I leave for a beach holiday on Monday morning.  I'm unlikely to pack tomorrow evening after Ro's birthday party, and most of tomorrow morning is likely to be taken up with grocery shopping for the trip and helping Ro get ready for her party.  But it's muggy and I'm tired, and I really don't think I should be expected to do anything more demanding than faff around online, sitting in front of the fan. 

Besides, I'm unwilling to confront the fact that I have no suitable luggage for a short-ish trip.  For an overnight, my backpack suits just fine, and I have two monster suitcases suitable for moving or extended trips, and one really good piece of luggage that has survived many a beating since my graduation from college - possibly the best graduation present I got.  It's my lucky suitcase - it has failed to arrive with me on several occasions, but has never outright disappeared.  Not that I've ever lost any of my luggage, but it feels fortunate that there's only one piece that occasionally doesn't arrive on time, yet always arrives in the end (and I'm very sad that it seems to be approaching the end of its useful life).  But that one's more of a 10-days-to-2-weeks bag.  I'm going to be gone for a week, at most.  So I have to decide whether to turn up looking ridiculous with one outrageously oversized bag, or looking ridiculously improvisational with my backpack and several small tote bags.  

I also do not feel up to making decisions about which shoes to take.  By the time I pack flip-flops for the beach and sneakers for exercise, I'm already up to 2 pairs of shoes for less than a week, and I really don't see how I'm going to get away without at least two pairs of sandals, unless I leave all my fun pairs behind, and who wants to be without fun shoes on holiday?  I'm going to be mocked if I turn up with four pairs of shoes, I just know it.  And it wouldn't be undeserved.  But I dislike being without multiple footwear options.  

Blah blah blah petty concerns of the grossly overprivileged.  If you've made it this far, you may collect your reward in the form of a picture of the Twelve Apostles, from my trip down the Great Ocean Road with my parents and our gracious chauffeur, GSBoy, last month.  Mom and I were mesmerized by the colors in the water, and its incredible clarity.  This photo doesn't quite capture the intense bottle-blue quality of the water just behind the breakers, but it comes closest of any of the pictures I took.  

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