Posts Tagged With: returning home

Day 5001: Ideal Vacations

Now that I’m back in my ideal home in Massachusetts, I can safely say that my recent solo adventure in Switzerland was one of my ideal vacations.

For me, what makes an ideal vacation?

  • Quality time with someone I love (in this case, me!).
  • Non-stop flights.
  • Traveling the country side.
  • Great views.
  • Beautiful sounds, including music.
  • Local animals.
  • Interesting architecture.
  • Art.
  • Quiet moments.
  • Yummy food.
  • Challenging old fears (like my fears of heights, getting lost, and shame).
  • Engaging with kind strangers.
  • No pressure.
  • Gaining new perspectives.
  • The freedom to come and go as I please.
  • Maintaining connections and routines that are important to me (like blogging).
  • An escape from non-stop news about despicable world leaders.
  • Not a lot of painful inclines or bugs!
  • Approaching new experiences with beginner’s mind.

Here is a brief video from my ideal vacation which I may not have shared here before.

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Do you see ideal vacations in my other images for today?

The food I have on my ideal vacations can’t beat my husband’s home-made masterpieces.

No matter what my ideal vacation, I always take the Daily Bitch along.

What is your ideal vacation?

Thanks to all who joined me for this ideal-vacations post, including YOU!

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Day 1707: Finishes

Now that I’ve finished my latest trip to Edinburgh, there are several finishes concerning me back in the United States. Those finishes include


this screwed-up finish on our new dining room table, which needs to be sent back to the furniture warehouse for refinishing,


this interesting rectangle of paint where Michael finished some repair work on a wall while I was finishing things in Scotland, and


my unpacking from my trip, which, as you can see, is nowhere near finished.

Because the long flights and layovers pretty much finished me off yesterday, I have only one other photo to show you, which I’m saving for the finish.

Here’s one of my favorite musical memories of finishes ….

It’s the late great Dudley Moore playing a piano piece with many finishes.

As always, I shall finish my daily blog post with gratitude to all, including YOU!

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