Easter!

Happy (belated) Easter!

What a fabulous weekend. Friday night Hanna celebrated her birthday, and then allllll day Saturday was an Easter celebration! I cooked a pretty big spread of food.

Roasted garlic and chive mashed potatoes, homemade vegetarian sage gravy, fried oysters with remoulade, and green beans. Mmm. I'm getting hungry just thinking about it.

In other news...school is three weeks away from being over. When did that happen?! It's fantastic. The weather is (or was, at some point) getting warmer and I am slowly feeling the terrifying and enthralling sense of freedom creeping over me. What will I do? Who knows. I have so many things I want to pursue. I plan on:
-cooking lots and lots of food and trying new recipes
-taking pictures
-reading until my library card disintegrates
-tending to Chris and I's garden
-bird watching!

Satisfied

Few things are more beautiful than a snow storm in the country. Ever the cynic, I refused to believe that the snow would amount to anything, and school would commence as usual on Monday.

I was wrong!!! After having dinner with our new neighbors, which was quite a success, Chris and I emerged to a snowy, slippery, silent city. By morning, there was six inches of snow. A real snow day! It was fantastic.

Perspective

That's what it's all about. Putting things into perspective.

I've been thinking a lot lately about "school getting in the way of life." And I've decided I can't let it do that any longer. I need to revisit those extracurricular things that I used to love, and had no connection to school whatsoever.

I need to walk outside, to experience and encounter simple things. Dew on a leaf in the morning, peach sunsets falling onto blue mountains, the sounds of Spring returning to us once again.

Simplicity in nature. Simplicity in company, in food, in life.

It's all in how you look at it.

motivation

well...I wanted to take more pictures.
So I did.

wednesday

Also known as "me time day." A day when I have obligations to no one but myself, to nothing but what I feel I need to do. A rare opportunity in a senior year, and one that could quite possibly disappear in the "real world," so I'm taking advantage of it. I took this Wednesday, in particular, to plot out what I would like to do, at some point, at some time...soon.

List:
-learn to sew
-try at least one new recipe a week, pending funds
-reclaim my camera and the images it wants to capture
-find a way to wake up without a headache
-spend more time outside