Vacation

I've decided that I need a vacation. I'm just not a big fan of this everyday life crap. Especially when the everyday includes crap earthquakes like the one happening right now. Fuck. Anyway, it seems to have passed so I'll continue. Sorry, I'm a little strange. But I think you've probably gathered that by now. And I don't mean that in a bad way. I like the strange bits of myself. But lately I've found myself feeling more and more...average? No. Not average. It's just that my life doesn't feel sparkly right now. It feels routine. And while I am a big fan of routine in the abstract it's not so fun on a day to day basis. You know what I'm saying? Maybe not. I feel very dull. Not dull as in boring but dull as in not shiny or sparkly. You know, like all my sparkly coating has been rubbed off. Like how water wears down rocks until they have no bumpy, spiky bits. And I much prefer to feel all sparkly and spiky. Don't you?

Anyway, I need a vacation from my life. It would be marvelous if you could not only change your location when you go on vacation (tee hee, that rhymes) but also your self. That would be super fantastico. Yes. But back here in the real world (sorry, I got distracted there), I just want to go somewhere. I've never been anywhere. I've always been kind of nomadic but it hasn't taken me anywhere really exotic. Unless you count Japan. Which I guess I do. But other than that, nothing. I've lived in Duncan BC, Campbell River BC, St. Paul Alberta, Nanaimo BC, Quadra Island BC, Calgary Alberta, Halifax Nova Scotia, Vancouver BC (actually Burnaby but whatever!) and now Tokyo Japan. And I've never had a vacation. Not really. I went on a family vacation once to Kelowna and Penticton when I was 15 which was quite entertaining but not exactly exotic. I mean, I was 15 so I went to the mall and the skatepark and chatted up cute boys which is pretty much the same thing I did when I was at home. Not exactly a wild departure from the norm.

I'm thinking I'd like to go to Hong Kong and see the craziness, or Thailand to ride on elephants and visit ruins or China to see the great wall and the crazy finger looking mountains, or Vietnam to see the...actually I don't really know what there is in Vietnam but I'm reasonably sure it wouldn't be anything like anywhere I've been before. Or Moscow for the reasons I've already mentioned in past posts. Or Korea. Or Okinawa. Or Hokkaido. Yep. And then eventually I'd like to see Europe. And Australia and New Zealand. And maybe after that Africa. I'd also love to see the middle east but somehow that doesn't seem like such a good idea at the moment. In any event I obviously have to find myself a real job so I can sock away some money for my all new travelling lifestyle. And Mexico. Did I mention Mexico?

But for now I will settle for a hot bath (but not tonight because of the earthquake thing) with candles and wine. And snuggling the doglet while reading a good book. These are also good things. I may have to rearrange my furniture. Maybe buy some new curtains and a bed spread. I'm thinking...red. My apartment is striking me as having entirely too much brown. It needs some screaming red to liven things up. And maybe a few purple bits. And a painting or two. I wonder if the doglet would hair up my bedspread if it were velvet. I have a thing for red velvet. But I do not have a thing for dog hair. I'll have to find something velvety and rub Lilo on it to see what happens. It's a plan.