I Want to Live Liiiiiiike Animals!

It has come to my attention that I have not been blogging enough lately. Hmm. I've just ...been ...so ...busy...

Who am I kidding?

Even though my summer "off" was not of my doing and happened despite all of best efforts to find a new job (60+ applications, people!) I'm beginning to see what a blessing in disguise it has been. I needed to get back in touch with myself. I needed to reevaluate my values and my goals. I only have one question left:

Why does spending a summer of seclusion and self-discovery turn an otherwise career-minded person into a flower-child???

It happened to Karen at Tanuga, and now it's happening to me...

I suddenly realized (somewhere between sun-drying the sweet pea seeds I collected and am selling at an upcoming flea market and climbing a tree to pick cherries) that in the last two months, I have completely forsaken "worldly" things and am wearing an uncommonly high number of peasant skirts. And I'm listening to a lot of Loreena McKennitt and Bob Dylan. Fine, I admit I've been listening to John Denver too. And I've been skipping through open fields in my bare feet, picking blackberries as I go. And I haven't worn a bit of make-up in a good month. And I'm happiest I've been in years.

For those of you who are worried about Desmond, don't. I still spend just as much time with him now as ever. Maybe more. I just spend what would normally be work time running around like a crazy lady.

I want to run through the jungle, the wind at my hair and the sand at my feet!!

Speaking of animals, I have to mention that Steve Irwin's death really effected me more than I would have thought. Did you ever have one of those obnoxiously huge boxes of Crayola crayons with all the crazy names and colors? I feel like I just lost the one called "mac n cheese". Why couldn't I have lost "green-yellow" or "yellow-green"? They weren't fun anyway. The creamy orange "mac n cheese" crayon made the best pictures. Steve was one of those "crazy crayons". He's gone, and my picture still needed more orange. (All of you crayon aficionados get my metaphor!)