Or, Hark! a Real Entry!
I've been nose deep in writing/typing
comment_fic entries, or working, or watching episodes of Stargate SG-1 to really feel up to posting a real entry. Also, due to various things, I have been feeling rather down lately, but I shan't get into that just now.
I actually started celebrating on Tuesday, since I am a firm believer in Spreading out the Fun: went to the Burlington Mall for a poke-around, and got myself some Godiva Mint Chocolate Chip Truffles and a bag of dark chocolate-covered coffee beans. Wednesday and Thursday, I had to work, but yesterday, my actual birthday, out of the blue, I had the day off. Part of the day I spent running errands, but that evening, we three went to the park at Salem Willows for a picnic. There were some picnic tables, but then I spotted a huge tree with a wooden bench around the base and decided that was a better spot, since it gave us a view of the water on the north side of Salem Peninsula. We watched the sun set over the water and went for a walk along the water as the moon and the stars began to shine.
I'm planning to go back to Salem sometime this week to poke around and visit some of the historic houses that I haven't seen yet and to visit a few favorite places (ie. the Salem Witch History Museum located in the basement of a storefront on the Essex Pedestrian Mall: the animatronic dioramas are hysterically decrepit! Also the Salem Wax Museum: the wax has started to melt back from the eyes on some figures, leading to these hilariously bug-eyed/expressions, as if the sight of the visitor has startled them!). I hope to visit the Endicott Mansion, which is reported to be haunted, thus, I'm hoping I can share the tour (which is self-guided) with some other visitor. I'm not afraid of ghosts by any stretch (I'm more afraid of the living...), but I'd rather have someone along in case something odd does happen, so that I'll know it isn't my active imagination playing tricks on me.