Kerflooey

Annabelle sent me a text message today that sums up the last few weeks rather perfectly: "Not a bad day. Just sort of blah."

Well, I suppose blah is more the final analysis than an accurate description of the tenor of individual moments. There's been a lot of up and down. The downs mostly having to do with parts of my body deciding that they've had enough work for one lifetime thank you, and they are gonna crap out when I least expect it.

The ups mostly having to do with the selection of bike parts.

Yeah, I know, but it really does float my boat. Before you go scoffing and laughing, consider how your yarn shopping behavior would look to someone who doesn't give a hoot about yarn.

Okay then.

So here I am with a cat being as in-the-way as possible on my lap, fourteen tons of work to do in not so many days, a nightmare tax bill looming over my head, relatives continually begging couch space (like, every weekend this month), a half-busted tailbone and assorted knee issues, a new and glorious bicycle awaiting my love, and, oh, I don't know, a half-dozen other things preying on my limited attention.

I somehow have no time to grocery shop, do laundry, clean my bathroom (and no cleaning supplies even if I had that time), and anything else that tends to keep body and soul in working order. My hair is two weeks overdue for a haircut, I am out of face wash and paper towels, and you wouldn't believe how hard it is to find a 15 mm wrench that isn't "too long" or racheting in this city.

I ended up buying a whole damn set of metric wrenches at Home Depot, but I may return them if I can get a single one at an auto parts store someplace. And as you might expect, auto parts stores are not quite as thick on the ground here as they are in the burbs and boonies, where people actually own cars.

Now you begin to see why I have been light with the words lately. Because all my words are boring.

I attribute this to several things:

1. I am doing a project with Annabelle that involves writing every day.
2. I am really, really busy.
3. I am in an interesting emotional state - one that involves change and moving forward, and those tend not to be chatty times for me.
4. I am in love with two things: my bicycle and my Nikon. So they are getting all my juice. And neither of them are especially wordy creatures.
5. I don't have a 5, except to say that sometimes a girl needs a break from showing off her punctuation prowess to the wide world - or even the small and lovely network of readers she has mysteriously managed to amass (I still don't know how that happened, honestly, but it's an awfully cool thing).

So, 6. I appreciate your patience and just bear with me for a little while. I will at least show you some pretty pictures now and then. Or maybe often. I have been very fruitful in the camera department lately.

Love,
Lizbon

PS. Blanket statement: All of my photos are clickable for bigger (and sometimes worth it), and also copyright of me, so please don't steal 'em. Thanks.