Nashville!
I have been visiting the Sister since Saturday, in Nashville, and it has been SO nice. I do a lot of the same things as I do at home, but now I do them at my sister's house and have two dogs (one lovely, one dumb) and a cat (who I am convinced is my soulmate) and my sister and brother-in-law around to keep me company. (During the day it's just me and the animals, though.) Also, the people here are SANE. That's such a nice change of pace from my neurotic mother.
For instance, I had been here for just a couple of days and had yet to use the internets because I did not know the code.
I asked my sister what it was and she was like "I dunno…ask Mr. Husband." He was out at the time, so I popped the laptop open and started to work on my two Supernatural stories in the works.
A few hours later, my brother-in-law was back and settled and everything so I said, "hey, what's the code for the internet?"
My sister looked so super shocked and said, "oh, yeah!" and then, "what have you been doing?"
My natural response to a question like this is, "NOTHING!" Of course, that's because when I stay with my mom (as I am for the summer) everything has just a slight edge of accusation to it and she is constantly looking over my shoulder to see what I am doing. (It's not like I do illicit things, but still…it's the principle of the matter.)
For my slight over-reaction I receive blank stares from the two of them, until I continue. "I mean, I…write…some…I was doing that." (Read: I have one shoot-myself-in-the-face-epically-long West Wing fic that I am attempting to revive after several YEARS, one Dark Angel fic that I have no idea what the hell is going to happen in, and two Supernatural fics that I am working on/hoping to post super soon.)
They were both still sufficiently confused, but he gave me the code and I was able to finally, FINALLY calm the Facebook withdrawal jitters.
I have been out of the house, though. Today, I went (seemingly) all over creation. I visited the area of town where VanderbiltUniversity is (also the super-trendy music district), West End and Hillsboro. It was good, and I saw the Nashville replica of the Parthenon, which is actually pretty cool and not as cheesy as it sounds. It is a full scale replica of the one in Greece and has a very lovely Athena inside the upper level.
I also went around the Vanderbilt campus where my sister works, which was SUPER lovely. *sigh* I wish my college were as pretty. Did you know it is ALSO an arboretum? I sure didn't!
After a productive lunch with my sister (yay for figuring out What's Next), I was pretty tired of walking and I decided to go chill at a famous coffee house where many a music industry person has been spotted (Ben Folds, anyone?). I hate coffee, and yet, I actually liked what I got. It was this chocolate-caramel thing that was SO good. Also, I got to read some of my book, The Mercy of Thin Air by Ronlyn Domingue (VERY worthwhile read so far). I ate some wonderful salmon for dinner with fresh corn, cucumber, and feta salad which was delicious and I shall be making when I have my kitchen to work with!
All in all, been a pretty good vacation so far. We're headed to the in-laws house in Alabama tomorrow and will be taking the route that goes through Chattanooga and Atlanta, which I am excited to see. ALSO, we're eating breakfast at the Pancake Pantry, which is like, super-famous in the world of breakfast foods.
For instance, I had been here for just a couple of days and had yet to use the internets because I did not know the code.
I asked my sister what it was and she was like "I dunno…ask Mr. Husband." He was out at the time, so I popped the laptop open and started to work on my two Supernatural stories in the works.
A few hours later, my brother-in-law was back and settled and everything so I said, "hey, what's the code for the internet?"
My sister looked so super shocked and said, "oh, yeah!" and then, "what have you been doing?"
My natural response to a question like this is, "NOTHING!" Of course, that's because when I stay with my mom (as I am for the summer) everything has just a slight edge of accusation to it and she is constantly looking over my shoulder to see what I am doing. (It's not like I do illicit things, but still…it's the principle of the matter.)
For my slight over-reaction I receive blank stares from the two of them, until I continue. "I mean, I…write…some…I was doing that." (Read: I have one shoot-myself-in-the-face-epically-long West Wing fic that I am attempting to revive after several YEARS, one Dark Angel fic that I have no idea what the hell is going to happen in, and two Supernatural fics that I am working on/hoping to post super soon.)
They were both still sufficiently confused, but he gave me the code and I was able to finally, FINALLY calm the Facebook withdrawal jitters.
I have been out of the house, though. Today, I went (seemingly) all over creation. I visited the area of town where VanderbiltUniversity is (also the super-trendy music district), West End and Hillsboro. It was good, and I saw the Nashville replica of the Parthenon, which is actually pretty cool and not as cheesy as it sounds. It is a full scale replica of the one in Greece and has a very lovely Athena inside the upper level.
I also went around the Vanderbilt campus where my sister works, which was SUPER lovely. *sigh* I wish my college were as pretty. Did you know it is ALSO an arboretum? I sure didn't!
After a productive lunch with my sister (yay for figuring out What's Next), I was pretty tired of walking and I decided to go chill at a famous coffee house where many a music industry person has been spotted (Ben Folds, anyone?). I hate coffee, and yet, I actually liked what I got. It was this chocolate-caramel thing that was SO good. Also, I got to read some of my book, The Mercy of Thin Air by Ronlyn Domingue (VERY worthwhile read so far). I ate some wonderful salmon for dinner with fresh corn, cucumber, and feta salad which was delicious and I shall be making when I have my kitchen to work with!
All in all, been a pretty good vacation so far. We're headed to the in-laws house in Alabama tomorrow and will be taking the route that goes through Chattanooga and Atlanta, which I am excited to see. ALSO, we're eating breakfast at the Pancake Pantry, which is like, super-famous in the world of breakfast foods.