vacation in place

[dragonlady7]

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I’m just. I’m gonna vacation-in-place this weekend.

I’m just going to pretend that I’ve left town. I drove for a number of hours, and spent a while unpacking, and now I’m in this charming little house, which we’ll pretend is in the middle of a nice forest or something; let’s imagine a nice view, instead of the back of the bleachers of the high school across the street. Yeah, it’s a snowy woods. In fact, it’s super snowy out, and the snow is too deep for me to go out in, so I’m just going to stay inside.

And it’s so nice in this little cabin. I’ve unpacked, and somehow I managed to bring all of my things, every one of my possessions, even the untidy mess that’s the whole corner of my living room. Shh, we won’t worry about that, and we’ll focus on the fact that I have all my things with me, including my sewing machines and my spinning wheel and my banjo, all these heavy clunky things I never would pack all of.

Oh, and my whole liquor cabinet– that’s all here, too. Which is great. And my glassware. Good.

Anyway. Don’t get sidetracked; I’m in this nice cozy cabin with an imaginary view. And my cat is here, and my Dude, of course– he comes on vacations with me anyway, but she doesn’t, so it’s nice that she’s here. She hates to travel so she’d enjoy this imaginary version more anyway.

(Maybe we should get in the car and drive around for a while, and look out the window? For versimilitude? IDK)

Oh hm my washing machine is here, and all my dirty laundry, so, well– I’ll probably take care of that, because I’ll be sad come Monday if I have all this laundry to do. Well, that’s fine. Oh, I’ll change the sheets on the bed, that will help my own comfortable bed still feel like it’s somewhere else, somewhere special. And then of course I’ll have to do more laundry. But apart from that–

yes, let’s pretend. I’ll pretend I’m on vacation. I’m somewhere else. I’m someone else, the way everyone is slightly someone else when they’re on vacation– someone who’s not worried about doing The Most all the time– an A/U version of yourself who’s allowed to just sigh and swan about being Relaxed, and such.

Yes. it’s like that time we rented a cabin in the Adirondacks, and we hung out and read books and cooked surprisingly (not surprisingly, we’re good cooks) lovely meals in the tiny kitchen, and gazed at the view and went hiking and canoeing, only it’s so snowy we couldn’t possibly go hiking or canoeing, and the view’s imaginary so– whatever. Whatever!

sobs gently it’s fine. it’s fine! It’s fine, we’re on vacation. It’s vacation. It’s imaginary vacation. (Your picture was not posted)

Comments

[unicornduke]

if you ever want to stay in a house in the -hamptons*, I now know a place. you gotta be fine with route 81 traffic noise, an unstocked kitchen and a useless plow guy but otherwise it's very nice!

*Bing

But for real, take a weekend to Do Nothing or Relaxing Things because it's very nice!