UnCONventional

Right now I'm sitting in a cabin just outside Phillips, WI. Crysta and I are spending the week at the resort she went to growing up, just like we do every May to both celebrate her birthday and do something for our wedding anniversary (even if that part is a month early).

This is the sixth year that we've done this, and it's just... nice? We spend the day sitting and staring at the lake from the porch in our nice reclining lawn chairs, and then when the sun goes down we watch old TV shows we have on Bluray and DVD.

Last night we finally finished our rewatch of the old British sitcom As Time Goes By. We literally started doing it years ago, but have only been watching episodes while on vacation, so it's obviously taken some time to get through them all. Tonight we'll start on Monarch of the Glen, and I expect it will take another three or four years to get through all of that and move onto something else.

Probably Hamish MacBeth, Ballykissangel, or Northern Exposure.

It's just nice to be peaceful for a week. To let the mind rest for some time. I've been getting some writing done, but for the most part I'm just enjoying not having to think about a lot of my daily stresses. Internet coverage is spotty here, so I can't even spend a ton of time online.

It's pretty great.

Right now though, I'm going to put this laptop away, get out a good book, and read it on the porch while we stare at the lake. Life is pretty amazing sometimes when we are able to find the little moments of quiet in the storm.