A trip down memory lane

I have been wanting to go back to old places recently. Feeling pulled to certain places which haunt my dreams. I've been having a lot of dreams recently of my old childhood home. I'm not sure why. I also had a dream about my Dad recently. It was very vivid and shook me up a bit. I miss him a lot. It's coming up to the two year anniversary since he died. A tough time of year for me. I tend to get very depressed and moody. We spent most of the day going to garage sales yesterday. Found a few good deals. I love a good bargain. We were able to get a date night to go out but were undecided about where to go. The Canucks were playing and George St. Pierre was fighting in the UFC. A big night for sports. I wasn't really into it all though and confessed to Master. I just wanted to go for a drive and to clear my head. I made a suggestion to him about going to visit my old childhood home, high school and stomping grounds. I spent about 20 years in that city. Sooooo many memories for me. And it's hard to go back there again. I moved away and don't visit very often but have been thinking about it a lot lately. We headed out to the city. (I don't want to name which one because of privacy reasons) And made a few stops along the way including pizza and a 7-11 trip. This 7-11 is unlike any other one for me. I used to go to it all the time!! I would skip out of high school to go down to it and get slurpees. We headed to the park nearby to enjoy a picnic. The weather was perfect and it felt kind of magical to be driving down the same street that I must have walked down a thousand times with my walkman going. Very fond memories of that neighborhood. Some places are different. But some people are the same. It was like I was right back in the 80's again. Felt so strange to be back there so many years later. My life has completely changed since then. I'm not even the same person anymore. We drove in and looked around. I can remember walking around that park with contractions when I was pregnant with my daughter. She's almost 16 so that was many years ago now. Wow! What happened to all the years? I suddenly felt very old when visiting the place of my youth. We ate our pizza in the park. Then we walked around a bit more before heading back to the car. We drove by the old place. I got to see the window where my bedroom used to be as a kid. It's still so strange for me. I can still see my mom standing there at the livingroom window looking out. Or my Dad pulling up in his car. So many flashbacks for me. It's always so strange going back to look at old places from your past. We drove to my High school. Wow! A few changes has happened but it's pretty much the same high school that I remember. It was weird walking around the whole school. I haven't done it in 21 years. Hard to believe it's been that long since I graduated!! This was on my bucket list and something that I've really wanted to do. To walk around my old high school grounds. I get to cross this off my bucket list: #406 -Walk around my old high school grounds We watched the sunset as I walked around my old high school. Was neat to look in the windows and see my old cafeteria as well as the lockers where I met my first husband. Really neat. :D We headed back and stopped again at another place that had some memories for us. Then we came home so I could try out my new vibrator. UPS had dropped off a package just before we left on our date. I have a new vibrator to review from Eden Fantasys! :D I will be reviewing it very soon for you! :D It's been a really nice weekend so far. Hopefully I'll get to get out and enjoy the sunshine again today. It's May already and almost time to start thinking about summer. May the force be with you all!! ~padme amidala