1. Call my mother.
I talked to her this afternoon and asked her if she was going to come watch me. She went from a normal tone to nearly crying.

2. Get a craving for Captain Morgan.
I posted on Facebook that I was going have to sail with the Captain on Saturday night. My instructor posted, “Not if you’re finishing up your jumps Sunday morning.”  —sigh.   I am going to be jumping 5 jumps this weekend…without anyone attached to me.

3. Trip coming in the front door.
I have to land my chute and people are trusting me to land safely with nothing more than a glorified flag!  You people have more faith in me than deserved!

4. Watch other AFF videos that have my instructor in them. I now know EXACTLY what I am going to go through and my instructors roll in the whole thing.

5.  Turn on the news and see “Parachute Malfunction’ as the headlining story.

So tomorrow is the big day. Everything has been leading up to this weekend and I am FINALLY starting to get nervous.  John is in Lost Prairie for a boogie (insane amount of skydivers doing an insane amount of jumping for 2 solid weeks) and if I didn’t know he had already planned to go, I would think he was going so he wouldn’t be worried for me as I go through this.  I had already planned to do this before I got back in contact with him, which gives him a little peace of mind.  He also introduced me to my instructor when I explained to him exactly what I was looking for in a private instructor.
“Someone no shit. I am someone who can laugh and joke about nearly everything. I want someone that is going to be nothing but business while he is training me.  We can joke AFTER he signs me off. ”  He knew exactly the type of person that would fit my needs.
He was right.  I saw my instructor laughing with some other jumpers and was joking around. I had not seen that side of him yet. That is going to be earned from him!
After work today I went and cut 5 inches of hair from my head. It feels better, but it going to take some getting use to.

Well peeps. I need to go to bed. I get up at 6:00am and go eat breakfast so I don’t pass out at 8:30am when I start this crazy new chapter in my life.

“An Ive made up my mind,
I ain’t wasting no more time….and here I go again on my own”