24 hours to go

Only 24 hours until I have to leave. It feels odd. This will be the first time I'm going abroad on my own.

I packed my bags already, so I could spend Saturday without worrying about that. The two backpacks I'm taking are pretty much packed full, weight-wise I could take more stuff, but the bags can't hold any more :P

I was going to take both my winter shoes and sneakers with me, but decided to check the weather and a live webcam in King's Lynn. The weather doesn't even go below 0 Celsius and there's no snow. I'm leaving winter stuff home.

I knew something would not go according to plan, though. My phone is still being repaired. I hoped it would be back by Friday, but knowing my luck that did not happen. This means I need to save important documents to my tablet so that I can access them offline. I also had to update my music collection on the tablet, too, since that 850+ song collection I managed to gather on Apple Music won't entertain me with the phone not being here...

So I spent about six hours going through some music lists and song lists of 90s Eurodance compilations (nostalgia seems to be the word of the day) and listening to songs I'd almost forgotten already.

I have to try and shift my sleep cycle a little, since I have to leave at 3 am tomorrow, and by my calculations the entire trip from home to my ultimate destination will take, altogether, 11 hours, at least.

I'm excited, nervous, a little sad and a bit pissed off.
Excited to be going on this trip on my own, sort of. Nervous because I am going on my own. A little sad because I'm going to miss my partner and our cat. And a bit pissed off because I don't have my phone and have to rely on open wifi connections to keep contact with my family, to connect to Google Maps if necessary and to write these entries and I have to take pictures with this 7" device. I really hope the phone gets back by Monday, so I might get it by the end of the first week when my partner sends it to me...

I'm tired and getting cranky again, the G&T is starting to wear off :P better return to watching QI, maybe thst will calm me down a bit.