I just talked to a friend back home in Minneapolis for 4 hours. It was great! I don’t remember the last time I talked to anyone on the phone for that long. I’m so grateful I have people in my life willing to talk to me for 4 hours on the phone. That’s nuts!

I hung out with this guy today I met on an app on my phone. Actually, we hung out last night and then got together again today. I don’t see this headed into romantic territory, but I do enjoy hanging out with him and I don’t really have many friends out here in NJ so I could definitely use a few of those. He brought me to this nature reserve not far from the house. It was heavily wooded and there was a lake. We walked through all of these paths for hours before he brought me to the coolest part… Wait for it… There was a deserted village! Except for the fact that a couple people live in homes there, it was a totally deserted village! There was one house that was totally creepy. You could look in the front door (which was padlocked) and see this old toy truck on the floor and a whole bunch of boards. The place was basically falling apart. It was built into the side of a hill and when we walked down to the other side there was a door to the basement that someone had pried off. As soon as I went inside the wind picked up and these trees outside made the strangest noise as they rubbed together. It was sooooo creepy. I wandered around the basement room for a little while until I got too weirded out and then went outside. I really wanted to walk up the stairs to the main floor and then up the next flight of stairs to the upper level, but I was too scared to do it. I’d like to go back sometime and try again. Unfortunately this place was falling apart and mostly boarded up to keep people from exploring these structures to avoid getting hurt (or angering the ghosts I’m pretty certain were all around). I guess I’ll just have to put that on my list of things to do some day. It was so creepy!

Gratitude List:
A long phone conversation with a good friend
Seeing the world as it truly is
Healing my heart