This happens every year. I know the holiday break is around the corner and yet I still never get my ticket until 2-4 weeks before I fly out. I was determined to not let that happen this year. I was determined to at least buy tickets 6 weeks in advance. That I did! The only thing is I'm flying home Christmas Day at 6AM. Jesus Christ! That's early...The thing with buying tickets so late is that I always end up paying an arm and a leg to fly home. I send out disclaimers to my family that their gift me their oldest son coming home to visit them. That's right, I'm the muthaeffing present.
I love Christmas, I'm not religious and I don't really care for holidays in general, but I really love Christmas (probably because I was never stabbed on that day). There's just something about snow and Mariah Carey. There's something about seeing people's faces when they get unwrap presents (I don't really care for presents either). It's just a wonderful time of the year. I mean, even wash up actors and actresses, or starlettes who want to become actresses get to be in made-for-tv holiday movies on the Hallmark Channel or Lifetime. Where else are you going to find movies with Freddie Prinze Jr or Brian Austin Green? Ashanti and Christina Milian has been known to make appearance in these also.
Ticket prices were no exception this year. I'm flying the morning of Christmas day and coming back on January 6th. I spent my first NYE in LA last year and was not too amused, so decided that it would just make sense to extend my trip home. Then there's that game you play with your PTO. Flying back on the 1st is expensive because everyone needs to get back on the 2nd and then the 2nd is Thursday, so most people will probably extend holiday by taking the 2nd and the 3rd off and fly back Saturday or Sunday which is still expensive, so that left me with Monday. I thought that taking 3 PTO days were worth the $300 savings as well as more time in NY. In the end of the day, it's not really value wise in terms of the sticker price of a PTO day, but you can't put a price tag on family time.
The one sad thing about flying in Christmas Day this year is I don't get to spend a Christmas Day tradition watching a movie and then heading to the Tick Tock Diner under the New Yorker Hotel after with my friend Angie. We both don't really care for Christmas, so we along with every other non-Christian go to the movies and the diners together. Last year we saw Les Mes. Now that's a feel good movie everyone should go see!
I think the more important point here is that I'm spending two weeks at home. I really need to figure out how I can make this work out. That's a long long time...
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