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Oh, sweet vacation.

I love you.

In fact, I don’t think I can express quite how much.

Not because there are rainbows and lollipops and flying ponies and sparkly flowers popping up everywhere, mind you (how scary would that be?) but simply because you show me the Other.

The Not My Normal Life.

The Absence Of My Routine.

The Let Go Of The Pressure.

The Stop Thinking About That.

The Sleep In A Little.

The Just Be.

And I swear, it shouldn’t take me a thousand mile journey to discover any of it, but that’s how I am.

So… thank you.

Thank you for bringing me here.

Thank you for windows down on the highway.

Thank you for warm tortilla soup and good, fresh bread.

Thank you for being able to laugh at things that no one else needs to understand.

Thank you for sand in between my magazine pages.

Thank you for lemonade sherbet in a waffle cone.

Thank you for whales and dolphins and all their magic.

Thank you for hair ropy from the salty waves, twisted on top of my head.

Thank you for $5 shirts that match my eyes.

Thank you for coffee consumed in pursuit of flavour, and not simply survival.

Thank you for late-night chats about everything and nothing.

Thank you for freckles appearing like constellations on my nose.

Thank you for fog giving way to mid-morning sunshine.

Thank you for cheeks sore from grinning.

For this, you definitely get a postcard.

Love,

Meg

I’m beyond happy to be here.

I can’t even tell you how much.

Everything is lovely.

I promise to write like a good girl soon, but until then, how about some pictures?

Mmmm.

Oh, yes… and driving fun:

Love to all. We’re doing well.

And after a midnight run to In N Out, a quick stopover in Coronado, and much laughing, it’s time to sign off.

But I’ll update you all tomorrow.

Dude.

Life is complex.

There are many details.

I seem to be wading through approximately 14,000 of them right now.

And drinking coffee.

Because coffee makes it all make sense.

WHY IS THIS PHOTO SHOWING UP ON IMAGE SEARCHES FOR SAN DIEGO?

I totally plan to do that when we’re there.

Tomorrow evening, we’re dancing off into a Californian sunset, and I cannot TELL you how EXCITING this is.

Dry air. Sunshine. Beaches. Palm trees. Peet’s coffee. A new shift key for my iBook at a Genius Bar.

MAGIC, I say. MAGIC.

But before this can happen, I have to:

Finish a ton of work
Do something to my hair to fix it
Answer 89,000 emails
Do my laundry
Pack my suitcase and carry-on
Clean my house
Run errands
Pay bills

WHEW.

I’m a tad scatterish.

If you have any:

packing advice
news on international flying regulation changes
haiku about busyness
questions for the universe
lottery windfalls to share

… just let me know!

Back at it!

1. Juice (how much I love it, how it can change your life, what kind I bought today, do you want some?)

2. My gray hairs (how many there are, how horrifying they appear to me, how I can no longer date 22 year-olds as a result)

3. Windows XP (how much I loathe it, how often it crashes)

4. Blogging (how funny my commenters are, what I’m going to write about next, who I wish I could write like…)

5. Insomnia (how fun sleep would be if I only knew how, what I got done instead of sleeping)

6. My total physical disrepair (how it appears my ear is falling off, what is that rash on my leg, is one eye larger than the other?)

7. Things I should be saving for (everything I don’t have, what do you mean, stop buying coffee?)

8. The weather (why is it raining? why is it only sunny on weekdays? what is it like in san diego right now?)

What do you talk about so often that you drive everyone nuts?

From Chris, who already totally made me smile with this:

“My daughter Mandy (who you might remember did a Meg Fowler CHOOSE bulletin board at Radford University) has now turned it into an ice breaker game!

They asked Mandy “what do you call this game?” and she said “Meg’s Choose Game”. And thus you continue to be immortalized!”

HOW FREAKIN’ COOL IS THAT!

Just click “either or” on my categories over there to see more Choose Ye fun.

I’m thinking through 8,000,000 things in my life right now, from big issues to tiny wonderings.

Your answers always give me a ton of perspective.

So!

1. Why do you live where you live?
2. Why do you do the job you do?
3. Why are you with the person you’re with?
4. If you could change one thing about your life today, what would it be?
5. What is the greatest source of happiness in your life?
6. What is the greatest source of discontent in your life?
7. If you were handed $10,000 today, what would you do with it?
8. What is your favourite quality in a friend?
9. What is an unforgivable mistake in a friendship?
10. What is a true relationship dealbreaker for you?