Up in these here parts (aka Canada) we are so blessed as to be enjoying the first long weekend of summer with Monday being Victoria Day. Yes, I know it’s not technically summer for over a month, but tell that to anyone in these parts and they will tell you it’s the first long weekend of summer, and you’d be a fool to not ‘think’ it’s summer here right now as it is over 30 degrees (celsius). I won’t be needing any luggage for my long weekend though as I’m not actually going anywhere. We tossed around the thought of camping, but since we feel so behind in any landscaping and gardening we want to do, we decided to stick around this weekend and see if we can’t make some headway on a few projects we are antsy to get underway. A part of me wishes I was setting up camp right now and getting dinner cooked over a fire, but another part of me knows that as I am sleeping in my own bed tonight, actually sleeping and not trying to drown out the 10 various parties going on throughout the campsite, I will be glad that I chose to stay put. So here’s to long weekends and getting things done…

Just thinking..maybe one day there will be a pill you can take that will magically make any excess weight you no longer desire to be packing around, just disappear. Maybe there already is a diet pill that works. I wouldn’t really know as I’ve never gone down the diet pill road before. Not that I haven’t thought about it, maybe even desired it, that by simply taking a pill I could safely lose weight and not worry about it ever coming back. Somehow, though, I have never bought into the temptation of these miracle weight loss drugs, or so they claim, probably because I’ve heard too many horror stories about what’s in these wonderpills and what they can do to people. Or perhaps it’s the nagging voice in the back of my head that says, you don’t live in fantasyland and you can’t lose weight by taking a pill and a pill alone. It actually would take some work on my part to make it happen. So, instead of looking to a pill to solve my problems, I do..nothing. Well, not exactly nothing, but not as much as I could I suppose as I lie in wait for the day I can pop a pill that will make it all go away…and then I wake up from fantasyland.

Today I would have loved to curl up in a hammock chair whilst I waited for all the non-existant people to show up for our garage sale. To say I was disappointed by the turnout would be a vast understatement and as I sat there twiddling my thumbs I pondered all the many and varied things I could and would rather be doing on a Saturday. Instead of doing any of them I sat there and watched people drive in, sometimes get out of their vehicle, often times not, and drive out sans purchase. That was the 20 or so people that actually even showed up to the whole thing. Of course, when I placed my ad for it on Wednesday, little did I know that there was going to be a huge community garage sale in another area of town. Or that the ad for our garage sale would show up directly underneath the ad for that huge sale. Uh huh, to say I was displeased does not even begin to cover it. We had more people and sold 4 times as much when we had a garage sale in OCTOBER than we did today. What’s wrong with this picture? I think people were just looking for bargains, aka, a bunch of crap and weren’t interested in the items we were trying to sell. Oh well…off to the next avenue of sale…classifieds…I wish myself luck.

Well, maybe not quite that time just yet, but it’s getting there. The time of year where I start to fantasize about travel trailers. Seems a strange thing to ‘fantasize’ about, but when you have camped in a tent the past few years of life, a travel trailer starts to seem like a fantasy/luxury for someone who loves to camp. Don’t get me wrong, tenting is ok, would be better if we had a bigger tent to do it in, and even better if we had a small trailer. I certainly am not after a 50 foot (or however big they are making those things these days) house on wheels. It’s kinda funny b/c come camping season when people are out and about with their trailers, the boy and I often spot nice little ones that we think would be just great to be able to go camping in. Then again, we can’t exactly tow anything, let alone a trailer with the vehicle we have now, so…tenting it is…for the foreseeable future.