My Weekend at Woodhaven Lakes
I was going to wait a while longer actually to tell you the story of my awesome and fantastic weekend. because quite honestly, it hasn’t sunk in that im not there anymore and it feels like a post comic con depression when you see all your friends for three days and then you have to come back to reality to your real job. Well, that’s what two days and a half of relaxation, camp fire stories, yoga, meditation, and hiking felt like as well.
Its going to be a long one so click the link for more.
About a week ago I told my friend that I needed a four day weekend and get out of the area for those four days because I was losing steam at work, started to get stressed out, and anxiety was beginning to come back to bite me in the ass. Last time I did that was about a year and a half ago so I haven’t really had a real vacation since then. So he suggested we go to this wooded area camper lot and it would do me good because its just woods and out in the open with camp grounds and…. Nature.
So I agreed. We were going there. I didn’t have to worry about anything. I told my bestie about it. She thought it was a great idea for me due to the stress I been under and the fact that I been a little moody lately. Not bad. Weekend was set. I told my boss about it and told them I needed this or else im just going to be a fucken asshole all weekend.. because as bestie knows so well, if I dont get my way, I turn into a raging dick.
Everything was going according to plan on Friday with the exception that I sent the blankets to get washed and they weren’t ready until Saturday morning. So that meant that I would leave on Saturday afternoon after getting the blankets and buying food for the trip there. It was a few hours away and I about texted everyone telling them that im there so some wouldn’t have to worry. Mostly my super squad that I love so much. lol. Pretty much, my entire stay there would mean that I wouldn’t have any internet or cell phone service and I was only worried about one thing at the time so I waited a while for that to show up on my screen and then just let my phone go and put it in my car.
After finally arriving, my friend decided to call his friends, which were locals who been staying there for a while. Get a camp fire going and we’re just going to hang out all night while we set up a tent outside. And we did. Everything was just great and easy going that entire night. His friends came out. Guitar, lots of songs, mostly some Journey, and it was a karaoke kind of night I guess. A few of us stayed up til 4 am talking to each other about everything and nothing. They got to know me and I got to know mostly all of them. Especially this one girl who I got to talk her ear off the entire night and we were betting each other that we wouldn’t be able to stay up all night… I crashed. lol.
The next day, well, later that day after I got a few hours of sleep, I was woken up and told I wasn’t going to waste my entire time there sleeping so she got me up and had me go get some more wood for later. Which meant I had to chop it up with an axe and believe me I have never done this before… except for that one year with a chainsaw in my backyard but this was different. I used my arms. And then I figured I needed to work my legs as well so I used the wood that I was chopping as a box jump. Later that day in the evening, we went to the lake and got to hang out, they got to drink beer. I got to just be myself and enjoy the scenery. I chilled and its what I mostly wanted to do. It was Sunday and I didn’t have to go back to work until Tuesday. We did one more cookout and then closed the grill down because we heard there was a rainstorm coming our way so everyone had to pack up. I did also. Took the tent down that I was sleeping in earlier and put everything in the car within 30 minutes. Apparantly the storm passed the site because as we were leaving the roads were flooded and we couldn’t move forward so we had to go back. I thought I was leaving that night so I texted everyone as I was out there and told them that I was going home but then I had to go back. And we did. We went back… unpacked everything up and just chilled again. Everyone was brought back to come back and we ate the rest of the food that we had.
Again, we stayed up til 3 in the am and just talked. We layed down in the tent and looked up at the night sky and the moon. It was awesome. Serene. I was calm. I loved it. Every little minute of it. That I called my job the next day from my friends phone to tell them I wasn’t going to work on Tuesday. They were ok with it at first, but then realized that I had a 9 hour shift to do and so they said no and I needed to go back.
I hated leaving. I would have enjoyed staying there a bit longer and honestly it felt like post con depression. I met some awesome people, an even awesome person by the name of Hilary, whom I told about tumblr and all the awesome people that are here and tried to convince her to join and make one because of her love of fandoms. I want to go back, maybe for three months in the summer and I know im not going to get those kind of days off at work but if that dont work, then a few weeks or go there every other weekend just to hang out with those people again and feel at home with nothing to worry about.
And there’s the story of why I didn’t want to come back. If I been distant to some of you, this is why. I dont want you all to think its because of you and you’re annoying me or whatever it is you’re doing and I dont care. That’s not the case. I went back to work yesterday and I felt better than I did this past year. They missed me also but its the 4 days off that I needed and deserved. So for those of you who I haven’t talked to. Give me a few more days. Maybe a week. I just need to get over this Post Con Depression.
And last night… thanks for taking the time to hear me talk about this, miaspectra. Mi Lady!
