I always feel a little off center after a long day of rant posts so I feel an obligatory Puppies, Unicorns and Rainbows post is in order to offset all that negativity. No worries friends, I’m still a cynical hag and an emotional roller coaster, just trying to balance some of that out a bit.
Puppies
Ladies and Gents, knock on wood, I think the air conditioner is fixed! Every day they visit my house and tinker on it. I get a thumbs up as the guys are walking out the door and then by 5pm it’s a sweat box in the house and I’m on the phone with them again. I slept in my own bed last night and dare I say, I was a little chilly!
Unicorns
It rained last night, the kind with lightening and thunder and warm wind that smells like newly wet dust. Standing on the back porch afterward with the smell of new rain and the wind blowing in a hundred different directions across my face, I couldn’t help but envision the day’s stresses blowing away and cleaning my heart of the worries it’s been carrying. So many happy memories flood me all at once at a time like that; countless summers playing in the rain as a child, my first kiss on my grandmother’s front porch right after the first tornado I’d ever seen, and hours upon hours of standing in the rain watching those Oklahoma storms roll in over the pastures. There’s something about a summer storm that just says “hey man, wash away all that junk and let’s start fresh again.”
Rainbows
I haven’t actually started any chapters for the story I’m working on but I’ve been living in the world I created and enjoying it immensely. Many of my characters still have no names but they’re already real to me and I’m falling in love with them. I’ve changed the story line so many times that Chad has stopped asking me what it’s about. The people are coming to life for me though and so I’ve had to make changes to my original idea but the premise is still the same. I’m hoping to have some time this week to actually sit down and get more than 10 minutes of clear thought without the kids screaming at me for something so I can start work on the first chapter but I don’t see that happening just yet. Oh yeah, “rainbows”, well, I’m actively working on something instead of just talking about “one day” so that’s gotta be good news right?
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