Sometimes, you need a change in perspective. A little change of scenery. Shake things up a bit. I try to do that. Sometimes in big ways, but often in little ways. For example, I recently changed the living room around just because I got tired of it the other way. I didn’t redecorate or anything—just moved the couch here, the chair there and the TV over by the bookshelf. It’s like a new room all over again and I’m not so tired of sitting in it as I used to be.
My grandmother once told me that only dissatisfied people feel the need to change their furniture around regularly like that. And I said in response, “Oh yes, exactly!” She meant it in a not so nice way, but I took it another way. I AM dissatisfied with life. Not in an unhappy, depressed, miserable sort of way, but in an “I plan on wrestling everything I can out of life” way. I am dissatisfied in that I want to try more, do more, be more, share more, help more, discover more, search more, experience more, tell more, create more. I don’t think I will EVER be satisfied and I don’t think that’s a bad thing.
I am honestly so happy that spring is here and I can now come out of my winter hibernation (although, I was not so much in hibernation as in winters of the past). I am often very inactive in the winter, I know it’s not good for me but my mind is usually not able to to overcome my body’s urge to sloth about on the couch under a blanket with a kitteh on my lap. Spring is the only thing that breaks the spell for me. Sunshine, warmer weather, green and gold on the landscape. Ah, my prescription for a healthier mind, body and soul.
And every spring, I remember the bittersweetness of the very first poem I ever memorized.
“Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.”
-Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost
On Saturday night, I’m having a party at my house. There’s going to be about 20-30 people there and it’s going to be a little raucous. It’s not going to be like the parties in those John Hughes‘ films—no one is going to get on the roof or run around with their underwear on the their head, but we are going to cut loose a little bit. It’s spring, it’s called for!
On the menu…
Parmesan & Truffle Oil Popcorn (from Tasty Kitchen)
Sweet and Salty Toasted Chickpeas
Dark-n-Stormy Cocktail
- Dark rum
- Ginger beer
- serve with a slice of lime
The mister and I took advantage of the unseasonably warm weather and visited Lewes and Rehobeth, DE. We were going to go to Pittsburgh, but decided to go to the beach instead….a much shorter drive for us.
We had a wonderfully lovely time and mostly spent it walking around Lewes, Rehobeth Beach and along the ocean and forest trails at Cape Henlopen State Park.
So, I might be going to Pittsburgh this weekend and I need to know:
1. where to stay?
2. where to eat and drink?
3. what to do?
I’ve been to Pittsburgh a couple of times, and I love it, but the last time was about 5 years ago so I definitely need some recommendations of the latest and greatest.
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My new glasses came in and just in time for allergy season…there’s no getting contacts in these eyes today. What do you think of my new specs?
