Somewhere between panic and frenetic excitment

I could do my own insurance commercial. You know those commercials where there is a frazzled-looking someone talking into the camera saying, "You know that place between ____________ and ________________? I'm so there." And they're usually so clever, like the girl sitting in the airport who looks like she hasn't done her hair in more than 19 hours and has Sock-Foot rubbing his feet all over her shoulder and saying, "You know that place where your inbox is overflowing and you haven't had a day off since the third grade? Yeah, I'm there."

Yeah, you know that place between frenzied excitement and absolute panic that you've forgotten something, will forget something or left something completely undone??? Yeah, I'm so there.

I leave for the Mediterranean tomorrow morning. In just 14.56 hrs my boyfriend will be picking me up and heading over to hitch a ride with his sister to the airport, from whence we shall all embark on a long flight to Barcelona to begin 11 days of fun-filled travel. Excited? Oh, yeah.

However, I'm not totally packed, I've still been running errands for things I need, and I think my list that I made is out-dated by several light-bulb moments of, "Oh, I better pack this." I'm afraid I've forgotten to pre-register or pre-book or pre-check-in, and when I go to board a plane or boat they will say, "Sorry, you can't," and I will be left looking like a little lost soul while everyone takes off for places foreign. Add to this the LOOONNNGGGG list of things I am supposed to have done before I leave and.... Experiencing "a sudden overwhelming fear, with or without cause, that produces hysterical, even irrational behavior"??? Maybe just a little. ( http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/panic)

It is all part of the pre-trip hysteria that is both fun and frantic. Believe me, as soon as I am actually on the plane out of Kansas city, I'll be fine.