This Girl - aka Vacation Day 3

"This girl tries her best everyday,
But it's all gone to waste 'cause there's no one around,
This girl she can draw she can paint,
Likes to dance she can skate,
Now she don't make a sound."

I like James Morrison. A little star 98.7, but still, really good.

Vacation Day three has come and gone - tomorrow I leave for Budapest. I am so excited. I am ready to test out this Hungarian coffee that seems to be all the rage on the blogs.

Hallelujah it's raining (rain) - Day 1

Fall has arrived.

Time to bust out the Jose Gonzales albums, the Sufjan, the dcfc, the postal service, the band of horses, etc. Time to put away the sounds of summer and move toward the melancholy fall tunes.
It is raining. I am pretty much bored out of my mind. Note - it has only been about 20 hours since I have been on vacation. This is the decompression period.

Today is vacation day 1. I have NOTHING to do.

I have no work to do for work, no laundry, no cleaning, I am essentially packed for my trip, I have seen all my DVD's, I am not hungry - I don't know what the heck to do.

If I knew how to thread my sewing machine I could start doing that. But that requires me to do a lot of learning, and all the online guides that I have read are really complicated. I may sew my finger to the thing....

4 days until Budapest.

the hills are alive with the sound of music

I am really digging this "not being busy" life style.

It is pretty hard on my body though. Three weeks ago I gave up caffeine. The headaches have *finally* gone away.

I am thoroughly going through some serious decompression. Running at the speed of light, then slowly down even slightly causes some readjustments physically to your body. Your body works so hard for so long to keep up, that when you give it even a second to breathe it just sort of falls apart.

So here I sit - caffeine free tea in hand - watching for quite possibly the 70+ time "The Sound of Music." There is no better comfort movie on earth for me than this.

In the summer of '96 I had my wisdom teeth removed. They were not impacted so it was a pretty rough recovery. That story is quite possibly one of my most hilarious medical experiences, but I will save that for another time.

Anyway, summer of '96, I think I watched the Sound of Music 40+ times. I pretty much wore out the first VHS tape. (because the first one was the fun part of the movie, the second tape was too serious...)

There were days I watched it twice. Oh, the days before we had the internet! ;)

10 days until Budapest.