I Got A Room At The Top Of The World Tonight.
Every now and then, I write to music. Should you want to read this to the song I wrote it to, here you go:
It’s Spring Break this week. And Easter. And Athena’s five-month birthday. Oh, and she lost a tooth on Easter Eve!
So there was this awkward collision on Saturday night in which the Dog Tooth Fairy and the Easter Bunny may or may not have met at our house in the middle of the night. I’d like to believe that they met and shared a snack around our dining room table, under the watchful gaze of Han Solo. That’s what I’d like to believe. What did they talk about during the night, do you think?
They probably said that we’re nerds. Nerds with good snacks.
There’s also an awkward collision of leftover winter air and warm spring fronts. The mornings? Frigid. The afternoons? Heavenly. I’m spending a lot of time up in my office, enjoying the spring breezes that occasionally make their way up here. I’m working on a giant data entry project again, and this might be my biggest one yet in the five years of doing this. I’m also working on my sister’s engagement photos, and when I am able, I work on my personal photos. I’m backed up by the hundreds!
I’m also nursing a two day crying hangover, after being overwhelmed by life on Friday night. This is why I don’t cry a lot. Sometimes I worry I won’t ever stop. The next morning we somehow made it to the Easter Bunny breakfast, with its lackluster food, and then enjoyed a breezy train ride around the park, then took a break for lunch, and then went to the insane egg hunt.
As I sat down among my recent photos, I saw a common theme – bird’s eye views of adorableness going on while I’m clearly working, because my photos are taken from my second story office. This makes me sad, to see adorableness from a bird’s eye view. Then I realize I’m lucky to see such beauty and that I set my own work and hours, so I can just race downstairs and embrace it all, should I choose. And I chose it. I do choose it. I choose to embrace the adorableness, when at all possible.
And this is what I see when I peek down over the wooden railing:
“I got someone who loves me tonight
I got over a thousand dollars in the bank
And I’m all right
Look deep in the eyes of love
Look deep in the eyes of love
And find out what you were looking for” — Tom Petty
