Ah, May is Marvelous..
May 1, 2008 by vanessa
and frankly, there is a lot to be smiling about. However, there is one thing that continually bothers me: allergy season. It feels like I have ants crawling around in my throat, the pressure in my ear holes makes me wonder if I am on an airplane, and chronic phlegm isn’t helping the sitch. My head feels like a bowling ball and my swollen glands, that’s another story. Seriously, it’s consuming my life. I have been sneezing for weeks now. I clean houses, and all this dust is getting the best of me. For two weeks I have felt that I am on the verge of getting really sick. It just hovers over me, teasing me, and it’s not going away. Wah. Give me the strength!
Anyway, I had to get that off my chest. Allergies do not rule the scene anymore. I have never been diagnosed with allergies, nor have I ever tried to treat them. I think I am allergic to allergy pills. I think I need to get tested. Certain foods make my throat itch, BAD! All this is making me feel tired. I don’t have the energy to work out. Gads.
On my time off from work, I am usually home, wondering what in the world I am doing with my life. I live in Vermont, my husband is going to school and I am bringing home the bacon. Then what? I make dinner. Then what? I blog or something. Then we go to sleep. I wake up the next morning, work out, eat my oats and drink the green goo, and off to work I go. Seriously, there has to be more to life than this silly routine. I think I am going through a mid-midlife crisis…anyway:
Here are some things that spice up my life or make me smile:
Rick singing the Beatles in the shower
Birds singing in the morning
The run rising around 6
My little row of herbs that are “hatching”…growing…sprouting…blossoming…whateveryoucallit.
My drive to jericho three days a week
Sunday afternoons in the park
Rick’s endearing text messages
Cooking with veggies all the time
All the green grass everywhere
Listening to Alphaville, Tori Amos, the Origin, Echobelly, Belle & Sabastian, Mojave 3 and James, lately..and remembering what it was like 15 years ago.
learning how to use my camera and feeling inspired (gosh, I just want to be a photographer…a wicked good one)
Rick’s hugs and kisses that have no end…and I like that
Phone calls from family (HINT HINT, wink wink)
Reorganizing everything in our apartment, every other week
Cycling down Spear street and up Dorset street when it’s in the 70’s
Watching my foreign films
Phone calls and texts from Em
and the list goes on
So maybe this is what my life is all about…
’tis the everlasting challenge to make our lives interesting.
It’s a series of small, sometimes uninteresting, acts that create a life. Enduring the boring times and rejoicing in the good times. Loving where we are in the present moment is a true gift.
Your attitude is the best …. finding joy in everything. The time will come when you will pray for “boring” days …. a reprieve from the craziness of feeding, chasing and running children.
You’re in a beautiful time of life …. aren’t we all?
I am pretty sure my texts should make that list. When is the last time you had a friend get a text from a guy that says they are praying for her? That is right. Never….mostly because it is creepy.
I say we start some sort of mix cd swap. Nothing says “you are going to have the best day ever” like snail mail.
make the mundane magical!
don’t wait for a special occasion to use the china, wear those fancy shoes or treat yourself to an activity you love…
something tells me you already know all this, though.