Trip Recap

Hello! I'm back from Chattanooga and Lookout Mountain (GA side). I had a wonderful time and am completely driven out and talked out. So much driving, so much talking AND so much fun. 

The mountain drive to the house wasn't bad, not nearly as isolated as I thought. The house was beautiful and the view was incredible. 

Here's a quick look in pictures. 

Coffee at Rosie's Farm
with the alpaca

Morning view from house

Such a nice rental

First look on Lookout Mountain

Hand gliders over the house.
The start is just down the road.

We stopped in Cartersville, GA on the way home -- cute town. Lots of happy, inclusive signs and one asshole holding a nasty message. I told him what I thought about it when he tried to talk to me. But overall, a nice place, but a sense of hate lingering underneath the nice messaging. 

I got Christmas shopping started and a few goodies for me. 

Christmas picture in pink
so I put it out early.

Also Billy Joel vintage album

Christmas laundry detergent

Set of iron bookends.

I'm doing a fast turnaround for the trip to Asheville tomorrow. Need to be there by 11 o'clock so get up and go tomorrow. 

We have a Billy Joel cover band concert tonight. Lots of folks coming. Chair setup is all a fuss though. It'll workout, but I hate this kind of situation. We offered, picked up chairs -- all set and now 4 more people coming. It's something I need to be completely not stressed about, but annoyance is creeping in. Unorganized people depending on someone else to be organized so they get the good seats too. I'm glad we have the problem of more people rather than everyone canceling though. It's also sizing up for EVERYONE except us to be late to the concert (as per every other time). I guess this kind of thing will always annoy me. 

That's a quick hello this morning. I have a lot to do today. Still trying to remember to have fun because this is all fun. And I'm so lucky to be able to have nice, fun things right now.

I have so much sadness and worry over events this week. I found out a family member is a big fan of the man shot and that was massively disappointing to me that she supports hateful ideas. I don't support killings and I fear this will ignite more hate. And I hated everything this person stood for. The dumpster fire just spread some more. There is such a feeling of doom lingering over everything -- like this is the lead up to something we've never experienced in our lifetime. And we're doing it to ourselves. 

Well, I could go down a big rabbit hole. I'll leave it at that. Later gators.