Daily writing prompt

What are you most excited about for the future?

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I’m not really an excitable person, I can probably count the number of times I’ve felt excited as an adult on one hand. I’m very laid back and not a yippee, clap my hands in excitment and jump up and down kind of person. Going on a vacation does excite me but you’re still not really going to see me outwardly show it that much.

I don’t know what this says about me really. Well I guess it says that I’m my mother’s daughter.

I’m wracking my brain imagining scenarios that cause excited feelings in me and not much is coming up. Of course the thought of travelling stirs up enthusiastic emotions in me. Although no real big trips planned until spring break next year.

In two weeks the kids and I are driving to Swan River to see family (my parents and both sisters and their families are there), and to help celebrate my mom’s seventy-fifth birthday. Just a short trip though, two nights and I will be happy to come back. You know what visiting family is like.

At the end of summer or maybe even September long weekend we’ll go to Winnipeg. It’s the capital city of Manitoba. Great shopping and even better eating! Whoa. I actually got a bit excited there for a second.

It’s a long ass drive, seven and a half hours on an almost straight stretch of road. The first five hours is basically nothing but bush. Boreal forest on either side of the road. No towns, except for one, to stop and gas up and grab snacks. When I say I live in the middle of nowhere, I legit mean in the middle of nowhere.

Even though it’s considered just a weekend getaway to the city, with the cost of gas, hotel room or airbnb, food and shopping, it equals the price of a small vacation. My oldest daughter Bella-Lena is moving there for university and I want to go and help her get situated.