New Order of Things

I've decided I want to pack my weekdays and loosen up my weekends. I want to do my grocery shopping, cooking, cleaning, baking during the weekdays so that on the weekends, I can afford to be lazy. I can do the things I've been meaning to do. I can go see that movie, sleep in, see friends, go see a movie.

Research, read an extra book, have fun, or do nothing at all. But I want time to myself where I can enjoy my new home, my husband and myself. I'd like to begin appreciating the things I do have and possess in my palm. The things we all tend to overlook and in the frustration of the post-modern world, take for granted, because after all, we don't remember a time where we were unable to possess the luxuries that we do have.

I will at least work out once a week, though ideal case would be three times per week, about thirty minutes each. I also would like to start doing Yoga. With my increasing back pains, it's going to come in handy.

Eventually, I'd like to read a novel a week, a short story a week and each day work through vocabulary, grammar, writing fiction related book, free writing, daily writing, observations, and blogging. I'd like to dedicate a good amount of money and increase the quality of my topics and context of my blogs. I'd also like to take a class here and there in the Fall, in whatever form I can afford. I'd like to join a critique group, and begin thoroughly interacting with the writer community in Madison.

I'd like to start Belly Dancing Instructing and getting my business off the ground.
Here's to a year with many hopes, wishes and goals!

Weather

It's been a strange summer, my strangest summer in Madison thus far. I've never seen the weather so cold, so rainy and dark here in Madison. It almost feels like a Fall. I am fond of Fall, but I'd like to have a little bit of Summer before we move onto the bitter, colder and more rustic weather I am enamored with.

To the strange and sometimes irrational, it feels as if the weather's been cool so we can continue to fast.

So Far 2013

Well, so far 2013 has been a roller coaster. It's definitely an animated year. It's full of surprises and the beautiful blessing of being with S, the wonderful man that he is has been truly a gift. I've had some of my best memories and happiest laughters in the presence, caused by S. I never thought that my heart could grow so big to love someone so much, and very deeply, fierce against all odds and no matter the kind of side effects. I simply thought I wasn't capable of that, until S, came along.

We've gotten engaged and even religiously married. Which is the same as being married. These wonderful events have become the light of my life and have been constant reminds of good fortune thus far. My heart is at rest that I've fallen in love with such a great guy and no little noises in my head about the man I've chosen. No doubts, no regrets.

But as life would have it, as any good novel would, the drama, the emotional strife and the stakes have risen double, perhaps triple. It's the highest stakes of my life so far. Though I doubt I can ever have anything more climactic and action packed that as heart wrenching as this is ever again in my life.

So, where does that leave me? It leaves me being just another person, that's perhaps much luckier than most.