Vacation’s end

Today was a wonderful day. We visited Greg and Liz Dean of Real Life comics. They have a beautiful apartment in downtown Sacramento. They claim that the furnishings were “all old stuff from our old place” but everything matched and Liz’s talent for design showed everywhere. They also claimed to be “not moved in yet” but I couldn’t tell that either. Best of all was the fact that despite the fact that they have three cats and I’m seriously allergic to cats, I simply didn’t wheeze up at all. The only explanation I can figure for that is that they kept the house so spotlessly clean that I simply wasn’t exposed to enough cat dander. I wish my house looked as nice as their apartment did.

Greg and Liz were fun to hang out with too. We had a marvelous dinner at a Sushi place. I’m not really fond of sushi, but the restaurant also had the best tempura that I’ve ever eaten so I was really happy. Most of the time was spent just visiting and there was no lack of subjects for discussion. I wish we lived closer to them so that we could get together more often.

Another really good thing about today was having 3 hours of drive time during which Howard and I had nothing to do but talk to each other. I like talking with Howard. The trip home was especially important because I was able to talk through several things that I have been sitting in the back of my brain and causing me to feel stressed lately. I should probably write them down and the resolutions Howard pointed me toward, but I’m just too tired to sort them properly in my brain. It can wait a couple of days until I get back home.

We drive home tomorrow. I didn’t get all the things that I wanted out of this vacation, but I got enough to be content and staying longer wouldn’t gain me anything but buffer stress from Howard. The suitcases are all packed, everything is ready to be loaded, so as long as no one else comes down with stomach flu between now and tomorrow at 10, I’m headed home. I’ll be glad to get there.