What I'm Reading This Week #27
Happy Friday everyone! I hope you've got the day off to enjoy. I would really appreciate the weather dialing it back from Satan's taint to dryish heat please. I'm not even asking for much. Like 83 degrees would make me happy at this point but there's no end in sight to the 90's. The Mr and I have both been plagued with migraines this week. He had a two day event and I had an ocular migraine which is just so crappy to deal with since you can't read or do anything until your vision isn't screwed up. I got to wait on hold for an hour Tuesday with the state tax department so I decided to sand and prime the newel post while listening to hold music designed to make you hang up. To quote Bugs Bunny "he don't know me vewy well, do he?" I got that squared away and later went out between pop up storms to deadhead some zinnias which you may have seen in Wednesday's post. Speaking of Wednesday, it was a busy day in the ga...
We've been fortunate enough to have been to many places that make it easy to go back to in my mind. Only real problem I have is choosing which one at any given time, but that's a good problem to have.
ReplyDeleteMine is the same one I use for the EMDR stuff because it's my "happy place" and that's the North Woods of Wisconsin (hence Woodsy). I have never felt more at peace and pure joy than up there. I have memories from being young, as well las finding the same cabin 13 years later with my hubs, to our own vacations up there with one of our dogs throughout the years. There is a certain scent up there, along with the sandy grass that makes a soft 'thud' sound when you walk because it's so packed down, that I just love. The smell of pine is like no other (dare I say even more than Colorado, but truth be told, I spent more time up north than out west), and when I can recall it in my mind, I'm installing soothed. And bald eagles galore, which just fascinate me. That's my happy place through and through.
ReplyDeleteWe go cabin camping at a mountain lake every summer. It's nothing fancy, but it super soothing to me. I have a picture of the lake as my phone wallpaper so I can look at it any time I want. Where I live is brown and dry except for like 3 days in the spring. That leaves me craving green - anytime I go places with lots of green trees I just feel myself relax. Up there it's all green, smells of campfire smoke & pine needles, and is 10-15 degrees cooler than home and that makes it just about perfect.
ReplyDeleteMy other "vacation" is always a book. I always have a book I'm reading (often 2-3 books at the same time) and all it takes is to open the book and slip into another locale for a quick vacation.