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Tuesday September 25th 2012, 6:33 pm

Prepping for travel is always such a daunting thing, and I’m sure many can relate to that sense of frazzled slipping of mind that occurs while needing to gear up for battle with the inevitable new sights and sounds. We’re about to leave for Morrison Con, conventions are trickiest for me as I always have a dual sense of anticipation and trepidation. And it always seems to be harder to keep my mind clear enough when doing this activity half tired from work. Lugging out the travel bags from the deep shady recesses of the walk in closet always gets the cats overly curious, and they know full well what they mean, that we’ll be out of the house for a while and they get to deal with the house-sitter. They really don’t like it and get a bit edgy, wanting to get in the middle of everything. Thats the part we hate the most, is knowing we’re leaving them alone, they get separation anxiety, so we feel like we’re being bad parents when we have to go. Rummaging through the office getting portfolios in order, which can be surprisingly tedious, but I tend to get caught up going into analyzation mode while shifting art around, sadly I get lost for a bit. Loading drawing tools, paper, pencil sharpener, all neatly enough into a travel work case. Sorting and packing, making choices of clothes to bring, never want to be unsatisfied with wardrobe when traveling, but at the same time it needs to be easy. And I always feel like I’m forgetting something, triple checking every pocket for the essentials, mustn’t forget the underwear, that would be bad. But I hate that feeling that I’m going to forget something, something important, I’ve done that before. One time I forgot plane tickets to catch a flight in another city, had to turn around after forty-five minutes when it dawned on my forgetful little brain, I wasn’t popular that day. We’ve also left the garage door open, having to call a friend to close it for us, ridiculous. It’d be funny if it didn’t make us a bit paranoid. The goods stand ready by the door making that symbolic statement of imminent adventure now that I’ve managed to squeeze out a paragraph about packing. I’m sure your day just wouldn’t be complete without it.

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