So my friend is having an open house for her live in Father's 90th Birthday. (Bless her care taking heart!)
Fact number two or three is she lives 1.5-2 hours north of where I live in a super nice log cabin home. With food.
That being said, I have been planning on surprising her with a visit to her open house. Even considered inviting another of our H.S. friends along for the ride.
But then..... I googled how to get there without driving the INTERSTATE which causes me undo anxiety due to feelings of abandonment when I see too far ahead where the road "don't" end. Yes I know the proper grammar is, doesn't end. So I googled GPS to her home without Highways. The time would be approximately two hours up, an hour sitting or standing around eating due to lack of knowing anyone, and two hours back. Not that I do not know how to mingle. Also having to cross one long bridge over water which could ultimately kill me due to my total fear of dying in water. I know I know....fear it and it will come. So erase that please.
I have decided it would be and is more enjoyable calling her on occasion from a grocery store parking lot with news of this and that. We both laugh much during these phone calls. No bridges over water, no guilt on her end for not having time to sit / babysit me and whoever I convinced to take the trek with me. I will say if I were retired and more laid back I would go, relax, eat a bit, stay longer, and get back home before dark considering I was the 1% whose cataract surgery messed up. I cant see to drive at night and would drive off the bridge and die in my most feared way. Erase that .....now.
Am I kidding? Maybe.
Have an amazing open house my friend!! I will be thinking of you and yours while I bake cookies.
Be Safe, Be Well, Be Happy and get rich so you can hire a driver who isn't afraid to cross bridges! (over water)
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