A Lazy Saturday

I have had a brutally busy few months. It's been full of good things, changes that I'm happy about. Events and socializing that I loved. But tiring.

The final blow was this past weekend. I went shopping with a couple friends, and we drove about an hour and a half down to some outlet stores. We shopped for seven hours. Let me say that again: Seven hours. In that seven hours, I bought one dress and two camisoles. The company was very good, so the time actually flew by. But I was very tired by the end of it.

The next day, my husband and I headed up to Rough and Ready, California (yes, such a place does exist). My husband's grandfather was celebrating his 80th birthday.

I love going up to Rough and Ready. It's not exactly beautiful; certainly not grand. But I can see how it would grow on a person. Very rural, and the scenery feels a little rough and unforgiving. The people also are very individualistic. I suspect that a certain amount of the population moved up there because, frankly, they got tired of people in the cities.

I probably don't have this story quite right, but Rough and Ready seceded from California and the Union at one point. As I understand it, California just said, 'Okay, you do that' and eventually Rough and Ready rejoined California on their own (probably they got sick of things like not having a mail service). Shows what a little bit of apathy can do for you.

I'm very glad that we headed up to Rough and Ready on Sunday, but the long trip and socializing just about did for me. I was very happy to get back to work on Monday (this is partially because I really enjoy my job, partially because I just like working so long as the work is interesting, but mostly this past week because it didn't require any long car journeys).

I had a wonderfully lazy Saturday this weekend, and don't plan to move too much today either. I'm feeling smug because I have finished 90% of my Christmas shopping (the internet is a wonderful thing), and I don't need to go out and buy gifts. I probably will go out with my husband while he does his Christmas shopping; but that will be more social than stressful (for me at least).

Life is good, especially after a lazy Saturday.