Contrary

to popular belief, I’m not dead. Nor have I given up on my blog.

Being unemployed for a few months gave me a lot of time to play around on the internet. I found lots of cool websites and blogs written by designers, scientists, artists, humorists, thinkers, …and housewives. I don’t want my blog to be famous and entertain thousands of people; I just want to keep in touch with friends and family. Still, I couldn’t help wondering which category I was falling into (in life, not just my blog) and feeling kind of crappy about it. Not that housewives are crappy. Not at all! I’m just not that person.

Anyway, after a certain point I felt that I couldn’t just start up again without having something awesome to say which just made me feel worse about the tremendous amount of time I was spending being un-awesome.

But here’s something: I started my first day of work today! Yay!!! It was hectic and overwhelming and crazy and I loved it. Some things on my new work-to-do list: alphabetize chemicals in storeroom, find out how to legally get rid of old microscopes, and get all bossy when other people aren’t clean enough. All the things I love in the world, basically.

Now I will post pretty things so that this isn’t just a whiny, all-words blog post! I promise to blog much more often. And take more pretty pictures for you. And try to generally not be a hermit.

Birds, band nerds, and Plumeria blossoms:

P.S. I’m working my way through all of the NPR Tiny Desk Concerts. There are so many amazing musicians in the world. I can’t even whistle!

P.P.S. Wyatt and I have had several great weekend adventures since I last blogged. It’s probably part laziness that has kept me from blogging, not just lack of material.

P.P.P.S. Lauren White, that crazy-wonderful gypsy friend of ours, came to visit us last week. It was so much fun! I even drove the Red Beast around Miami so we could see gators and people-watch on Miami Beach. If she ever gets around to blogging *nudge nudge*, I’ll put the link on here.