I have finally gotten back to working 2nd shift, and slowly the balance and rhythm of my life, my way is coming back and I am getting things done, house cleaner, eating more healthy and am happier.
And I still have 3 single vacation days left to schedule/use in the next 2 months. Which can be a good thing and as I have a road trip I want to make, to a huge fabric warehouse north of Minneapolis, over 7.5 hour drive, and am already looking at Airbnb accommodations and thinking about how big that place is, and wanting to not battle the weekend crowds it probably has, yes, I have already put thought into this trip I hope to make.
Now the problem seems that a friend thinks it’s just the ‘girl’ trip ‘we’ should make. Of course neither of us have a car she thinks she could comfortably make that trip in, we should ‘rent’ a vehicle for the trip. In an area it’s almost impossible to find a rental car! And she doesn’t sew! And it’s my bloody vacation time and will be my bloody funds paying for this trip.
Yes, I did make a winter vacation trip down to KY, last February and yes I did take someone with me and yes, her child too. And that’s not going to happen again. Weather problems, whiny adult and child problems, phone and mapping with phone plugged into car problems.
I do care about my few close friends but I also know that this is MY vacation time, MY $$ and my project and I am absolutely not going to take anyone along that’s not a doll out of my doll collection. Not even a doll club member who also sews. It’s a fabric hunting/buying trip, it’s my luxury fun and I don’t plan to waste my $ on a rental car when I know I can make the trip there and back with my own car and I am not wanting company. And when would work for her is NOT when I hope to make this trip, I want to play in that huge fabric warehouse on a Monday, or a Tuesday, and absolutely not on a Saturday or Sunday. And I want 2 nights at the Airbnb and to go to that warehouse more than once. I’ve seen videos and know I need 2-3 visits as the first will be a huge overload of all the fabrics, from wools to linen to silks to awesome quilting cottons to trims. Yes, I plan to have some lists, yes I know what I want to hunt out first, wools and especially the clearance/remnants bin for wools. I have a wool quilt project in mind and that’s part of why I want this trip. Linens are awesome and good quilting cottons, 100% cottons that are lightweight and would work for doll sewing, fine scaled trims that would work for doll sewing.
Being back on 2nd shift means I have studio time before work and I am actually sewing and creating again. That feeds my soul, and makes me smile. Yes, I do have a lot of fabrics but not any wools that wold work for the quilt I want to make. Yes, I have cottons for quilts but I want some things that are or look like they would be very suitable for quilts from the 1920-early 1940’s and play with my Kansas City Star newspaper quilt patterns that I’ve had for so many years.
And I want some very much needed away from home, the house, the cats and without any problems or people to just breath and to regenerate and to enjoy the time, the place on my schedule and without having to take consideration of another person. It’s not selfish, and as she’s married and has vacations with her husband, something I don’t have, it’s not like she doesn’t ever get trips or a vacation away from home.
I will work it out, sort it out but right now I just want to whine a little. I know it’s not even scheduled time off from work, I need to talk with my supervisor about the time to see how much conflict/problem it will be to get the Monday/Tuesday that I want before I even book with Airbnb, and that’s something I want to do before too long. And yes, I know the weather could cancel my trip, it’s winter, it will be winter all February and probably all of March and it’s going farther north, and yes, the winter has been harder there than here but I’m going to hope I can go, and get started with plans. And it will be a ME only trip, dolls don’t count.
