Some vacations require a different kind of mindset.
I'm on one of those.
I've determined that since I'm in the middle of a big "wow, this is a vacation I do not want to be on" (it's like that movie Speed II which I never actually saw but I do know that they couldn't stop the boat. I imagine that was stressful, too), I should try some new things just to take advantage of the unusual situation.
I don't usually drink caffeine. I thought, Hey, why not? Oh yes, it makes my hands shake more than usual, and lately they've been shaking a bit.
I don't usually eat fast food. Now I'm a pro, though! Check me out! In the king of burgers eating food and reading a paper. AND I didn't say "bless you" to the guy who sneezed. Twice. I was a regular American.
I don't usually do hand-stitching projects. I thought it might be a nice change. I was wrong, though. It's hard to use a needle properly with shaking hands.
I've been driving in the car with my mother--my mother has been driving. I try to reassure myself by thinking, "Oh, she's only been in one accident." But she drove past our street when we were trying to get home and she waits to go through traffic lights long enough that they're almost done being yellow and she doesn't see people coming when she'd backing out of her parking space. And she looks at other things when she's driving. Things other than the road. So it's like being on Mr. Toad's Wild Ride.
It's rather terrifying. Although I guess it makes a person feel alive. I'm not sure that's what I'm after. Not that way.
But! I have my very own bathtub on this vacation. Oh yes. A bathtub.
Posted by dotty at May 18, 2005 03:51 PM