What I'm Reading This Week #34
Hello you sassy beast! Ready for another flip flappin' fantastic weekend? Yes indeedy, Ally Sheedy. It's been a week of working ahead for me as I try to work on ideas for holiday posts. I know, no one is ready for Christmas but spit balling stuff is actually getting me excited for the season. I like to try to give myself the month of December off from writing new posts (except updating weekly happenings) so all I have to do is respond if needed. It lets me take a little mental break during the holidays to try to enjoy what I can then hop back into the new year hopefully rested and ready to roll. We did book our 30th anniversary trip, which is the same one we had to cancel this year and of course got travel insurance. It's just nice to have something to hopefully look forward to and it makes you go "where the heck did 4 1/2 years go?" because it seems like just yesterday we were celebrating our 25th. Do people even celebrate their 30t...
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.