National Elisa Thinks She Needs a Vacation from Her Long Weekend Day

Let me first apologize for disappearing. If I owe you an email, it's on its way, I swear.

Let me next just say that the end of last week and this weekend were all of the following:

scary

stressful

upsetting

nerve-wracking

overwhelming

and then

fun

nerve-wracking

overwhelming

healing.

At the end of last week, it seemed that I would not be able to go to SPA and I was upset, although it was a no-brainer that I would need to be home instead of in Maine. At the last minute, though, I was able to take the car and drive up to SPA late on Friday night, and I really, really, really planned on being social and relaxing and spinning my little heart out.

But things didn't work out that way for me, not exactly.

I was social, but on a super small scale for the size of the event - I felt really overwhelmed, I felt a little bruised, I felt twisted out of shape, and well, when I feel like that, I hibernate.

So, I guess I hibernated as much as one can when surrounded by people. Lucky for me, I was surrounded by truly amazing people - people I consider dear friends - people who totally understood where I was on the emotional Richter scale, and rode out my ups and downs with me, never giving me a hard time, always giving me exactly what I needed, whether that was thrusting a spindle into my hands (cough*kellee*cough), or concurring that those 2200 yards of laceweight wool for $20 in fact DID need to live at my house (cough*juno*cough), or totally getting the whole "If I do not eat in the next five minutes I will implode" thing (cough*jackie*cough).

Staying at the other hotel for the SPA event meant that it was kind of a process to shlep my wheel and accessories back and forth to the DoubleTree, where most of the gathering was happening. As a result, I felt a little disjointed, and in that mood, I found it difficult to deal with the crowds in order to stake out a space to spin, which I felt a pretty desperate need to do (it was either that or drink my face off, and the fact that I had to drive back and forth between hotels meant no drinking my face off, of course).

I'm going to do a stash-enhacing recap of SPA soon, because let me just say that I maybe went a little insane, and where Jess says Amy Boogie exploded all over her, Jackie said it looked like an entire shelf of Amy Boogie roving had fallen on me (and I bought all of the things she saw me with. And more. A LOT more). So, y'know, there was definitely stash enhancing...

All in all, this was ultimately a healing weekend for me:  I was surrounded by good friends who became even better friends, and I spent time with people who were acquaintances before but have become friends. It is amazing what this community has come to mean to me, and I am so thankful.

Comments

[Laurie]

I'm glad you are healing the wounds. Life never seems to make it easy, eh?

[claudia]

I hope this week is starting out better.

[Sara]

I was really glad to meet you (in Amy Boogie's booth!) on Saturday... and wished I could have hung out with all of you longer (5 minutes just doesn't cut it). I don't know what happened, but I hope that you're feeling better and are taking care of yourself! *hug*

[Sara]

I was really glad to meet you (in Amy Boogie's booth!) on Saturday... and wished I could have hung out with all of you longer (5 minutes just doesn't cut it). I don't know what happened, but I hope that you're feeling better and are taking care of yourself! *hug*

[maryse]

hey what happened?

[Carole]

I wish I had seen you more. But I understand.

[Chris]

I was wondering what had happened - glad that SPA turned out to be good overall. I think.