Glamping, the Monster Cold From Hell, and Camp NaNo Is Almost Over!

Happy Thursday, Aledan Merfolk! It’s been nearly a month since I last posted, and boy has it ever been a month. I started out strong with Camp NaNo, doing writing sprints with my cabin and staying on top of transcribing my handwritten pages into the computer. I knew I’d be taking a week off from writing to go glamping, so I wanted to get ahead as much as possible in those early days.

And then…Hubs brought the Monster Cold From Hell home from Alabama. On his birthday. We had plans to visit his grandparents the day after his birthday to kick off our week-long vacation, but when he woke up sick we postponed the trip, then canceled the first half of our vacation (we didn’t want to get the grandfolks sick!). By Weds he was feeling much better, so we decided to keep our reservations in Asheville. We stayed at a nice hotel on Weds night, complete with complimentary bath salts to help cook the last of the sick out of his body.

On Thursday, we saw my BFF and CP: Juliana!!! It’s been over a year since I’ve seen her, so I was terribly excited. We hung out at a local Asheville brewery and talked over a couple beers. Then we made plans to meet up downtown the next day, and Hubs and I headed just north of Asheville to go “glamping“.

What’s “glamping”? It’s glamour camping! We stayed in a yurt that had an actual bed (with memory foam mattress) and a mini-fridge. There was a private, open-air shower with hot water, a spigot, and the cleanest port-a-potty I’ve ever been in. And a firepit, of course. (There was also a propane grill, but we cooked dinner in a skillet over the fire)

Totally awesome experience…until I woke up Friday morning with Hubs’ Monster Cold. Still, I wasn’t going to let that ruin my vacation, so I slept in a bit and then we met Juliana for early lunch before heading to the bookstores (because you can’t go to Asheville and not spend the day at Malaprops and Battery Park Book Exchange!).

On Saturday we were supposed to wake up early and head to Juliana’s to go white water rafting, but I woke up feeling so horribly sick that there was no way I could get out of bed, much less keep myself in a raft. So I canceled the rafting plans with Juliana and we decided we’d meet the next day for lunch. Hubs and I headed to Black Mountain instead, since we plan to eventually buy a bit of land out there and raise chickens (and mini-goats, although Hubs still says no to that. I have time to wear him down 😉 ). It was a sweet little town with lots of shops and eateries, and a used bookstore. So you know what we did!

By Sunday I felt so sick I just wanted to get home, so unfortunately we didn’t see Juliana again 🙁 I get to see her in two months for a writing retreat, but I was still super bummed the Monster Cold kept us from enjoying two days together! Stupid cold *kicks it* (Also: no proper bathroom when you have a cold is NOT FUN)

All last week I was fighting off that cold, and I didn’t get any writing done. So two weeks without writing for Camp has put me pretty far behind. I did hit the midpoint of Enfields this week, and I realized it’s actually a YA (goodbye sex scenes!), but now I have so many ideas for where to take it from here that I don’t know which to choose. It’s the opposite of writer’s block, but it still has me unable to move forward for the moment.

Which is fine, because I have a new project to CP 🙂 I’m going to spend the next couple weeks working on that while I let Enfields simmer, and then it’s time to get back on the draft horse and finish that hot mess of a book. Then I’m heading back home to Fie Eoin <3

Have a lovely weekend Aledans, and stay away from the Monster Cold!