Shifts and Swings

You'd probably never know it from the outside, but my life is in upheaval at the moment. I'm trying to make some monumental decisions and plan out the next five years of my life. There are so many directions that I feel myself pulled in, but I'm trying to pick one or two, for the time being. It's hard because I feel so curious and passionate about following all these winding little paths of wonder, but I won't be able to successfully follow any of them if I don't have any preparation.

So, the phone calls start tomorrow. Asking for information, hunting down old accomplishments and the proof thereof, updating the résumé, asking for some fancy formatting help with said résumé from friends, and then organizing my home life to accommodate all these new changes.

On top of all this, I need to plan a meeting for the league's charity committee, which I am heading up this year. I have a number of ideas and I want to be as successful in their realization as I can. I know how to do this, but I need to surround myself with the right people and tools to make these events really amazing.

In less hectic news, I'm also going to see about starting this summer's seedlings this weekend. As for the indoors, I want to start looking at paint colors. The bedrooms, dining room, and living room have this really gross, fleshy color and sheen, but it doesn't look like real skin; it looks much more like I applied theatrical liquid latex to the walls. I actually held up the bottle of liquid latex I have and it matches almost exactly. If you're wondering why I have liquid latex, you obviously don't know how excited I get to play with makeup when it comes to zombies and other tricks.

For this spring and summer, I'm working on what I am calling a "happier me" plan. This involves doing artsy or cultural or healthy, feel-good stuff for no other reason than because it makes me smile. I'm hoping to see more live music, make more art, read more books, take more walks, cook more new foods, and restart my yoga practice. These are all things that have made me giddy with excitement in the past and I want to rekindle some of that joy in things that are just being done for me. I'm hoping to share them, but they aren't for anyone else, if that makes any sense.