dichroic | too much time doing much too little (Reply)

I feel so boring these days.I know that’s a bit silly; after all, I didn’t feel boring 7 years ago back before we embarked on the whole expat adventure. I didn’t feel boring for the first half of last year, either; sore, I spent a lot of my day keeping house, but having all that time meant I got to try new recipes or do things like picking strawberries in the middle of a weekday, things I’d never had the time to do before. Also, I was writing a book, househunting and then furnishing a house. THose are interesting things.

But then I started work again at the end of July, and since then, I haven’t done anything but work, erg and knit. (And read. It’s such a state of being for me that I rarely think to count it as an activity.) I can count our social activities for the last year and if I exclude knitting group, I’d have fingers left over. We’ve gone downtown a few times, to Philadelphia once, to southern Oregon once, and to our house lots of times. I haven’t even gotten on the water much, what with weather and what not. I raced there last April but didn’t do any more racing, though Ted did a few here.

Work’s had its ups and downs, but that’s some a topic I can really discuss here, for obvious reasons. So if I talk a lot about knitting or cooking, it’s because that’s what I’ve got.

We need to do something!!! (Isn’t that a line from Sorcery and Cecelia? But not quite the same kind of thing.) We’ve been talking about a trip to Hawaii; there was a family reunion planned for this summer, but it seems to have fallen through, though I think a couple of people are still going, and one cousin lives there. But I don’t want to sit on a beach. The ideal Hawaiian vacation for us would include a few days on the Big Island, where we’d tour a shield volcano, visit the Mauna Kea observatory, and take a day trip to Oahu to see Pearl Harbor; followed by time in Maui and Lauai where we’d try windsurfing again (we used to do it in Texas, in the early 1990s), maybe have a surfing lesson, go hiking, take a suset cruise, eat great food, swim in the ocean (me, anyway) and then have some silly fun like tubing or a zip line. I’m wondering if I should book through a travel agent, since that’s how we managed similarly active vacations in Alaska and New Zealand, but the ones I checked out seem to have boring pre-defined trips.

Hm. Maybe just a few days at kiteboarding school in Maui and then to the Big Island to see a volcano, observatory, and Pearl Harbor (I think they have day trips to Oahu). My feet itch.

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