Oh, I think May is my favorite month. The light! The blooms! The demise of drear! I woke up on Saturday morning after 9 hours of sleep to a glorious spring day, full of determination to Get Things Done. The determination to Get Things Done doesn't always turn into the reality of Having Done Things, but on Saturday it did.
I’ve been in a bit of a slump, you guys. I’ve been feeling burned out and uncertain at work. I still have not adjusted to life with only two children at home — mostly because I miss the ones who are far away, but even in practical terms I've been flailing for longer than I would have expected. There is no one who is responsible for emptying the dish drainer every morning, even though I’ve had nine months to figure out the dish drainer situation. But things are looking up.
Joe came home this weekend, which was delightful. We fit in a bunch of rock-climbing along with Pete. Our rock-climbing gym opened its outdoor boulder last weekend, and Joe was excited to try out the new routes. I remain a lot more cautious about trying new things at the gym. I was not optimistic about the outdoor boulder, because Pete had warned me that it was a lot harder than the indoor routes. But do you know, I was able to top out on two routes (that’s what the climbers call it when you haul yourself all the way onto the upper surface and take the steps back down), and reach the last hold of a third route. We will gloss over the fourth route, where I slipped off a not-great hold at the top of the boulder and fell all the way to the ground. (Ouch. But I’ll get it next time.)
Pete and I got in some gardening time, to our mutual satisfaction, and Stella and I took a trip to one of our favorite spots, a nearby nature preserve. Red-wing blackbirds and yellow-bellied something-or-others, peeping frogs and trees for climbing. It’s one of my favorite places to spend a weekend afternoon.
In an ideal world perhaps I would be less affected by gray skies and wet weather. I guess the upside of Seasonal Affective Disorder is that my November malaise yields reliably to May enthusiasm. If I can't be more even-keeled, at least I can take advantage of the upswing.
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