Mel was on travel in florida all last week. His comment was his meetings changed tone on Wednesday with the customer and yeah. That was a thing. I'm going to stop clicking on CNN and just read things from the foreign perspective....I just can't take it.

Anyhoo...I was good and got us mostly packed up and ready before Mel got home. I had not loaded the van but got everything in the trailer with the help of Dom. I guess I missed a few minor things but Thursday night was pretty relaxing before an event that I've had. I didn't feel great but we were managing. My congestion of the weekend before was still present off and on and I was tired. My stomach was also not happy, I'm sure its been stress and too much drinking and not eating well. And being constipated is not great. Camping and being constipated is even better. I got a bit of relief but things are still not happy.

So Friday we got up, got moving finished up the final things. I got benton to school and then loaded myself into the van. I ran to get the tires checked and that took a while but I was glad I did since they were only half full. Dear husband...when I say they look low...they are low. It was funny and not. Got to site...the wind was annoying on the highway but we got things setup using impact drivers which was amazing. We will totally be doing that from now on once we get all the stakes to do that. We also only had 4 of us camping and a super minimal kitchen and that was okay. We had fun and made do. Had lots of good conversations after a long court with friends and beer. Dominique was awesome and just ripped out my shawl versus trying to help me figure out a lifeline since it was like 20 rows at the beginning. yeah I should have done that but yeah. Need the moral support blah blah blah. I did manage to do some spinning. The first night was super effing cold and the new tent is larger volume than the old so the tent heater did not keep up. We hit vigils and didn't get into bed until 130am and I was too cold. I could not warm up until just about 330am. And then I slept poorly. Got up at 8 cause there was coffee. Magdalen was making hash over the fire, Dominique made fruit filled oatmeal and it was a nice morning. Got dressed for court but I was just spinning and watching. It was a long court with a MOD, Knighting and a driveby laurel. I just have to remember that being a peer is a spectrum and sometimes folks improve when they are elevated and I hope that is the case.

Ahem.

So after court and lunch I sat with the Hrafn ladies and we chatted as I noted before. We got the cloak back from a former house member and that portion of drama is closed. Meandered around chatting with people with Dominique in tow. It was a nice afternoon. She made japanese mushroom soup with rice balls and we had a nice evening around the fire. Sharing mead and stories. Some one appeared with smores makings and then Coradini arrived with sword skewers for folks to use. Lots of fun but I think everyone was tired. In bed by 11pm. I made sure to point the heater at my side of the bed. Put my legwarmers on and that helped me keep warm. It was also not in the 20s F, it was in the 30s which helped a lot. We all slept well and then had a leisurely morning of packing up and the tear down was good. We had plenty of help and were offsite by just after noon. Got home, parked trailers and unloaded cars and then collapsed into showers and naps. I was not feeling great and I went to bed early and so did the boys.

I was stuffy and my GI track still not happy. Managed to work most of a day yesterday and then I napped for 3 hours. Today I WFH as well and made it a whole day but I'm tired and will rest a bit before trying to put things away from the trip.

Well, like lferion, I also had to explain that yes, there were other candidates on the ballot than rep/dems...I was the only person to vote that way the entire day at my polling place.

Another funny thing is that archer64's name always comes up when they are searching for my name in the ballot books. So much fun that...nope, he's family but that's not me.