I'm ready for Autumn now...

What I did over summer vacation

1. Help foil a kidnapping plot. ( No, really... )

2. Had close personal contact with a bat (again!).

3. Got two rabies booster shots.

4. Had an allergic reaction to the rabies booster shots.

5. Found out I'm being downsized at the end of September.

And...

6. Been on the lookout for a cougar that's been using our yard as a thoroughfare--I found a paw print the size of my freakin' fist, people!

Whew.

Okay, as you can probably tell, I haven't been the happiest of campers for the past couple of months, and rather than constantly complain and infect everyone with my bad moods I've been all anti-social.

But, lately, I don't know, I've seemed to reach a kind of level of zen about everything. I'm feeling all mellow-ish. Weird, right.

It could be that I'm growing as a person, or it might be my recent discovery of pear martinis (omgsooogood), irregardless, I'm gonna try and be less doomy&gloomy and be around more. I've missed you nutjobs. *sniff*

I know where I want to go for vacation in 2010...

Spooky Waverly Hills may return as hotel - The rooms may be standard, and the location is a bit out-of-the-way, but Charlie Mattingly thinks his planned hotel in southwest Jefferson County will have a unique draw: It's a creepy, old, five-story building with a morgue, a "body chute" and guest rooms where people once lay dying of tuberculosis.

Mattingly and his architect, Kevin Milburn of Urban Designz, are dead serious about turning the old Waverly Hills Sanatorium into a 78-room boutique hotel with a spa, fitness center and meeting space for business groups.

The former hospital off Dixie Highway already is a mecca for ghost hunters, who come by the thousands each year to search for paranormal activity. A film crew from the Travel Channel was there last month, and talk-show host Maury Povich sent a crew this week.

Its haunted history was the focus of a six-hour special on the Sci Fi Channel last fall, and the property regularly turns up on lists of the nation's most haunted places. Web sites dedicated to the property feature photos of people who mysteriously appear in windows, and audio files of unexplained noises.

Awesome.