Oh my God, the luxury of sleeping until 5:30 would be heavenly! Typically at least one of our kids gets up somewhere in the 4 o’clock hour. If we’re lucky. Sometimes it’s in the 3 o’clock range. 
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These days, if that happens to me I go for a toilet break, and come back to bed to reeeeally, really enjoy that extra bit of sleep.
(I spent nearly 20 years getting up at that time to go to work)
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My husband had to get up at 4 to go to work early for a 4-hour presentation/class he has to run. While getting ready he knocked a glass liquid soap container off the sink and it broke. I got up and spent like an hour cleaning soap and glass off the floor so he wouldn’t have to worry about it and be late for his presentation. Then I went back to bed.
Today and tomorrow I’m driving from Virginia to Texas, a trip of a little over 1300 miles and a little under 24-hours of wheels on the road time. I was hoping to be on the road already today, but I needed more sleep after that first lovely wake up.
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This is my semi-annual reminder that America as huge! That’s John O’Groats to Land’s End (the longest mainland UK route) plus 100 miles
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In one weekend, before I was married or had kids, my friends and I went to see 4 concerts on one band’s tour. We drove from Kansas City to Denver, then back to Kansas City, then to Dallas, TX, then back to Kansas City (to sleep before getting back on the road) to Chicago, and then back to Kansas City.
It was at around 3000 miles.
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You must have been a really big fan of Showaddywaddy
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Somewhere in one the Dakotas, there’s a sign giving distances to Seattle and NYC. NYC is closer.
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I should add that I saw this sign on a road trip from nj to Seattle, after 3 days of driving. The whole trip took 3 weeks, and we put over 10,000 miles on what had been a brand new (19 miles on the clock) car. The rental car company lost on that rental.
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I would have thought that having the big lakes in the way it would be longer… But there again, I guess any of the Dakotas is the size of NZ or thereabouts
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We made it! Fortunately I was heading to the eastern edge of Texas so didn’t have to cross it. That would have added another day.
Stopped at all the highway welcome centers.
The two without a name are South Carolina and Texas.
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All of these states have identical dogs
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Standard reference dog for scale?
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Okay, I’m sorry, but “We Dare Defend Our Rights”?!
What kind of Orwellian doublespeak is that nonsense? Especially from Southern State?!
I mean, Ontario’s slogan of “Open For Business” is idiotic, sure, but that’s only because our current Premier is in fact a total idiot. It tracks. But as soon as he is out of office I suspect we’ll go back to something sensible.
Gods. People are weird, man.
Don’t mind me. Day 37 of Open On Sundays at a game store. I am becoming slightly unhinged.
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Looking at the sign:
“Texas: You’d Miss Us If We Weren’t Here.”
Rest of USA: “Can we try anyway?”
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'* For certain values of “we.”
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*and some Wrongs, too
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I absolutely hated that defend our rights nonsense. The only rights they’ve ever tried to defend were the rights to be racist and to own other human beings. And they lost (yay!). Such garbage.
Also, I would not come to Texas (or most of the other states I drove through) were it not for the reality that my parents and sister live here.
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Just finished wrapping Kate’s Christmas presents.
I love buying and giving gifts, but I am rubbish at wrapping.
And every year I forget to only buy rectangular gifts
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Gift bags and saved boxes to put things in is the key!
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Just keep a few boxes from games you ordered 
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