of the hurricane as the weekend continues.

Peace.