1999 - Part I (Kellisa's First 18 Years)

Lisa and I rarely purchase alcohol. We decided to buy a bottle of champagne on the last day of 1998. Before checking out, Lisa decided that she wanted to purchase a pregnancy test to be sure she wasn’t pregnant before taking her two sips of champagne to ring in 1999.

 

After many years of countless negative results, I failed to get excited while Lisa went through the process of completing the test. To our shock and excitement, the test came back positive. It was after 10pm on New Year’s Eve, but we wanted to be 100% sure before we got too excited. Lisa found a clinic open and we raced to have another test completed.

 

A Personal Wheelchair User's Experience Flying Southwest Airlines with Assigned Seats

SMF-AUS-MCI

May 9, 2026

MCI-PHX-SMF

May 15, 2026

 

Kellisa flew four segments last week on Southwest Airlines. This was her first trip since Southwest changed their seating policy to assigned seats. Kellisa has flown Southwest almost exclusively over the past 20 years. The only exceptions were trips to Hawaii and Alaska before Southwest started flying to the 49th and 50th states and one trip to Billings.