You can say the door is open wide

[sovay]

I slept almost ten hours. I accompanied my godchild to a park and watched them hang upside down off a bar in three different ways. I had the pleasure of pitching a drawer from a piece of dead furniture over the ledge at the transfer station, which was clangily cathartic. I had my first ever gelati from Rita's with vanilla frozen custard and blood orange water ice. We cooked dinner on the grill out on the deck, the ne plus ultra of American summer rituals. My godchild took a picture of me standing on their bed and reading a picture book of Chelm tales, which I was doing because their bookshelf is at the top of their closet. I believe I am having a vacation. They happen so rarely, I never recognize them until they are under way.

Comments

[yhlee]

*\o/* Yay the vacation! =D

[sovay]

Yay the vacation!

So far it is an excellent example of the species! I should try planning one sometime and see how it works out.

[selkie]

I can’t make you read a book full of holes on a vacation. We are doing brunch tomorrow though. Sunday brunch! It’s like vacay bingo.

[sovay]

I can’t make you read a book full of holes on a vacation.

Did Tiny Wittgenstein get out when you found the jam-jars?

We are doing brunch tomorrow though. Sunday brunch! It’s like vacay bingo.

Brunch! I haven't had brunch in ages. This is exciting.

[asakiyume]

What a great day! I can just hear that clang.

And I like your godchild's green green walls.

[selkie]

Walls of their own choosing!

We dissected the finished basement down to its 1984 bones. It was a fascinating way to spend an evening!

[asakiyume]

I LIKE THEIR TASTE IN GREEN

[selkie]

I shall tell them! They live their life very vividly.

[sovay]

What a great day! I can just hear that clang.

People were throwing all sorts of stuff over. I could see the therapeutic value.

And I like your godchild's green green walls.

Their own inhabitable chroma key!

[thistleingrey]

\o/

[sovay]

\o/

*hugs*

[gwynnega]

I'm glad you're having such a nice vacation!

[sovay]

I'm glad you're having such a nice vacation!

Thank you! I even arrived in time for a holiday, which was originally unplanned!

[vass]

I'm glad for you.

[sovay]

I'm glad for you.

Thank you.

[cmcmck]

I remember holidays and I'm so glad you are managing to have one! :o)

[sovay]

I remember holidays and I'm so glad you are managing to have one!

Thank you!

[oracne]

NOM Rita's.

[sovay]

NOM Rita's.

I'd never encountered one before!

[oracne]

Philly has many. Custard is so yummy. It has egg in it, I learned.

[sovay]

Custard is so yummy. It has egg in it, I learned.

That's how I found out only a few years ago that my family's recipe for strawberry ice cream is technically a recipe for strawberry frozen custard. I had assumed since childhood that all ice cream was made with eggs. Apparently it is not.

[choco_frosh]

Yay vacation!

[sovay]

Yay vacation!

It's treating me well! There are a lot more people in the world than there have been recently.

[nineweaving]

Happiness!

Nine

[sovay]

Happiness!

I am, in fact, having a wonderful time.

[hawkwing_lb]

Hurrah vacation!

[sovay]

Hurrah vacation!

Thank you!

[sorcyress]

It is extremely important for me to go YAY RITA'S because I am always sad that they never _quite_ expanded this far north. There was one in the Salem mall for a while when I was in college, and then there was one in Everett? Charlestown? tucked away in an industrial park and deeply unfriendly to bicycles.

I miss them, as chains go. I am glad you got to try them and hope you found it enjoyable!

~Sor

[sovay]

I miss them, as chains go. I am glad you got to try them and hope you found it enjoyable!

Extremely! Blood orange water ice is a big deal. I'm sorry they didn't make it up to New England.