Bought Some New Luggage and Some Visa Delays

Well, I'd checked before to see what was up and how to apply for a visa, but the cosulate pages differed, so I didn't think much of it over the past two weeks. It seems you do need to submit your official sealed transcripts to the consulate. Who knew? So I don't have a copy of them, but emailed TWU about it and should be able to run up there and pick them up tomorrow morning and from there I can overnight it to Houston and after Houston recieves it, the processing time is 2-5 days with an interview. Add to this another day for overnight processing and thats 3-6 days from Friday.

I'd been planning on leaving the 21st, but am doubting that at this point. The thing is that I don't know what sort of hurry the school is in and whether they would want me to fly on Saturday or Sunday with the resulting additional costs. I was really liking this flight because it was direct and I'm not sure if the school will pay for a direct flight when one with connections costs $200 less. Hmmm, I do worry about Luna, she's a whipper snapper alright and I'd like to minimize the time she must stay in the kennel. Already with the direct flight, she would be in the kennel 19 hours. The cheapest flight would have her in the kennel for 23 hours. I don't mind this more me, but I worry for her. I hope the vet can suggest something I can give her to keep her calm and what about water? I know the baggage area is climate controlled, but should I put water in the crate since I know water helps them regulate body temp and stuff. Decisions, decisions.

Now a benefit of not leaving for a further 4 days is that I would have more time to get ready to leave and redistribute stuff and so on. Hmmm. Balance is good I suppose. The benefit of the consulate interview is that I get to go down to Houston and see my nephew one last time and get another 'one last' road trip.

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So Garden Ridge sells luggage. Who'd a'thunk it? The largest sold for $30, then $25, and $20. I got a matching set of black luggage with white polka dots. Yes, its hopelessly trendy, but I happen to like polka dots, so I figure that's okay.

I got the 28 inch, and 26 inch bags for check in. I know that for Korean Air, your luggage must be smaller than 107 inches together. I thought about getting 2 of the big ones, but that was 112 inches. Bummer. Now that I'm no longer sure what company I'm flying with, I can't count on any one specific thing. I did get the 19 inch carry on bag that should go up in the area above the seats and a small laptop bag that will go in front of me. Either that or whatever else I decide to do.

So I was going to go an entire year without sewing, then I saw a picture of a street market selling cloth and changed my mind pretty quickly. I picked up the Janome Sew Mini and its so cute. I kida want to mod it pink before I leave in honor of the Kenmore Mini Ultra that is no longer sold :(, but that looked cute and on par with the Janome, except a little bigger.

Cool, so I also picked up some generic Airborne and Germ MD in honor of Korea, and a 4 month supply of Claritin since that should be enough. I don't usually use it for more than a couple of weeks at a time and I'm hoping I'll only need a couple of months worth for Korea. I also picked up some space saver bags and some earplugs and eyeshades and some allergy eye drops. Hmm, so I went shopping last night and spent a lot of money. But I want to be prepared and will be. :)