Yes, yes it is. Finally. I think last year I remember even the beginning of April had delightful greenery...
and here we are, only days from May, and the maple outside my bedroom window only started to green up two days ago!
But now, Spring is Busting Out. Everywhere. It's becoming green, green GREEN. And it happened, just like *that*.
I'd love it if Saturday hit 60 or was anything like today. Mmmm.
PS:
The Hudson has swelled over its banks in the last few days, what with ice and snow coming down on Sunday, followed by rain the last several days. The dam just north of downtown is nearly invisible, plus many of the roads south of us have been flooded. I heard from Libby that the basement was flooded with nine inches of water on Monday morning - ugh!
Despite all that, I walk outside and SMELL Spring! It's moist, humid, warm...even with the swift breezes that blow. It's coming. It's turning the grass just a little greener every day, and people tell me of crocuses blooming (I have yet to see one) all over.
What a busy week I've had.
Mark showed up late last night as I briefly awoke. Rachel's been here all week, and I've been back and forth working every other day. When I'm not at work (and dropping food on the floor - today was yogurt, a piece of Luna Bar, some cottage cheese, and just now some of my dinner) we've been working really hard at being crafty. I, too, was also spending much time praying to the God of Printers as I babysat said printer.
uh....the weather.... wow!!! totally classic nurse.
the saga: drove into work at 6:30am on v-day, wednesday, slipping and sliding like a mofo. i was only supposed to work 8 hours. they asked me to work 4 more hours for double pay(!) since people weren't making it in. of course i said SURE...and they let me take 4 hours off thursday (today, the 15th).
4:30pm wednesday i slog through the snow to clean off my car in the parking lot - people are NUTS on the roads, nothing is cleaned off. there's a guy in the parking lot with a shovel, and they are *just* starting to plow the lot. the guy with the plow literally plows me out, and the other guy shovels me the rest of the way out. huzzah!
...Already!
I've been going to yoga once a week, which helps me feel so much better at work! Plus the wedding stuff just keeps coming!
I have seen snow! (um...I cheated. I headed north to visit my friends Juli and Zach Jakub in Lake Placid, NY) It was freezing cold and they have much more snow there than we have here in the Capital Region. I spent time with Juli and Zach, and their Eight Animals - Siobhan and Monk their dogs, their two ferrets, and, let's see if I can recall their 4 horses' names...nope, only two: Be and Thunder.
Had a great time but I need to go make some lasagna for tomorrow, I work a 12. Can't believe the wedding will be here so soon.
S
Edit: I nearly forgot to mention the very cool film festival I was just in time for up in Lake Placid: the Banff Mountain Festival, and Zach's amazing chicken/veggie curry - YUM.
Books:
Past - The Tipping Point
Current (nearly done) - Blink
Future - The Female Brain
It's January, I'm not sick anymore, and I just had a three-day weekend and spent all day Saturday lindyhopping!! I took a workshop on lindy-blues and one on aerials with my friends Adam and Camille! Wowwee!
And Mark and I went dancing Saturday night and there were many people out and many wonderful dances to be had to the live band (Solomon Douglas Quartet). I enjoyed myself tremendously.
Off topic, the weather's been oddly warm - 70+ degrees out - and our heat never came on, so Saturday night we spent freezing. Then the heat got turned up Sunday night because no one else's heat came on either, and we sweated all night at 70+ degrees.
Tim's been over hanging out several times in the last week and a half...doing research for his paper and helping make delicious food. I'm going to miss him when he's gone this summer!
Tomorrow I go back to work so it's time for bed. Ciao bella.
