Back from vacation!

Coming home from vacation is sometimes one of the most wonderful feelings that a person can have.  You always enjoy the time away and the time that you get to travel, see new things, do different stuff, but the familiarity of home is always a great and wonderful thing.  This was a fantastic vacation for me and one that went far better than I had expected.  On Friday the 16th my husband and I left San Diego bound for Connecticut one a plane.  This was a big deal for me since this was the first time I’ve been in a plane in many years.  When I was 16 I took my first plane trip which took me from Connecticut to Orlando, Florida for Christmas vacation with my aunt and uncle.  It was a horrifying experience and scared the hell out of me.  For close to 20 years now I have avoided flying at all costs.  This time I didn’t have much of a choice.  The trip to Connecticut was in part to visit family but also so that my husband and I could pick up a car that we had at my parents house.  We knew that we’d be driving back so it was either spend close to $1200 on a rental car, plus gas and hotels to get across the country, or spent $500 on two one way tickets on Southwest and just fly out there.  The added bonus of flying also meant that we could spend 9 days visiting with family rather than just 3 days if we drove.  So, I sucked it up, and decided to fly.

The whole airport experience was interesting, and to my own surprise I didn’t panic or have any sort of freak out in the process of checking in and boarding the plane.  I also found myself genuinely enjoying flying!  I didn’t cry, panic, get scared or get sick (the biggest of my worries) at all and instead found it a fun experience.  I was exhausted, that was the biggest problem; I didn’t get much sleep the night before and every time I tried to fall asleep any little bumps in the air would jolt me out of my sleep with a wee bit of shock.  Now I’m feeling like I’ve been given a chance to do anything and go anywhere I ever want, and it feels great!  I’m working now on planning a trip to San Fransisco for my husband and I for later in the year for our anniversary.

Spending time in Connecticut with family was fun but crazy.  I could have easily spent two weeks at home and still not felt like I’d seen everyone and had enough time there!  Driving back was fun as always; this was the fourth time I’ve made this cross country trip and this was my favorite trip so far since this time I got to go to New Orleans.  I have wanted to go there for years.  I still remember watching the whole live coverage of Hurricane Katrina when that happened and being devastated at the thought that New Orleans could be gone before I had a chance to go there.  We were there for a day and a half and after 20 minutes of being there I turned to my husband and said “I could live here.”  This was then followed by my walking around Bourbon St. looking at for rent signs and taking pictures saying “One day, we’re going to live here.”  The only bad part is I could become the size of a house because I’d easily eat my weight in beignets and po-boys on a weekly basis.  It was wonderful though.  The music, the love in the city, the art, the culture and history; it’s really an amazing place with an energy all it’s own.  My husband loves it there and he’d been there for a day or two before so he knew I wouldn’t want to leave once I got there.  And hew as right!  I had to choke back a tear when we left.  I can’t wait to get back there.

But, all in all, coming home was wonderful.  We had two friends house sitting for us while we were away so that the cats wouldn’t have to be boarded.  We came home to an apartment that looked better than we left it, flowers and all, and a delicious dinner cooking away for us.  The cats took a little while to forgive us for our departure.  Loki, my black cat who is my shadow and typically follows me everywhere I go, hardly wanted to acknowledge my existence, letting me know he wasn’t happy that I had left him for two whole weeks.  We’ve been back a day now and he’s getting over it but he’s still a little stand-offish with me.  The other two seem to be happy to be back to business as usual at home.

Now that I’m back I’m getting ready to get to work on a bunch of projects.  I am ready to get completely focused on writing the meditation and tarot books so I can make some serious progress with them.  I’m also giving consideration again to work on an Etsy shop in the fall.  I’m going to start working on planning that out over the next few months.  I have a small handful of classes that are wrapping up and I’ll be starting the Angel Communication Master Class with Angels Teach in the fall (I finished the Angel Communication Specialist class at the beginning of the month and am now certified as an angel card reader and communicator).    I’m also getting ready to start working on the readings for all the awesome people that helped me to win the Tarot Guild contest and start putting together the August reading special.  And the blog is going to go back to it’s more active days of the past too.

And that was my summer vacation!  I hope everyone has had a good couple of weeks and I’m looking forward to connecting with you all here and over on my Facebook page.  And don’t forget about Twitter and the Tarot Guild!  And a Blessed Lughnasadh to you all as well!!