This week is my Spring Break. B and I went to ATx for the week and drove to the DFw yesterday. I can honestly say that I enjoyed my trip. Austin was great, SXSW was in full swing and I had my fair share of the hippies. (I'm not rude; my best girl friends from high school are what most would call hippies, although they deny it.)
The best thing about road trips-- all of the inside jokes you make with the person/persons you travel with. I don't want to forget the things we made up:
-Social Dresses. This became our term for any and every girl in and around Austin wearing a dress that cut well above their knees, and usually well below the neck. The dress more often than not was made of cotton in funky colors and prints. The sluttier the dress the more "social" it was.
-Hunting and eating horses. Funny and I have no idea why. We just talked about hunting some down and consuming them.
- "We need more lemon pledge" This is from a Family Guy episode-- talking in this voice throughout the trip was mandatory. We were staying in a Red Roof Inn (which has become some sort of tradition apparently) and the woman cleaning our rooms talked this way. Yes, we might go to hell.
- Any and every reference to UT losing to Tech this past football season
- Weirdies vs. Normies. It's a battle for the city, the capital, the world. These were how we classified the excessive amount of people congregating in Austin. You were either a weirdie or a normie depending on appearance, attitude and accessories.
I know there were more but I'll have to edit and update this entry later.
It is going to be very tragic for me when I have to leave this man. I know he cares for me and I know we'll still be in touch, but I am terrified of how horrible it will feel when I move away. He could care less about it, I know that.
Something else vacation makes me realize-- I don't mind being away from technology and media. The two things that mean most to my career?!?! I didn't have television, movies, Internet, news, advertising, Facebook, email, text messaging or anything for a whole week and I absolutely loved it. We were outside, walking around, breathing wonderfully fresh air, exploring. We were able to talk, and lay around and joke, and be completely lazy in general. This scares me a little, and then I think maybe that's what a vacation is, getting away from EVERYTHING. Even though I love media and technology. The downside is being WAY behind when you return to reality.
