It's a soggy Sunday...
...but I'm feeling fine, because I've finally had a chance to catch up on rest (despite being woken at 5 AM by tweets delivered to my phone), Othello is doing very well (despite the limitations of the Cone of Shame), and I'm making headway on back-to-school prep (because the beginning of semester cometh and that right soon). This feels like very welcome progress. :-)
Other good things: I beta-read a fabulous and funny story yesterday (about which I can say no more ~enigmatic smile~), and I had an opportunity for cooking and baking, too. I have a ton of blueberries (it's been a bumper crop blueberry sort of summer), so I made both an Almond-Blueberry Loaf and a Lemon-Blueberry Crumb Cake. I also have a mammoth basket of fresh veggies from my neighbor's garden, which he very kindly brought over to my house earlier this week, so I put together a Greek-ish pasta salad with lots of fresh tomatoes and cucumber, adding in some slivered Kalamata olives and feta cheese and topping it off with a dressing that's primarily a drizzle of olive oil, infused with very thinly sliced garlic and a healthy dose of dried hot peppers.
And now I am savoring the second pot of coffee for the day, writing a bit, listening to Bowie, enjoying the calm--which normally bores me and makes me anxious, but is very welcome right now--and mulling the realization that I had last night: Project Peacock's one-year anniversary was this past week, which means that I have been doing this pursuit-of-happiness, master-of-my-own-destiny, shiny, healthy, life-remodeling thing for a year now. ~blinks~
It's a bit hard to wrap my mind around that at the moment, that it's been a full year and that so many things have changed so much in that period of time. In a way, it feels like it's only been a few weeks. In another way, it feels like it was a lifetime ago. In a few days, I'm sure I'll have something more thoughtful to write on the subject, but at the moment, it's dizzying to consider the scope of the changes. I can say only that I am confident and happy--very, very happy--and more authentically myself than I have been in years, and that I have enjoyed beyond words the ability to share this project with all my friends and watch them all shine. Without their inspiration, support, and encouragement, I'm sure none of this would have been possible.
I can also say that I don't regret a single moment of it, and that I look forward to many, many more peacocky years ahead of me. :D
Other good things: I beta-read a fabulous and funny story yesterday (about which I can say no more ~enigmatic smile~), and I had an opportunity for cooking and baking, too. I have a ton of blueberries (it's been a bumper crop blueberry sort of summer), so I made both an Almond-Blueberry Loaf and a Lemon-Blueberry Crumb Cake. I also have a mammoth basket of fresh veggies from my neighbor's garden, which he very kindly brought over to my house earlier this week, so I put together a Greek-ish pasta salad with lots of fresh tomatoes and cucumber, adding in some slivered Kalamata olives and feta cheese and topping it off with a dressing that's primarily a drizzle of olive oil, infused with very thinly sliced garlic and a healthy dose of dried hot peppers.
And now I am savoring the second pot of coffee for the day, writing a bit, listening to Bowie, enjoying the calm--which normally bores me and makes me anxious, but is very welcome right now--and mulling the realization that I had last night: Project Peacock's one-year anniversary was this past week, which means that I have been doing this pursuit-of-happiness, master-of-my-own-destiny, shiny, healthy, life-remodeling thing for a year now. ~blinks~
It's a bit hard to wrap my mind around that at the moment, that it's been a full year and that so many things have changed so much in that period of time. In a way, it feels like it's only been a few weeks. In another way, it feels like it was a lifetime ago. In a few days, I'm sure I'll have something more thoughtful to write on the subject, but at the moment, it's dizzying to consider the scope of the changes. I can say only that I am confident and happy--very, very happy--and more authentically myself than I have been in years, and that I have enjoyed beyond words the ability to share this project with all my friends and watch them all shine. Without their inspiration, support, and encouragement, I'm sure none of this would have been possible.
I can also say that I don't regret a single moment of it, and that I look forward to many, many more peacocky years ahead of me. :D