Yeah, yeah, haven't written. Not that busy. Just kind of...lazy.
The excitingly glamourous possible job detail thing I was all excited about didn't work out. These fickle cabinet members - they get appointed by the President and all and think they can just change their minds and do what they want. Anyhow. That's what happened. So, my friend had to tell me "no" after he kind of got a little smackdown from The Secretary (no, I ain't tellin' which one).
Oh well. It gave me a thinly veiled excuse to buy new shoes. Mmm, shooooes. Zappo's = so enabling.
So, I've been trying to be actually productive and all at my job, instead of refusing to work on things because I could just pawn them off on someone else when I jaunted off on my exciting detail. And well, I got all kinds of things done. And discovered that I'm not really all that busy. So, I'm embracing it and being thankful that I can always leave on time or even early to get home to play with the Olive, or go by the UPS Store to pick up my deliveries of new shoes, or take a fantastic lunchtime run on a (finally!) gorgeous 62+ degree sunny spring day like today.
Or continue in my rut of obsessively checking e-mail, Facebook, Twitter. I want to blog more, run more, take photos more, cook more. I really do. But see, e.g., rut, lazy, busy, whatever. There's work, where I sit on my butt and fill time, and rationalize that if I'm sitting at my desk, a little surfing is justified. Then there's home, where the action is nonstop, and any visible electronic device makes a certain, small monkey-child screech and clamor to have it, pound its keys, carry it around, bang it (lovingly, I am sure) against table and wood floor). Work. Home. Money. Time. Life. Balance. Argh.
But! Oh! This early implementation of Daylight Savings? LOVE. IT. I am a sun girl. All about sunlight. Raised in New Mexico with 300 days of sun a year, so I wilt and wither get a little pale and sad and depressed during the winter, when it's pitch dark as I leave my windowless office at 5:00 during December and January.
This whole MOAR SUN deal perks me right up. I played with the Olive in our backyard for awhile yesterday evening, eff it if we eat dinner late. IT'S LIGHT OUT. And the Olive can play in the back now - she can run around on the brick patio and climb the wooden stairs to the deck and try to eat rocks and yank on the plants. It's marvelous. And I need to remember to get out my camera and keep trying out the new lens that I got for my birthday, so we can get more of this:
This is my favorite recent photo. I just love the way it turned out. Her big blue eyes, the pop of the color of the orange, the off-center placement of the Olive in the photo...If I were going to spend more time on it, I'd Photoshop out the electrical outlet, so it's not so distracting. But when the heck am I going to do that? There's sun out there to play in and babies to chase and shoes to buy on the internet...so busy, so lazy.
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