Greetings to all fellow No-S’ers from the World Traveller Plus section of a certain airline (I believe it is the “World’s Favourite”) en route from London Gatwick to sunny Florida. Good news- I got an upgrade, yay! Bad news- the food options are the same, boo!
It is three and a half hours in to a nine-hour-ten-minute flight and already I am bored s**tless. I USED TO TRAVEL LIKE THIS ALL THE TIME. HOW DID I DO THIS????? Seriously. The ex-job involved travelling across the globe, and if I had a pound for each time that someone admired my “glamorous” job I would frankly never need to work again. I never really could explain to people that it wasn’t always “All That”; If someone could enlighten me as to which bit of the job- from the endless airport waiting/ boring flights/jet lag/dehydration/another city/hotel-by myself 80 per cent of the time is the glamorous part I’d thank you because I never really figured it out....OK, ok, it wasn’t all bad. Oh no. Some days, some places, did give me that “I LOVE my job today” moment and I am really pleased to have had the opportunity to see China, Singapore, India, the Middle East, and lots of Europe as well as the USA several times, and sometimes it did work to my advantage. For example it was really cool to meet my ex-boss Nancy (who worked in the UK on secondment managing me and others from the US) for dinner in Santa Monica for dinner as I was en route to Beijing... “just dropping by, are you around this evening? Off to China tomorrow”...but those days are a) over and b) it means I can get my life back, as there was no such thing as a routine in that job- and keeping in touch with family and friends was really hard, so I can at least do that now. The other thing of course was that I went from being a super-fit 6 days a week exerciser to an occasional gym user, and by the end of year one I had gained 20 pounds, which I got off through wising up to the fact that exercise was a much needed part of my life and that I also needed to try and offset the internally polluting effects of time zone changes, stress and eating differently. I got the weight off in time for my wedding in 2007 but since then have gone up and down by ten pounds or so, depending on my exercise and stress levels, as I respond to stress by eating- or have done in the past!
Which brings me on to airline food and travel-day eating. Does anyone else have a major problem with this? I did drop a note on the Everyday Systems forum yesterday about whether it was bordering on the obsessive to bring food on board the plane, and given that most airline food is truly awful I decided to do just that – then forgot. So here I am, having had the delights of (very little) food as it was just crap- fatty and sugary, and today is an N day. Actually, the food on this particular airline is considerably better than most others I have tried, and believe me, I have tried a few in my time. I could have organised a low-fat meal but didn’t, as they are soooooo disgusting, and I am trying to make each meal “count” now. So much for that idea!
The other potential trap is that boredom period when you have exhausted the Duty Free shopping and there is still an hour or so to go before boarding. Cafes and restaurants abound. I would say that the sensible thing to do is eat beforehand, but I don’t yet trust myself to not eat the airline meal as well! Hopefully that will change as I get in to this programme.
Five hours to go......ho hum
SusieB
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