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I made my reservations last night for flights to/from Norfolk, Virginia, for a most-of-week family reunion mostly with people I barely know.
To say I have reservations is an understatement.
Some of the relatives I know best will not be coming, for one reason or another. I'd hoped to get a chance to catch up, but their lives are good and busy and do not allow this week of hanging around just then.
Of the people coming, there are my parents, who are good people, bu t large doses of them seem to leave me uncomfortably like the sullen 15-year-old me, even when the (more) grown-up me inside is shouting that I don't have to act like that. There are also many relatives I have met 0-1 times in my life. I have no great hol es in my life that these family members (some on the order of second cousin once removed) are likely to fill. I'd not choose to have a vacation with them, except that Dutiful Oldest Child still hasn't figured out how to not feel so guilty telling her moth er she doesn't want to do this when she knows her mother wants her to do it, so she caves, though there are other things she'd rather do with her vacation time than go to North Carolina's Outer Banks in hurricane season.
I believe I am going to be the o nly religious fanatic in residence, so I get to figure out what food I'll be schlepping with me (luckily, no Shabbat is involved). I suspect I'll focus on proteins and some starch, figuring I'll be able to buy veggies and fruit there. Still, a week of not-cooked/cold foods is not appealing, especially when everyone else is likely to be going out for interesting restaurant fare (this is my whine, I can assume that all restaurant food will be interesting and yummy).
I have no idea what activities other than eating and socializing have been planned. I got a AAA guidebook, which should help with suggestions for local attractions, but I have the sneaking suspicion that this would'v e been a great time to read the Robin Hobbs books, if I hadn't already gulped them down this spring. I don't know if anyone will be interested in games, so I'm not sure if I should bring any/what to bring.
Feh. I wish I were looking forward to the one vacation I actually have planned this summer.
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I made my reservations last night for flights to/from Norfolk, Virginia, for a most-of-week family reunion mostly with people I barely know.
To say I have reservations is an understatement.
Some of the relatives I know best will not be coming, for one reason or another. I'd hoped to get a chance to catch up, but their lives are good and busy and do not allow this week of hanging around just then.
Of the people coming, there are my parents, who are good people, bu t large doses of them seem to leave me uncomfortably like the sullen 15-year-old me, even when the (more) grown-up me inside is shouting that I don't have to act like that. There are also many relatives I have met 0-1 times in my life. I have no great hol es in my life that these family members (some on the order of second cousin once removed) are likely to fill. I'd not choose to have a vacation with them, except that Dutiful Oldest Child still hasn't figured out how to not feel so guilty telling her moth er she doesn't want to do this when she knows her mother wants her to do it, so she caves, though there are other things she'd rather do with her vacation time than go to North Carolina's Outer Banks in hurricane season.
I believe I am going to be the o nly religious fanatic in residence, so I get to figure out what food I'll be schlepping with me (luckily, no Shabbat is involved). I suspect I'll focus on proteins and some starch, figuring I'll be able to buy veggies and fruit there. Still, a week of not-cooked/cold foods is not appealing, especially when everyone else is likely to be going out for interesting restaurant fare (this is my whine, I can assume that all restaurant food will be interesting and yummy).
I have no idea what activities other than eating and socializing have been planned. I got a AAA guidebook, which should help with suggestions for local attractions, but I have the sneaking suspicion that this would'v e been a great time to read the Robin Hobbs books, if I hadn't already gulped them down this spring. I don't know if anyone will be interested in games, so I'm not sure if I should bring any/what to bring.
Feh. I wish I were looking forward to the one vacation I actually have planned this summer.
t