Things I'm loving and hating about Milan right now

• HATE the fact that I can't get the free international long distance passcode/pin to work from the hotel room phone.
• HATING Sprint who promised that my cell phone would work here and it isn't.
• LOVE Franco the hotel concierge, Swisscom operator Franciso, and the hot guy in the blue shirt at the Ristorante Avenna.
• Loving the randomly graphic phone sex commercials on Italian tv.
• Hate the fact that the map we had totally mispresented where our hotel was from the subway. I was hot and cranky by the time we got there.
• Love the nicely appointed room with the nice firm beds at the Hotel Milea Milano.
• Love that Todd and I each arrived safe and without the swine flu.
• LOVE BEING AWAY FROM THE TROUBLES of home.

Parlez vous FRAZZLED?

I'm off to France and Italy in less than 36 hours and I'm totally not ready. No packing has been started, no cleaning has been done, not even any lists made. PATHETIC.
Uggh, I've got to get my act together. I'm online right now supposedly paying bills. Instead I'm sitting around procrastinating and watching cheesy Hallmark channel movies where Haylie freakin' Duff is playing a frontier doctor in the 1880s. WTF?

New York New York, a hell of a town...

After surviving one of the worse descents I've ever experienced on a plane, I arrived in NY's Penn Station yesterday evening, spit out of the NJ rail system with a mass of people. Some like me, coming from Newark Int'l airport; others on their way to the Rangers game at MSG; still others maybe on their way home from seeing relatives in Jersey.

I'm here at the start of my two week plan to "relax" and "do things for me". The plan was to go away for a week, and then spend a week at home doing a sort of stay-cation. So far I already feel more relaxed so maybe it's working. Looking forward to catching up with old friends and not having a schedule for once. Let's see if "not having a plan" works out, or drives me insane.