Vacation Recap

I left Houston last Sunday for vacation, and it's been a pretty great eight days off.  Paragraph-style, it would take forever for me to write, re-write, and eventually discard....so here's the vacation recap, bulletin-style.

• Houston to Big Spring is a good 7+ hour drive.  Nothing makes that drive fun, not even twittering song lyrics every couple of songs.  (And if you don't believe me, you can ask anyone who followed along).
• Killed my first bird last weekend.  Not with a gun, but with my windshield.  Somehow, driving no faster than 75 - 80 mph, I managed to clip a bird who was swooping too low for his own good.  I'm used to dodging deer on Highway 87, but birds?
• For Mother's Day I helped usher in the apocalypse by getting my mom an iPhone.  Mom doesn't have a debit card, but now she's got an iPhone.  If she gets a Twitter account, I highly recommend stocking up on canned goods and bottled water.
• Had a great time hanging out with the kids.  Unfortunately I probably won't be able to say "kids" much longer.  In less than a month, Forrest will officially be a teenager and Reagan will hit double digits in age.  Can't say it enough though, they're great kids.
• Don't tell Fort Worth this, but I kind of missed it a little bit after driving up on Thursday and all around the mid-cities area on Friday. 
• Had fun catching up with several bank friends and Bethe on Thursday, crashing at Larry and Rachel's that night, and then out to Curt and Amy's on Friday.  No way I could ever fit in every one of my DFW friends, but for the time allotted I had a good run while I was in the area.
• Apparently there was an earthquake in Euless on Saturday?  Come on, Texas, I don't care if it was just a 3.3.  That whole "no earthquakes" thing is one of our advantages in the Texas vs. California debate.

Now it's Sunday afternoon and I just got home from the comparatively speaking "short" four hour drive from Granbury to my little corner of Houston.  That first pile of laundry that waited patiently all week for my return is now ready to move over to the dryer, and I have assorted errands to run before dinner with the branch at 7:00.  Oh, and speaking of running I should probably get some exercise sometime soon.

It's been a great vacation...and even though I could probably use one last day off to do little stuff around the apartment, in a weird way I almost miss work.  Almost.  Hard to describe, since I'm not particularly looking forward to the coming week for at least a half dozen reasons, but after eight days of playing it feels like I should go be productive for a while.

(I reserve the right to take back that entire last paragraph by as early as Monday afternoon.)

Comments

[Mom]

I am loving my phone!!!!