Today is the official start of spring, although it's been creeping up on us over the last couple weeks. Daffodils are opening up all over town, there are buds on the trees, a few days ago it was warm enough for me to comfortably wear a tank top to the park with Max. Every year I seem to come down with seasonal affective disorder, I feel so sluggish and depressed. When spring comes back around I get the mojo to tackle major projects (like cleaning the house of all its winter accumulation). Last week I tackled the laundry monster that was swallowing the bedroom. Threw out the homemade antibiotics from the fridge. There's still a lot to be done... for some reason the harder I clean, the less routine tidying I do, which means more big messes in a matter of a few days. Two steps forward....
I've also been going to the gym a lot more regularly, which feels a lot like spring cleaning. They remodeled the women's locker room and added a dry sauna, which is so inviting. I had a big stack of unread magazines, so I've been whittling down that pile by reading them at the gym and leaving them there when I'm done. I've lost about five pounds, which is great, mainly I like how my clothes are fitting better.
I pulled out a quilt I finished piecing last year, but had only gotten about 1/8 of the actual quilting done. I hung it up in the apartment (I tied two ski poles together to hang it from, and then hung the pole from the loft) and have been working on it a little bit each day. It's a bug and butterfly themed picnic blanket, mainly in blue and yellow. Now that the weather is getting so nice it will be nice to have the blanket finished. We used it a few times last year, at the 4th of July, and when we went to see the live performance of A Prairie Home Companion, but I didn't want to use it very much until it could go in the washing machine.
So, all in all, productivity is up, morale is up, sanitation is improving... all good things. I did get a little sad when I was tidying up, smelling Adam's shirts. I picked up one of his berets and I got a little teared up. I'm just trying to channel everything into health and productivity, and trusting that will help me get through the next couple months.
