I'm back and I did make it to BOS on the day I wanted even though I had to reroute myself and got in at midnight. Return nonstops were a no-go so I rerouted and then rerouted again the night before through PDX. AS flight PDX-PHX went from decent to packed during my actual flight out of BOS so I looked around and managed to find space on WN (thanks y'all) home only to find out that 4 nonrevs actually made that packed flight after all! No matter, I got home all in one day so I'll take it.