heading to the frozen womb of the motherland

[zenithblue]

Going to Alaska, where the temperature high for all next week is...wait for it...sixty five degrees fahrenheit!

*Does the happy dance*

I'm planning to wear black all week. Hodge mentioned that I will be complaining about the cold by the end of the first day, but that's all right. Vacation is all about new and exotic things to complain about. Besides which, in the cold you just put more clothes on. I'm actually hitting the legal limit of things to take off down here.

This will be my first summer trip home to Anchorage since 2002. I'm really quite excited--more so than I've been in a while. The last three or four winter trips home I've been increasingly unhappy. I love seeing my family but honestly, it's a few days of Christmas fun followed by a house-bound, dark, depressing, miserably cold week of isolation, since I'm too much of a chicken to drive on the ice. So this year for the first time I'm weaseling out of the Christmas trip, and as a result I'm getting a for-real vacation to Alaska rather than a parental-visit to Alaska.

In other news, I'm a wretched and negligent friend. I missed 2 birthdays this month. Two! One of which is a birthday of a person with whom I previously lived for six years! Also, I owe about four of you snail mail of various stripes, and I have been super-erratic about commenting on journals. You know I love you all, and sooner or later my love will overcome my pitiful flakiness. I promise.

Comments

[zanawake.livejournal.com]

Alaska in summer makes perfect sense! Bon voyage, dear.

[decemberthirty.livejournal.com]

Ohhhhh, 65 degrees! I'm so jealous!

[punkybrister69.livejournal.com]

Have a good break, zen. You deserve it.

I've Lived Here For 54 Years and This is the Coldest Summer I Remember

[hartofak.blogspot.com (from livejournal.com)]

There was a summer that was just as cold, but I was only two, so I don't actually remember it.
They may have told you that it was going to be 65 next week, but I'd want to see it to believe it, oh and you, too, if you can fit it in.

[scarredbyitall.livejournal.com]

Have fun in Alaska.

[lagizma.livejournal.com]

Request! Can you send me Dead Men Tell No Tale by Captain Bogg and Salty?? I'm working on a little project and that's the last piece I need. If you could upload the mp3 to YouSendIt, I could pull it off there.