idle musings

Home again.

Camping was great fun. Aside from a couple on the other side of the campground, we were the only campers. We had two deer walk through our campsite, only about 5 feet away from me. I could have almost reached out and patted them. We had a rascally raccoon who came to rustle around the first evening when we were still up, playing cards. He freaked us out because we could hear noises by the tent but couldn’t see anything outside of the lantern’s circle of light. And, of course, I’m somewhat afraid of the dark, so that was entertaining. I made Mike walk to the bathroom with me because I thought the ghoulies might get me.

The weather wasn’t cooperating on Tuesday – it rained. Thank goodness we had bought a giant tarp at Walmart before setting out, so we had it draped over the entire campsite, with smaller ones on top of our tents to keep them extra dry. Because swimming was out of the question, we went for an adventure in the car. We drove around a new development, looking at the new gorgeous houses that are going up. No joke – there are parts of Chilliwack that I could live in, no problems whatsoever.

Then we found a Starbucks to get me my daily jolt, and I got directions to the beef jerky store. Lisa knows which one I’m talking about – but it had moved! I took the exit and expected it to be right around the corner, but there was a new building there instead! I was so disappointed because I do not get to Chilliwack very often and this beef jerky is seriously so good that I was not going home without it. We found the store and I bought me three bags of goodness.

When we made it back to the campsite, we were both exhausted so we napped. It was a busy day … got up at 11, made breakfast, went on our adventure, got back to the site around 2 … yep, time for a nap! We didn’t wake up until after 4. Mike’s comment, after I expressed amazement at how much I could sleep, was, “Welcome to the world of depression!” It’s so true – before I was taking my medication, all I wanted to do was sleep, and when I wasn’t sleeping, I felt flat. Now, after two weeks on it, I feel really good when I’m awake, but boy do I still sleep a lot. And since I had a brand new self inflating air mattress instead of a lumpy Thermarest – let’s just say there wasn’t a huge incentive to get out of bed.

Once we got up again, we made dinner, then just hung out and played cards and Yahtzee. It continued to rain so going for a walk or hanging out at the lake was out. It turned out to be really relaxing, though. We just hung out, ate a whole lot, drank a little (just over one bottle of wine over two nights – woo big drinkers!), and talked and laughed .

This morning we were up by 8:30 and hitting the road to come home by 11. I was walking in the door at my house by 1pm. It was nice to get back so early because I have now done my laundry and I even have time for a nap before heading out tonight. My dad is taking me and a girlfriend out for dinner and then to the new Cirque show.

Andy was being a brat at first when I got home, not wanting to cuddle and just meowing plaintively at me, but he is now snuggled next to me on the couch so I assume I am forgiven for going away. If he’s in a snit about 2 nights I dunno how he’s going to handle 10 when I go to DC!