Reporting in.
To preface this (as I sometimes do) with something that will seem largely tangential, I've long had this... problem with points in time when breaks from work end, be it after a holiday or a vacation or even on most Sunday nights. It may or may not be a sign that I'm not good at handling changes in routine, but basically when I get the chance to shrug off the usual down-at-9-up-at-4 rigor of sleep I do so gleefully, and when it comes time to get back into it there's usually some difficulty. Going to bed when I feel like it and waking when I feel like it is natural and easy, doing both on a schedule is not and, well, not. Something like that.
So to keep things short, my misgivings about this weekend trip were quite unnecessary. The time was good, so was the food, and my brothers and I got to climb all the damn hell over some high cliff ledges and just ~dare~ something to crumble or slip and send us hurtling hundreds of feet to certain squishy doom. I need to go there again - I haven't had that much fun in ages, looking for handholds amid tree roots and weathered sandstone while ascending a hundred feet of steep rock. The house was nice too, and while the climbing has left me without ANY desire to move, getting to sleep in my own bed again left me feeling better rested than I've been for a bit. The trip really did de-stress me, maybe moreso or in a different way than usual. Pretty cool.
Today and tomorrow will be spent catching up on things like laundry and shopping and stuff. Three weeks to turkey break, a month after that is the Big Two holidays. The end of the year is starting to look up.
Peace.
So to keep things short, my misgivings about this weekend trip were quite unnecessary. The time was good, so was the food, and my brothers and I got to climb all the damn hell over some high cliff ledges and just ~dare~ something to crumble or slip and send us hurtling hundreds of feet to certain squishy doom. I need to go there again - I haven't had that much fun in ages, looking for handholds amid tree roots and weathered sandstone while ascending a hundred feet of steep rock. The house was nice too, and while the climbing has left me without ANY desire to move, getting to sleep in my own bed again left me feeling better rested than I've been for a bit. The trip really did de-stress me, maybe moreso or in a different way than usual. Pretty cool.
Today and tomorrow will be spent catching up on things like laundry and shopping and stuff. Three weeks to turkey break, a month after that is the Big Two holidays. The end of the year is starting to look up.
Peace.