Not that I really want to make a habit of only posting blogs when I’m bored out of my skull, but that is quite frankly what is spurring me to post one now.

I’m quickly becoming intimately connected to the portion of Terminal A at EWR which services Continental flights going to Chicago, Boston, Dallas, and Atlanta. Personally, I’m just trying to get to Atlanta, but apparently this is not the day to do it.

Weather was bad last night with huge thunderstorms that rocked the area. Today wasn’t so bad…a little rain and clouds, but that’s about it - I’ve taken off in worse conditions. However it doesn’t matter what the weather is doing here if in other places the weather is rotten, particularly when a flight that you’re on is delayed coming in from another location. Unfortuntely, there appears to be weather just about everywhere else right now as well as here. So flights coming in from Boston, Fort Lauderdale, Orlando, etc. have ALL been delayed.

So here I sit…full terminal, starving, and bored. I could get up and get something to eat, but one of the downsides of traveling alone is that in order to go somewhere, you have to take everything you have with you. For me, this would also mean losing my prime real estate spot by one of the poles with an outlet in it - the key for being able to keep my laptop operating which is my sanity-saver right now. So getting up is not an option.

Amazing how tired you can get just doing nothing. Tired after hiking 8 hours at 10,000 feet of altitude makes sense to me, tired after sitting in an airport for 3.5 hours does not.

They’ve announced that the flight we’re waiting for from Boston is scheduled to land in the next half hour. Hopefully then they can clean off the plane, get us boarded, and take off this becomes more than just a simple weather delay and moves into the realm of the rediculous. My flight was originally supposed to get into ATL around 8:15, but now is claiming a touchdown of about 10:15 or so… This wouldn’t be so bad if it weren’t for the fact that I’m only down there for the weekend. So basically with this time delay, I’ll be getting in just in time to go to bed and then going home less than 48 hours later…that is, if there isn’t weather again on the back-end of my trip. Please God, no!

The whole point of this weekend is for my sister, Kristin’s wedding shower. We’re having it tomorrow and Joanna & I are the matron & maid of honor (respectively). Jo was going to pick me up at 8:30 and then we were going to hit the grocery store to pick up all the food for tomorrow, however I’m wondering if she’ll have to load up with out me because I can tell you right now that I’m not going to feel much like shopping after this.

Well, I’m out of things to say now. They haven’t said anything else about further delays so hopefully there will be none and I’ll be in the air in the next hour or so.

Here’s hopin’!