holidaze...
...are upon us again...
nine - count 'em NINE - days off consecutive for thanksgiving. and i think i have more than that for Xmas.
not feeling particularly festive, but, i think i might rent a car and drive to california around the thanksgiving days. a friend in oakland, a few in san fran, and another in berkeley - covers NoCal. and a few in LA. could kill 9 days. or 9 days could kill me.
Xmas is something else. the whole damnfamily expecting me in Atlanta, but, they are feuding and want me to choose who i'll stay with. this happens every few years or so - a feud - so i avoid them altogether.
i'd love to go back to chicago for Xmas - see some real winter and get some real cold. and wisconsin. but not really anyone i'd feel comfortable imposing on, aside from Lexie, and i imposed on her last winter, so...
i've been watching the WGN-9 (chicago) news on cable lately, and still feel - - not homesick cuz i only lived there approx 8 years - - but i miss it a lot. if i had the same opportunity to move there, that brought me to portland, meaning: a job lined up, relocation expenses, a home-search trip in advance - - i think i'd leave skid-marks down SW 6th ave.
thing is - the way i lived in chicago is not that much different than how i live here, as far as what i do day to day. but somehow my apathy and total lack of enthusiasm for anything aside from music, drinking, and questionnable porn was more tolerable to ME, there. here, i just feel like a loser.
nine - count 'em NINE - days off consecutive for thanksgiving. and i think i have more than that for Xmas.
not feeling particularly festive, but, i think i might rent a car and drive to california around the thanksgiving days. a friend in oakland, a few in san fran, and another in berkeley - covers NoCal. and a few in LA. could kill 9 days. or 9 days could kill me.
Xmas is something else. the whole damnfamily expecting me in Atlanta, but, they are feuding and want me to choose who i'll stay with. this happens every few years or so - a feud - so i avoid them altogether.
i'd love to go back to chicago for Xmas - see some real winter and get some real cold. and wisconsin. but not really anyone i'd feel comfortable imposing on, aside from Lexie, and i imposed on her last winter, so...
i've been watching the WGN-9 (chicago) news on cable lately, and still feel - - not homesick cuz i only lived there approx 8 years - - but i miss it a lot. if i had the same opportunity to move there, that brought me to portland, meaning: a job lined up, relocation expenses, a home-search trip in advance - - i think i'd leave skid-marks down SW 6th ave.
thing is - the way i lived in chicago is not that much different than how i live here, as far as what i do day to day. but somehow my apathy and total lack of enthusiasm for anything aside from music, drinking, and questionnable porn was more tolerable to ME, there. here, i just feel like a loser.