I needed that

Camping was great. Having just gotten over a cold made my energy level a little low, and I was kind of an old fat lady among spry twenty-somethings who hiked circles around my big bottom, but I still had a great time. We had a beautiful campsite (this was at Colorado Bend State Park) and perfect weather, and were practically over-run with wildlife- not just ants and squirrels and crap, but possums and armadillos and raccoons! Okay, I get they're a nuisance, but I'm still citified enough that seeing wildlife beyond pigeons and feral cats remains amazing and cool. Plus there were deer. I love watching deer do anything. I had no phone service all weekend!

It was just what the doctor ordered. I just wish I had a couple of more days of weekend to ease back into mundania. I got stressed over some stuff this evening, but it was helped by the news I got when I logged in to my state job- I only have to work one day over the holidays, and that's the day I most love to work in all the world, the day after Thanksgiving (I'm not being sarcastic; work is the best place to escape depressing pre-holiday consumer insanity). So I'll be able to go to the UT-A&M game with JD on Thanksgiving, and probably go see my dad for Christmas? I dunno, maybe I'll just hole up and go see him in January instead; none of us really give a rat's behind about the holiday itself, and his practical streak will appreciate the not-traveling-during-the-holidays thing.

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Oh, check out the lyrics to this delightfully sappy song that so wonderfully captures that freshly-in-love feeling; awwww. I've been on both sides of this one.

"Everything Else Disappears" Sister Hazel
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( pictures from the camping trip )