… that I also took 1060 photos.
sheesh
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Random Ranting and Writings Upon My Return
Before I get into the statistics of my vacation, can I just vent here a moment?
Can there be anything more humiliating than having a dermatologist say you have facial dandruff? FACIAL DANDRUFF! WTF! I finally went to a specialist yesterday to see why my face keeps having those nasty flareups and that’s what he told me. That and rosacea which are both treatable but not curable. Needless to say I’m bummed out. I also have intertrigo, which is an exotic way of saying I’m too fat and that I apparently must sweat too much. Fuck you, skin and skin doctors.
Okay, now the stats…
I was on vacation from Saturday May 12 until Tuesday May 22.
During those 12 days we:
- Took 3 different flights.
- Stopped or stayed in 4 states
- Slept in 6 hotels
- Traveled 1692 miles in our rental car
- Ate at 3 Chick-Fil-A’s, 1 In N Out, and 1 Krispy Kreme
- Gained about 4 lbs
- Had 0 sex
- Ironically, our own car overheated on the way back from the airport, so after all our adventures, we were stranded in our own state on the shoulder of a Minneapolis highway for 30 mins until traffic went away.
Since my return I’ve- Taken 2 days to post something new
- Lost 1 follower although I don’t know who it was
- Had to read 144 pages on my dashboard to catch up to the last 2 days
- Had sex and more than once, yay!
I’m pretty sure I can’t blame my tumblr use to the frequency of my sex life, so I’m not really sure why I’ve been reluctant to spend more time on tumblr since my return. I think part of the reason may be because I hate the thought of falling into the old habit of pissing my entire day away on the computer. And yet, here I am, 3 hours later, finally catching up on my tumblr and whatnot. I also think I enjoyed being able to catch up on tumblr on my iPhone while we were not busy on vacation and now I have to make more of an effort to sit down and go through everything. Not that I mind saying hi to all of you, mind you. I think it’s just that I need to remind myself that my tumblr is more of a way to be creative and/or collect my thoughts and activities for me to look back upon, rather than a barometer on how others see me, based on the amount of likes and reblogs. There are so many photos I still want to share and a few gif ideas too, so I guess I’ll just have to do them when I want to, as opposed to feeling like I HAVE to.
In the meantime.
Hi!
It’s nice to be home and enjoy the thunder, although the mosquitoes are worse here than in any of the other states we’ve been in. To add insult to injury regarding my before-mentioned skin problems, I think I just found 2 mosquito bites on my face!
Now that I’ve finally got something posted, however, I should probably unpack or something. I can’t seem to find the cord that connects my camera to my computer. Grr. I’m also downloading my daughter’s Diablo III onto my computer and it’s freaking slow.
THAT I can probably blame on my current Tumblr use.
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Guess where we went today?
Well actually we also went to a mall, an expensive seafood restaurant and cruised a building of a game I used to play, but guess where else?
Can’t wait to share more, but now it’s time to re-pack for our flight tomorrow. Kind of sad that it’s almost over, but I can’t complain. We’ve been on the road since Saturday, May 12th.
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This trip has certainly been a blast from the past. Look what I get to have now? I think it’s been 5 fraking years. Too bad they weren’t making the originals, those are amazing when hot and fresh.
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Been on the move again today. We left Oklahoma and continued on to Missouri. So far we’ve made it to Joplin, where I decided to get myself a Stetson (not pictured), then to Springfield, where I donned this bat hat, and then had the chance to explore the “Fantastic Caverns”, which happened to wind up being pretty fantastic. My camera shutter had to stay open longer for the darker environment, so some of the pictures wound up blurry. Still, I managed to catch a few great moments and I look forward to sharing them in a couple of days.
For now, however, we still have another 3 hours to go, before we reach the hotel in St. Louis. At least we have a thunderstorm and gorgeous sunset to accompany us on the rest of the journey.
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Couldn’t find an open El Pollo Loco anywhere in Texas or Oklahoma, but at least we did find a pollo loco.
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I thought Zee might like this picture. Taken at Hard Rock Hotel and Casino Tulsa, Oklahoma
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So I guess y’all will be spared from too many renaissance pictures, for now. I decided to take most of them with my real camera, so perhaps they will be shared down the road. In the meantime, it was a nice day. The highlights for me consisted of buying a medieval looking padlock, petting and cooing at a gorgeous Eurasian eagle owl, and pissing off my daughter by stuffing her marble gift up my nose and saying “Now I have a nose ring too!”, then shooting it out my nostril at her when she protested its location. The pissing her off wasn’t the bonus, mind you, but more the look on my mother-in-law’s face and her continuing to laugh about it afterward. Ahhh, good family times. Heading back to the hotel now, but we may then press our luck and try to see Tulsa’s May Fair this evening.
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So what does one do on a free day of vacation? We are now on day 8 of traveling. Most of those days have had a fairly busy itinerary. Yesterday, with the graduation of our niece, was really the last of those, unless you count that we still have specific days which we have to leave for the next state and town. Anyway, we have absolutely nothing to do today. We probably could have vegged out in our hotel room but where’s the fun in that? So today we driving to yet another town to see what Oklahoma’s renaissance faire has to offer. I have been to ones in Texas, Colorado, California and Minnesota, so it will be pretty neat to mark another state off my list. I realize I’m typing an awful lot about nothing, but I thought y’all might appreciate knowing why I may have some odd pictures today. At least I hope to have some odd pictures to share.
