all work, all play

It's finally the SWEETKEND.

Another 12-hour work day behind me; however, I am bound for some good hiking and exploring this weekend. It's pay day, so I was able to go pick up my new NANOspikes for my boots/shoes so that I can walk/run better on ice and in snow. Can't wait to test them!

So, boring day; however, however, however--I'm continuing to enjoy a good book and I'm currently enjoying a ginger beer and gazing at a Purple Lizard map. Good times are ahead, as well as homemade pho, and my weekend cocktail. Each weekend, I'm experimenting with making new-to-me cocktails because I'm not an alcoholic.

I'm anticipating the little bit of snow we're expecting tomorrow into Sunday. While reading and map-gazing this evening, I had to "set the mood" for myself. I'm not very good at relaxing. I feel like I have to deserve it. All I did was work two sedentary jobs today. I didn't move my body as much as it needs to move. So, when I sat down to read at the end of the day, I pretended it was snowing heavily outside. I had to shift the gear in my brain from go-go-go to chillllll. It's a blizzard out there! Of course I'm going to cozy up to a good book! I'll think to myself even though the wind is at rest right now and the snow-to-come is still a ways away.

A girl can dream.

I'll leave you with a little snippet of something that I read this evening that really resonated with me:

"In childhood, when the world was still new, it was water we were drawn to. To the pond, to the stream, to the inlet. None of us thought then just what it was about water, but it filled us with something, a suspense, something singular and dramatic, a sort of darkness."

-Karl Ove Knausgaard

Having moved from the land of three rivers where all the bridges went over water to a land where all the bridges go over rail road tracks, I still seek water and its darkness. I'm still sighing when I drive over bridges in Altoona. Altoona, where they call large streams you can walk across, rivers.