"Say ya to da U.P., eh?"
There are ants crawling all over my desk. Ick! Fucking Cap. The box of cereal bearing my name that elderly fuck brought me a few weeks ago appears to have become infested with sugar ants. Curses! I should have known it was just a Trojan horse from the insects! Solid gold motherfucking weekend, indeed.
Phew. Okay. Moving right along. So the hub and I have only been back from the mountains for a month and we're already bemoaning our lack of vacation opportunities on the horizon. I don't think I can survive without a holiday to look forward to, people, I really can't. (f_o_n_y, you are going to Alaska, and I am going mad with envy.) His current (and oft-recurring) obsession is the upper peninsula of Michigan, and thus we've been tossing around the idea of going there for a week in the fall, just in time to see all the blazing-bright autumn foliage changing color. The Fall Leaf Change is something I desperately miss here in the ass-hot tropics, and I haven't really gotten to enjoy it since I moved away from Missouri (13 years ago!).
We're supposed to be saving up our money and paying off all our credit card bills and generally being Good so's that we can be in the best possible position when we move to NC. But, uhm, responsibility is like totally boring, and who knows how long it will be after we move that we even have the money to travel much at all anyway, so... we may just go temporarily insane (scratch that, temporarily un-grown-up) and have to make haste to Lake Superior. Who could NOT be convinced by these pictures?
This one looks like a freaking watercolor painting designed to make Ohioans (who are apparently universally obsessed with lighthouses) poop themselves.
I can't resist beautiful waterfalls. Ever.
But this one is my absolute favorite.
Can you tell I love the landscape porn?? Gawd. I have a co-worker who's moving there to become an official Yooper next month (a Mormon, no less, and his knocked-up wife and kid), and I'm pretty jealous... it would almost be worth the 8 months of bitter, tooth-aching cold just for a few months of THAT. Oh, and minus the swarms of angry biting black flies, I guess. :)
Phew. Okay. Moving right along. So the hub and I have only been back from the mountains for a month and we're already bemoaning our lack of vacation opportunities on the horizon. I don't think I can survive without a holiday to look forward to, people, I really can't. (f_o_n_y, you are going to Alaska, and I am going mad with envy.) His current (and oft-recurring) obsession is the upper peninsula of Michigan, and thus we've been tossing around the idea of going there for a week in the fall, just in time to see all the blazing-bright autumn foliage changing color. The Fall Leaf Change is something I desperately miss here in the ass-hot tropics, and I haven't really gotten to enjoy it since I moved away from Missouri (13 years ago!).
We're supposed to be saving up our money and paying off all our credit card bills and generally being Good so's that we can be in the best possible position when we move to NC. But, uhm, responsibility is like totally boring, and who knows how long it will be after we move that we even have the money to travel much at all anyway, so... we may just go temporarily insane (scratch that, temporarily un-grown-up) and have to make haste to Lake Superior. Who could NOT be convinced by these pictures?
This one looks like a freaking watercolor painting designed to make Ohioans (who are apparently universally obsessed with lighthouses) poop themselves.
I can't resist beautiful waterfalls. Ever.
But this one is my absolute favorite.
Can you tell I love the landscape porn?? Gawd. I have a co-worker who's moving there to become an official Yooper next month (a Mormon, no less, and his knocked-up wife and kid), and I'm pretty jealous... it would almost be worth the 8 months of bitter, tooth-aching cold just for a few months of THAT. Oh, and minus the swarms of angry biting black flies, I guess. :)