Do You Know...

...what I did today? Can you guess? That's right. Nothing.

I had grand plans for today, amazing plans even, and yet failed to accomplish any of them.

Instead I sat on the sofa. I worked on my hiking playlist. And I took a series of naps.

I went grocery shopping early in the morning. As I brought the last of the groceries in I was assaulted by a wasp. Man, do I hate wasps. (And by 'assaulted by' I mean, it flew within 35 feet of me, lol.) It spent the next four or so hours hunting crickets in the gravel outside my window, and I spent those hours alternating between being paralyzed with fear, needlessly swatting the air around me, obsessively researching wasps, and taking pictures of it with my shiny new camera (for both identification and archival purposes).

Thankfully you called me and distracted me. An aneurism was imminent.

When we got off the phone, exhausted from the wasp drama, I promptly passed the heck out.


Instead of dozing on the couch like the laziest creature on earth, I should have been out hiking. I should have gone to the White Tanks and at LEAST hiked the waterfall trail. I should have gone up to Tonto and hiked down to the bridge and read a book. I should have gone to the botanical garden to take pictures of the sunset.

But I didn't. Instead I sat on the couch.

Part of it was the wasp issue.

Part of it is the ongoing fear that I will accidentally hurt myself and not be able to complete my R2R.

My knee was acting up, on and off, this past week. As a result I'm slightly on edge, and possibly a little more paranoid than I need to be. At this point, however, I'm too invested in this adventure for it to hold me back. I WILL do this hike, and I WILL finish it, even if I have to cut the whole damn leg off and whittle myself a new one on the trail. It is going to happen. I swear on all things holy.

That's really all I know. I'm going crazy waiting for my hike to get here. And once it's done I'll be going crazy waiting until my trip up there arrives. It's basically an entire month of doldrums. Just space in between where I am and where I want to be. Lol.

At any rate, I miss your face. And I can't wait to see you. I hope your day was more adventurous than mine was, and that you were at least slightly more productive than I. Lovelovelove.