I blame fearsclave

[mousme]

It's all his fault, really, for lending me all those books about people climbing Mount Everest with little more than a compass, some trail mix, cleated boots and a thick woolen scarf. ^_-

Okay, maybe I'm exaggerating a little bit (and, to be entirely honest, George Mallory did in fact get himself killed doing just that).

Still. The slightly obsessive and Oooh!Shiny part of me is now singing a siren's song in my ear, telling me how cool it would be to take a winter vacation somewhere where there would only be me, maybe another trusted partner or two, my snowshoes, a backpack and a tent. Maybe a small gas stove.

Like, say, in Alaska. Or the Northwest Territories.


Now, the sensible, realistic part of me is still around. It pipes up now and then to remind me that I can't make it up Peel street from René Lévesque to Pine Ave. without getting seriously short of breath. It points out that I'm not in good shape, that I have little to no endurance, and that I would have no idea what to do with myself on that kind of trip anyway.

Then the other little voice pipes up and says: "Yeah, but it would be so cool!"

The first little voice then rejoins that I should spend my (as yet theoretical) hard-earned vacation on seeing friends, maybe going to Europe if I have enough money put aside... useful things like that.

Then the other little voice pipes up and says: "Yeah, but it would be so cool!"

You get the picture.


The conclusion I have drawn from this is that I need a lot more vacation time than I currently have (which is none right now, but might go up to one whole whopping week per year if I get hired), so that I can see my friends and go on an adventure. I also need a lot more money than I have right now.

Still, a girl can dream, right?


This has been brought to you by Phnee's Ongoing Campaign To Avoid Excessive Introspection. Thank you for listening.

Comments

Winter holiday?

[fearsclave.livejournal.com]

It would be so cool.

Am v. chuffed about this flintlock thing BTW. Have I mentioned that you don't need a license or have to register them? And that they are really very inexpensive? And that ammunition costs are peanuts? And that Baron Sports stocks them? And that they're all antique-looking and funky?

Come on... you know you want one... just think of how cool winter camping in Alaska would be if we had to hunt our own food...

Re: Winter holiday?

[fearsclave.livejournal.com]

http://www.lymanproducts.com/lymanproducts/rifles.htm

I really like the Deerstalker (with a flint lock). And look at how pretty and shiny the stainless Deerstalker is. $350, cash & carry...

Re: Winter holiday?

[mousme.livejournal.com]

That's very shiny...

:::shakes self:::

However, it's also the price of a sofa. I can't sit on a gun. At least, not without a great deal of danger and discomfort. ;)

Re: Winter holiday?

[fearsclave.livejournal.com]

Tell ya what... you buy the sofa, I buy the flintlock and provide the back porch, and we go huntin'.

Deal?

Re: Winter holiday?

[mousme.livejournal.com]

Deal. :)

[whiskeygirl8.livejournal.com]

You have to come here! We have the Ouachita Mountains nearby (really, just hills to people who get to see real mountains on a regular basis) and you could practice there.

[mousme.livejournal.com]

Oh, I fully plan on going to see you at some point. We have a date for line dancing, right? :)

[whiskeygirl8.livejournal.com]

Hell, yeah! :)

[swestrup]

I was just talking to the 80-year old ex-nurse who lives two doors down from me. By the time I get back from Denmark, she'll have signed onto a merchant ship to work her passage to antarctica where she plans to do some hiking.

So far she's visited 121 countries that way.

[ai731.livejournal.com]

See now you've got me thinking: "Phnee has a car. I have money for gas. I haven't gone hiking in the Adirondacks for *years* We're both out of shape so we could do a nice easy little mountain. Tass is away for three weeks. September is a great time to go hiking in the Dacks. Oh. Band Practice on Saturday afternoons. Hmmmm...."

[mousme.livejournal.com]

I know. So many variables to track...

If we can find an alternate day for practice or something, I'm all for going hiking. :)

Geez.

[fearsclave.livejournal.com]

whiskeygirl8 is much more into gun pr0n than you are.

Hiking in 'dacks?

*ears perk up*

Re: Geez.

[mousme.livejournal.com]

Guns are very nice and shiny, but I like them better in books and movies than in real life. Honestly, what I might do with a gun terrifies the bejeezus out of me.

Re: Geez.

[fearsclave.livejournal.com]

Me too. That's healthy. It's the people who aren't terrified of the potential that are the ones to worry about.