Friday, September 01, 2017

terra incognito

I meant to go to bed ages ago (of course, as usual, etc.). Today was pretty decent, all in all - I spent some quality time journaling over my coffee this morning, which is a much better way to get my day started than reading twitter for an hour. I also ate some lunch and dealt with some random tasks, and then I helped my mom with some volunteer stuff (related to the round barn, which required several trips and some silliness, but it was all done without either of us breaking our necks on a ladder, so that was lucky).

After that, I was kind of wiped out, so I lazed about in the kitchen for longer than planned, and then came downstairs and took an even-more-unplanned nap. Then I showered and did some work around my room - I'm driving back to Denver next week and I'm planning to take a lot of stuff with me, and I need to start organizing now so that I can load my car more effectively.

But I couldn't work forever - I had supper plans with Hannah (a friend from high school who is also my distant cousin). We were going to meet in town, since Ludlow's (a restaurant) had been closed for a few months and just reopened under new ownership this week - but when we got there, it was totally packed and people were waiting outside. This never happens, but it's good to see they're opening well. So, we drove to Seymour instead - this was a total backtrack for Hannah, but this is the price you have to pay in an area where the next closest restaurant is fifteen miles away (no joke: for several months, the nearest place my parents could go out to eat was fifteen miles away).

Luckily, fifteen miles around here is reliably 15-20min depending on whether you're taking pavement or gravel, so getting there was easy. So we ate dinner and talked for quite awhile - it was probably better that we went to Seymour since we wouldn't have been able to linger at our table at Ludlow's. It was great to see her, as usual, and also great to say hi to the taxidermied deer heads on the walls.

And now, I am desperate for sleep - goodnight!

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