sarahcentric

I’m currently upstate biding my time rent-free before I take off for New Zealand. That means picking up skim milk at Shop-rite for your sister, running into old teachers you haven’t seen since 4th grade, and exchanging things…always with the exchanging things. Why is it that when you go home you have to run to the mall to exchange something every single day?!

A gigantic plus to Upstate is the Appalachian Trail which is just down the road from Shop-rite. No one ever gives real directions here. It’s all, “just past the old ice cream stand near the sneaker store.” Or “if you take the backway, just make a left at that place where they used to do the ski swaps.” That direction would have been way more helpful to me if I had ever been in the Ski Club.

So when my brother Aaron said we should go for a hike after his appointment around 2, I had no problem changing out of my pajamas and into jeans that I know are way too old and gigantic. (Working from home is the Bees’ Knees!) In my mind, ticks would never clown around weak-ass jeans like those. Never mind that I almost died of heat stroke. If you were lucky enough to be hanging out in your pj’s mid-afternoon in my neck of the woods, here’s what you would have overheard:

“I don’t think I’m going to take my camera. It’s gonna rain.”
“No, you have to. It is definitely not going to rain.”
“Dude, look at the clouds!”
“Sarah, it says there’s a 40% chance.”
“I got news for ya’ Aaron, that’s a pretty good chance.”
“Ughh why am I always surprised by how hard hiking is?”
“Bekah thinks you hate it…”
“I don’t hate it! I’m just… surprised!”
“We’re almost there. We have to take pictures quick. See those clouds, that’s all rain. See, I told you it was DEFINITELY going to rain.
“I am going to freaking kill you.”
“Seriously we gotta start going back.”
“Oh my god, is that hail?! Seriously Hail! I haven’t seen hail in 10 years.
“Keep going, Sarah!”
“I don’t wanna break my neck, Aaron. Oh my god, I’m totally creeped out. What if we saw the Faun from Pan’s Labyrinth out here!”
“Ughh don’t.”
“I swear I would never leave the woods. I wouldn’t be able to recover. I would just stay with him on the Appalachian trail and do his bidding.”
“The clearing is right up here. Aaaaaand it stopped raining.”
“Goddamit!”
“Now what?”
“Don’t we have to stop at Shop-rite?”
“For what?”
“I don’t know. Don’t we always have to stop at Shop-rite?”