Kurtdesign1
The Thinker
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My wife and I decided to take a short trip to SW Michigan over the holiday to help move her Cousin and Fiance into a new apartment. It wasn't a crazy move but they were coming from 800 miles or so away in Georgia.
Long story short, what was supposed to be only a 12 hour down and dirty move turned into a nearly 4 day experience. The snow started just when we were arriving and didn't let up for nearly 36 hours. Where we were got about 16" in a night and perhaps another 8 or 10" progressively throughout the weekend. I had one pair of jeans, one pair of pajama pants and a few sweatshirts. I didn't even have any additional socks or underwear!
Luckily, her cousins are great people. Anyone else and this NY weekend would have been a complete waste. Being stranded in a 500sq.ft. apartment with only dry pantry food like "add water only biscuits & gravy" or individual day old bagel house cream cheese packets could have been a problem. Instead, it turned into the first time in my life that I spent hours & hours playing stupid board games and laughing uncontrollably after having only drunk decaf coffee.
Every once in a while we need breaks like this to remind us to forget about the crap of daily life and stop to smell the roses that are true friends. I just thought each of us could use this little reminder that problems are never truly as bad as they seem.
Long story short, what was supposed to be only a 12 hour down and dirty move turned into a nearly 4 day experience. The snow started just when we were arriving and didn't let up for nearly 36 hours. Where we were got about 16" in a night and perhaps another 8 or 10" progressively throughout the weekend. I had one pair of jeans, one pair of pajama pants and a few sweatshirts. I didn't even have any additional socks or underwear!
Luckily, her cousins are great people. Anyone else and this NY weekend would have been a complete waste. Being stranded in a 500sq.ft. apartment with only dry pantry food like "add water only biscuits & gravy" or individual day old bagel house cream cheese packets could have been a problem. Instead, it turned into the first time in my life that I spent hours & hours playing stupid board games and laughing uncontrollably after having only drunk decaf coffee.
Every once in a while we need breaks like this to remind us to forget about the crap of daily life and stop to smell the roses that are true friends. I just thought each of us could use this little reminder that problems are never truly as bad as they seem.
