If someone had told me a year ago I would be living in a bus maybe getting furloughed and in Upper Michigan for my 40th birthday I would have laughed and called them crazy, but that's exactly what has happened. While my 40th birthday is not *exactly* what I thought it would be I have no real complaints. I have a place to live, family and friends that love me and wished me a happy birthday, and a job that even if I get furloughed from will (probably) be there for me to come back to. Life doesn't always go the way you planned and you can either go with the flow and be happy and content, or buck the system and be unhappy.
Now those of you who know me may think I'm drunk already as I am normally not an *optimistic* person. I promise I haven't been body snatched ( be honest NO aliens are coming here they fly by with windows up and doors locked). Don't worry I'm still the pessimistic person you know and love, but there's a difference in being pessimistic on a small scale (wrong orders at restaurants/things breaking etc) but in the grand scheme of things I know I am lucky and a lot of people would trade places with me, and that's important to keep in perspective especially in this day and age.
Now those of you who know me might be shocked by the fact that I'm happy roaming the Upper Peninsula of Michigan in a bus camping. I am not what you would call a "camping" person. When I was a kid I went camping with my best friend and god bless her and her parents I think after the first night my parents drove out to get me. I don't like sleeping outside, or bugs, or cooking outside, seeing a pattern yet? But camping (glamping) in Maddie has been life changing in more ways then one. I NEVER would have thought I could have lived in something this small for so long, with so little stuff, and been happy. But I am. Maddie has taught me that camping isn't that bad and that I really need very little in life to be happy. True, in some aspects Maddie is hardly "roughing it" but again if you had told me I would be living in a bus on my 40th birthday I would not have believed it.
I can't begin to guess where I will be for my 41st Birthday, but I dare say wherever I am I will be happy to be there!
One of my favorite songs came one while I was writing this so I'm leaving it here 💕
------A road to nowhere and eternity
John Denver "To the Wild Country"
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