This weekend was absolutely amazing for me. I was kidnapped by my close friends, Maverick and Eric (I also kidnapped Tim just for fun) and we went up north just past Aitkin MN where a friend of Eric’s was having a large gathering of nerds for a weekend of drinking and gaming. It was delightful. I’m actually quite disappointed in myself for not taking any pictures, it would have been great to put on here…I’m sure once I get into the swing of blogging I’ll be better about taking photos of my life. I hope… It just always seems more important to enjoy the moment, in the moment rather than photographing it for the future. Oh well, next adventure…
I spent the weekend relaxing, meeting new people and just getting away from my life in the cities. Possibly my favorite part of the weekend was going for a walk on my own via the 4-wheeler trail behind the house. When I got probably half a mile away from the house I saw a deer run in front of me. It made me just stop and watch and as it disappeared back into the woods I noticed how quite everything around me was. Living in the city you get used to noise, be it the buzz of your computer, the hum of traffic or the constant chatter of day to day life. Even my walking was loud and obnoxious, but once I paused, that went away and I could hear absolutely nothing. I thought it was beautiful and remarkably centering. On my return walk, I collected leaves that jumped out at me as representing the colors of fall. I’m flattening them now and hope to use them in some kind of collage or book-mark.
The rest of the night was filled with an amazing chicken dinner, fire dancing, socializing, social lubricant (aka drinking) and talking out in the rain with the more chill people of the group. I loved it, my social circle is growing so much and it seems to be flowing quite naturally to me. I always thought I was terribly and incurably introverted but this weekend really proved that I can feel comfortable meeting new people. I really wish more weekends could be as fun and exciting as this weekend was for me. Sadly work has to get done…>.< and I’m a little behind after having so much fun! oops!
I got to play a lot of Magic the Gathering and 4 player chess (I actually almost won simply by being the agent of chaos once they discounted me as not knowing what I was doing…which I didn’t but I still almost trounced them all!!! hehe). Even got a couple possible jobs designing tattoos for new friends which I thought was pretty spiffy. More to come on that soon I hope!
I haven’t named her yet…I’m open to suggestions but it might become more clear after I get more done on her.