bustin'

when the sun begins to dip each evening the light in our gigantic back garden is spectacular

Goodness !

And I do mean GoodNess - I'm bustin' to get a goin' this early morning and feeling oh so fine !
It's weird because I very often have a big burst of this M. Invincible energy just after I've climbed out from one of my, thankfully much more occasional, sadness sink holes.

I have all kinds of good things on my let's do, might do ... want-to-do weekend list. Some, well actually many, seemingly frivolous and soundly in the unimportant & non-urgent quadrant (a place I dearly love to hang out), some quite serious and a couple in the sigh inducing & daunting category (like vacuuming). Sigh (where does all that hair come from ?).

Les examples

frivolous
making homemade lemonade so that I can recreate this delicious drink enjoyed at Mlou's house and currently unavailable at our country grocery stores. I love anything lemon.

making this yummy sounding, it's been sticky - hot humid weather, refreshing melon salad

making strawberry mousse - it's strawberry season here in Nova Scotia

serious
I sent my portfolio/bio promo to this company and they wrote back quite suddenly saying Why don't you try designing some wall decor for us. In other words pitch us some ideas. Wow! Great! I'm on it ... so, I'm working away on a presentation with many concepts to send off via PDF Monday (self imposed deadline). I feel nervous (something that rarely happens in my work life) which is a very good sign - it means I'm very challenged and stimulated by the possibility of maybe, just maybe, working for a company that I hold in very high regard. You spread those darn creative wings girlfriend ! (I whisper to myself).

uploading stuff to my brand new, just begun (and still a design work in progress) portfolio blog.

daunting & sigh inducing
tidying, cleaning, vacuuming - basically housework of any kind (with the exceptions of making the bed, doing laundry, washing dishes and cleaning the refrigerator - love a tidy fridge). It's funny because once I've actually begun any of these chores I do enjoy (? maybe that's not the right word) doing them and always do a thorough, bang up job it's just daunting & sigh inducing in the unnecessarily long preamble leading up to making myself do any of them.

7:03 - time to hit the streets with my best girl Missy D

What's on your weekend frivolous and/or daunting weekend list ?

ps. for my recent birthday the cowboy gave me (in that 'round about manstyle gift giving way - Buy yourself something you've really been wanting Sweetie) a subscription + back issues of this amazing quarterly magazine. Hooray !!! view the current issue here