home's where the heart is....
Sorry about slacking on my blog, I know a lot of you leap joyously out of bed each and every morning to see if yours truly has come up with some new random genius/idiotic ramblings and dash madly to your computer. My apologies.
We had this upcoming weekend off, so I cashed in some of the 2.7 million frequent flyer miles I had racked up due to work over the years and flew 'home' to Minnesota. Now, I'm originally from Texas (Houston aka Swampy Muggy Crime-Ridden Hell), but lived for several years in Minneapolis...gradumacated high school here, got arrested for the first time here, went to college for a couple of yrs at the U of MN (go Golden Rodents! I mean, Gophers), so even though I'll never live here again as I can't deal with 4 or 5 months of near-arctic weather conditions in the winter (any place you might have to plug your car in for the engine block heater to keep your oil from freezing into a sludge block is too cold for me), I do have kind of a warm spot for the place.
My mom and stepdad live waaaaaaay up in northern MN, like 70 miles from the Canadian border...now, I'm a city boy to the bone...but there's something about sitting on their deck looking out over the lake they live on as the sun goes down with a tasty adult beverage in hand, thatis just extremely peaceful and calming. Nice to get away from the hustle and bustle and traffic of the city once in a while. Not to mention I take their kayak out on the lake for hours, and cruise the backwoods on the 4-wheeler trying to hurt myself and find the biggest mudholes I can find! haha.
And some of my oldest friends live up here, peeps I've known for 15, 16 years....so its always nice to hook back up with them whenever I come to town. So it is chill and relax time, this way my batteries will be fully charged by the time we hit Wichita Falls on the 30th!!!! Break out the Chili Cheese Fritos, Falls here we come.....
We had this upcoming weekend off, so I cashed in some of the 2.7 million frequent flyer miles I had racked up due to work over the years and flew 'home' to Minnesota. Now, I'm originally from Texas (Houston aka Swampy Muggy Crime-Ridden Hell), but lived for several years in Minneapolis...gradumacated high school here, got arrested for the first time here, went to college for a couple of yrs at the U of MN (go Golden Rodents! I mean, Gophers), so even though I'll never live here again as I can't deal with 4 or 5 months of near-arctic weather conditions in the winter (any place you might have to plug your car in for the engine block heater to keep your oil from freezing into a sludge block is too cold for me), I do have kind of a warm spot for the place.
My mom and stepdad live waaaaaaay up in northern MN, like 70 miles from the Canadian border...now, I'm a city boy to the bone...but there's something about sitting on their deck looking out over the lake they live on as the sun goes down with a tasty adult beverage in hand, thatis just extremely peaceful and calming. Nice to get away from the hustle and bustle and traffic of the city once in a while. Not to mention I take their kayak out on the lake for hours, and cruise the backwoods on the 4-wheeler trying to hurt myself and find the biggest mudholes I can find! haha.
And some of my oldest friends live up here, peeps I've known for 15, 16 years....so its always nice to hook back up with them whenever I come to town. So it is chill and relax time, this way my batteries will be fully charged by the time we hit Wichita Falls on the 30th!!!! Break out the Chili Cheese Fritos, Falls here we come.....
posted by Keith at 11:58 AM
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