greetings from Minnesota!
It turns out that my family changed the plan and then I think my mom and my brother both assumed the other had told me of the new itinerary, when in fact I had not been informed at all.
In summary, rather than Nick meeting me at the airport and me spending an afternoon and night in Minneapolis, Mom met me at the airport and we drove straight up to the lake. Nick will arrive on Saturday.
I am not complaining! Extra lake time is a good thing! But it was a little confusing, you know? *wry*
What I did yesterday was mostly snooze in the car en route to the airport, get a bit lost trying to find my way through the correct security checkpoint (Newark Airport currently suffers from highly inadequate signage), snooze and read on the plan, and chat and listen to a podcast en route to Cass Lake, and have really delicious homemade BLTs for dinner.
Then I slept about thirteen hours because I NEEDED SLEEP.
Today I have: read, forwarded work email to Mr. Geniality, sat on the dock to read some more, overheard part of an antiracism Zoom event Mom is attending, and read a bit more.
Tomorrow I may venture a hike. This evening, our plan is to tackle the 1000-piece Monet garden painting puzzle I brought. We got the edge put together last night (I had saved all the edge pieces in a separate bag, because that was the one part I managed to finish at home before life (and my lack of adequate table space) interfered), but the rest will be fiendishly difficult because Impressionist painting lacks the clear edges and shapes that one tends to rely upon when reconstructing a picture.
Tomorrow I may also venture some writing. I am hoping to get somewhere on a couple stories this week, since I won't have my job always in my face and I have also begged off from a bunch of church stuff for the very good reason that I am ON VACATION, dammit. I have already missed a Zoom meeting this evening and I feel no guilt whatsoever.
Vacation is nice that way. :) If you want to comment on this post, you can do so over here on Dreamwidth, where there are currently (
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In summary, rather than Nick meeting me at the airport and me spending an afternoon and night in Minneapolis, Mom met me at the airport and we drove straight up to the lake. Nick will arrive on Saturday.
I am not complaining! Extra lake time is a good thing! But it was a little confusing, you know? *wry*
What I did yesterday was mostly snooze in the car en route to the airport, get a bit lost trying to find my way through the correct security checkpoint (Newark Airport currently suffers from highly inadequate signage), snooze and read on the plan, and chat and listen to a podcast en route to Cass Lake, and have really delicious homemade BLTs for dinner.
Then I slept about thirteen hours because I NEEDED SLEEP.
Today I have: read, forwarded work email to Mr. Geniality, sat on the dock to read some more, overheard part of an antiracism Zoom event Mom is attending, and read a bit more.
Tomorrow I may venture a hike. This evening, our plan is to tackle the 1000-piece Monet garden painting puzzle I brought. We got the edge put together last night (I had saved all the edge pieces in a separate bag, because that was the one part I managed to finish at home before life (and my lack of adequate table space) interfered), but the rest will be fiendishly difficult because Impressionist painting lacks the clear edges and shapes that one tends to rely upon when reconstructing a picture.
Tomorrow I may also venture some writing. I am hoping to get somewhere on a couple stories this week, since I won't have my job always in my face and I have also begged off from a bunch of church stuff for the very good reason that I am ON VACATION, dammit. I have already missed a Zoom meeting this evening and I feel no guilt whatsoever.
Vacation is nice that way. :) If you want to comment on this post, you can do so over here on Dreamwidth, where there are currently (
comments)