I knew I had started an entry about my upcoming vacation(s), but it didn’t appear on my actual site and lo and behold, it’s simply an empty draft with the title picked out.
You know what’s amazing? Managing almost 40 hours of work this week. I closed Saturday & Sunday nights, worked an 8 hour mid on Friday, picked up a shift on Thursday and then my usual Monday & Tuesday, minus being let to go home early on Monday since it was slow. Had I not gone home early, I would’ve/could’ve1 gotten to that 40 hour point. Maybe. If they let that happen. I’m not savvy on the rules of my company’s labor hours…
Anyway, I have some decent time off coming to me2. The weekend of the 25th is my step-sister-in-law’s wedding followed two days later by the husband’s 24th birthday. Who knows what he’ll end up planning for that.
A mere few days after that I’ll be making my way up to Silver Lake Resort for the week over 4th of July. An annual family vacation that’s been occurring since before I was born. I absolutely love it up there, spending a week in the June Lake Loop, just east of Yosemite… It’s where we reconnect with distant cousins and old family friends3. I plan on taking time with my camera and trying to take some good pictures of places like Mono Lake and Bodie ghost town.
I took some decent, if not good, pictures of Bodie last year with my parents’ camera, however I forgot to keep track of which buildings were which. I don’t think I’ll ever get to even the “amateur” stage of photography since I just don’t do it enough, but I like to take pictures of stuff that I love and want to be able to do so in a … good way? Not to mention, I don’t think I’ll ever learn enough about it to go beyond the camera I have now. For a point & shoot, it’s got some nifty settings to mess around with, but I won’t get myself a DSLR. As much as it’d be awesome to have talent and use for one, I just don’t see myself as one of those people. I lose steam in hobbies much too quickly. Yup. I’m one of those people. I try a bunch of different things and end up putting it to the side to never4 be picked up again.
Anyway… The parents and I are still trying to figure out exactly how I’ll be getting to & from since they’re staying two weeks and my brother nor the husband won’t be going up this year. It’s just a matter of figuring out the preferred logistics. One way is taking one of the family cars and driving myself, following my parents and driving myself back to L.A., or riding with my parents and coming back with my uncle5 or a couple of other ideas. Initially, there was a possibility of my flying out of Mammoth and back down to San Diego, but I don’t think that’ll be necessary.
After all this hubbub will be my quarter-of-a-century-old birthday in August. I have no idea what I’ll be doing for it, but I did take time off to cover that, my parents’ 28th wedding anniversary and my dad’s 55th birthday. All of that is between the 19th & 23rd.
Needless to say, I’m kind of excited for the majority of summer, even if I do hate the season itself. *squee* 
- Why does the Chrome autocorrect not recognize “could’ve” as a legit contraction? Is it not? I’m confused
↩ - I put in for this shit MONTHS in advanced just to be sure I got it! ↩
- Most of whom I seem to hardly remember from my days as a kid, which is when I was a LOT more sociable. ↩
- Almost. Some things I might come back to time & again… like video games. ↩
- I’ll have to ask first, of course. ↩
