Five Days
Today is day one of my five days off from my job for Easter break. My first order of business this morning was obviously to feed and water the cats. Sleeping in is a rarity these days. The cats will let you know when they are ready for you to wake up. Usually it's a paw in the face. "Excuse me. Excuse me. I'm ready for some wet food."
My thing is... You HAVE dry food down. But you STILL need me to wake up and give you wet food. Okay... Okay... I'm up, I'm up.
Cats are fed. Turtle is fed. I decided to do a few things around the house. Then I went over to pay the tax bill. Taxes. There's no way around it if you own a house. But, if you pay it early you get a discount.
It's interesting the amount of money people waste through their lives paying things late. I have to wonder if you added it all up how much would it be? Probably a lot.
I feel like it always pays to pay things early and get discounts on things (see what I did there). Although sometimes we can't always do that. Either we don't know about it, or life just gets in the way. It happens. Someone should make a career out of personally advising people on how to get all the best discounts and deals on things in every day life. That'd be a fun job. What do you do for a living? I'm a personal discount/coupon adviser. I remind people of the discounts they could be getting in all aspects of their daily lives.
Now that's something people can use. For reals.
Well after I did my grown up things, I headed off for my "fun day". I'm having a staycation for this 5 day break. I generally really don't actually like to travel. I know, it's the opposite of what everyone strives to achieve. A globe trotter... Traveling around the world to the latest hot new travel destination. I guess. I'd rather just go out somewhere on a day trip and come home and sleep in my own bed each night... With my cats to paw at my face the next morning.
If hotels came with a complimentary cat pawing in your face morning wake up call I might be more inclined to travel. Until that's a thing... Staycation.
First thing I did was get a Wawa hoagie. Talk about splurging. Next I went to see the orchids at Longwood Gardens. It's their Orchid Extravaganza event. I never knew there were so many different kinds. My gosh. Orchids of every color/shape/size. You name it. Unfortunately there's no Orca Orchid. I'm just saying. An Orca Orchid would be killer.
Yep.
Look up, look down, look all around at all the orchids to be found. #orchidextravaganza #longwoodgardens A photo posted by Kenny (@kennywest82) on
After the orchids I just kind of relaxed and wrote/brainstormed for a future book idea. It's warm out. Woo.
I'm going to sidetrack for a minute...
My latest obsession is this band called Wintergatan. I believe it means Milkyway in Swedish, although... Don't bet your life on that. In fact, don't bet your life on anything I write on this blog. Most of the time I post I've either had entirely too much caffeinated beverages, or an alcoholic beverage.
Or, I'm just down on myself about not having what it takes to get whatever girl I have a crush on at the moment to like me back. My current love interest or "Well, there goes another one..." girl is this voice actress that I was messaging back and forth with (by messaging I mean we sent each other like 2 messages) and she does the voice for various things online one of them being the NY Public Library blog. She's like a model and actress and all that... What she's doing on a dating site is beyond me... She's seriously a catch and a half but hey.. I guess even actresses have trouble dating. My last message to her is "You have a cute voice."
Smooth.
She still hasn't responded.
She told me we have one mutual friend on Facebook but refused to tell me who it was. It's killing me. I guess I'll never know.
Oh well. On to the next one. Who knows... maybe the next girl I meet will be that one that I make it all the way to the marriage and family thing with...
I'm willing to bet my life miss mystery next girl just being another in a long line of dating let downs though. I wouldn't be surprised if her last name is Letdown even.
"Hi... My last name is Letdown. I come from a long line of Letdowns."
"Well, hello there Miss Letdown... It's nice to meet you. Shall we get this coffee date over with so we can talk to one another awkwardly over text for another couple days and pretend like we're both still interested when we already decided that we aren't but we don't want to flat out say it to one another at the end of the date?"
"Sure. Sounds good to me!"
So anyways... Wintergatan. They're the ones that have this marble machine video. It's FANTASTIC. I'm completely obsessed with it. Just go on youtube and type... Actually here...
Actually if you really go back and watch their previous videos you can really get a feel for where the inspiration of this band lies. The one guy is obsessed with music boxes. He's all about them. So really this is a passion of his and not just, oh I'm going to make a random video and hope it goes viral. There's WAY more to it than that. I'd love to meet this band. They seem like truly interesting people.
Next stop on my staycation was Chaddsford Winery. I had a glass of their Phillies wine. It was good. I sat there for a little and worked out a couple of things for timing of the end of my book. I have an idea of how I want to end it, but it's not entirely worked out. After about 45 minutes there I went to my second winery stop at 10 Gallon Hat Winery. All I can say about their two wines is....
HOLY GOD. This is the holy grail of wine.
These two wines are amazing. Their cab is mouthwatering. And their malbec is to die for.
There are subtle notes of "this wine is amazeballs" and hints of "well shit, you bet your ass I'll have another".
Unfortunately neither are available in bottles to take home. So you have to buy a glass at the winery. I only had the one little glass since the winery was close to closing. The winemistress poured me an itty bitty little glass to sip on while I did some writing. I'm not sure what the lady that pours the wine is called... We'll go with winemistress.
So me and my little glass of the cab closed down the place. At 6pm on the dot they kicked me out as I was finishing the last sentence on my latest book chapter.
Seriously if you ever get a chance... and you enjoy red wine. The malbec and the cab at 10 Gallon Hat Winery... hands down possibly the best red wine I've ever had.
To close out my day I'm here at the Gryphon Cafe in Rosemont. I've never been here It's a sweet little spot. There's an open mic, which I had no idea was happening, but I decided to stick around after my cup of coffee and listen while I blogged. Bloggity blog blog blog.
Up next? I'll head home and go to sleep after feeding the cats. The cats are probably annoyed at this point. They usually eat around 6. It's going to be close to 10 when I finally get home. They ate a few hours late, so they can wait.
That's my staycation day one. Roll credits. Insert "Vacation" by The Go-Go's. Just substitute staycation for vacation.
Staycation all I ever wanted. Staycation got to get away. Well, that's my blog for today.
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