Two(ish) Days/Some Tea With Your Sugar?

I leave for England on Saturday!!!!

How weird is that?!

It's going to rock, being the fulfillment of a lifelong dream and all. And I get the bonus of going to visit Coolmore Stud, one of the biggest racehorse breeders in the WORLD. Hoping to pick up some tips for my future career. ;-)

The trip is all ready. I made the notebooks for the professors leading it today, as well as the journals for the students on the trip. The journals are pretty classy-looking, if I do say so myself. They're in white folders with see-through plastic covers, and each one has the person's name on the front. There's a picture of a one of the traditional double-decker buses passing Big Ben, and all the writing is in Copperplate Gothic Black, and it just looks REALLY neat! I continued using that font for all the titles on the inside, and it just pulled together really beautifully. Tomorrow I've got to go into work for just a bit in the afternoon, make sure the ag dome is all locked up for spring break (take out the trash, mostly...Dan would not be happy if it stunk the place up) and count out everybody's money allotment. We're letting them have roughly $100, in a mix of pounds and euros. I said something about playing blackjack in the airport and Donn was really quick to say that wasn't going to be allowed. I would like to point out, I meant with Skittles, not actual money (although now that you mention it...).

And tomorrow I get to PACK!!!! I love packing things. Don't ask me why. And I have a really cool idea for making my suitcase easier to see, but I won't mention it. I'll post a picture tomorrow, maybe.

As for the "some tea with your sugar" title...lately, I've taken to attempting to make tea in the little pitcher that's actually meant to filter water. I think I'm going to give up, because I can't get the water hot enough and in a large enough quantity, but that's another story. Anyway, the latest attempt I made produced some tea that was really very, very weak, and out of desperation, in an attempt to make it taste better, I was adding some sugar. Well, I just added it to my cup, but I'd just refilled my little sugar-holder-thingy, and I'd apparently not screwed the lid on as well as I thought. PLOP it goes into my cup, and all the sugar starts to follow while I'm just staring at it for a second. I come back to my senses and pull it up, but then, unsure of how much sugar actually went in, I stuck the spoon in, swished it around, and tried it. I should have known it wasn't a good idea when the tea was a visibly lighter color (which is really saying something because it's nearly dark in here right now). But nope, being me, it went into my mouth anyway. And I started gagging, because it was worse than eating pure sugar.

All I want is a good cup of orange and black pekoe. Is that too much to ask? Apparently so.

And on a last note...still planning to save money for a new computer. I'm wondering about the quality of mine. I'm wondering if motherboard issues could be causing my problems. If it is the motherboard, it probably won't really be worthwhile to repair it, because while it was a nice computer three years ago, it is an underpowered, outdated one now. Sigh. I do like my nice laptop skin. But unfortunately, my aged, arthritic computer is struggling to keep up with what younger computers could do in an instant. The processor speed is often maxed out (the new RAM isn't helping) and it's having difficulty doing things that used to be simple. Even as I type this, it tends to lag two or three characters behind. I was trying to play the game "Escape The Museum" a few minutes ago but gave up because it was so slow. Maybe I can steal some of the twins' baby-sitting jobs this summer and earn some extra money towards it.