Ohhhh. It's September.

September.

It's my favorite month. I'm obsessively listening to September Grass by James Taylor and his whole album October Road is wonderful and then I listen to this song a lot too because it's one of my all time favorites.

Plus, we are having a fabulous Indian Summer right now which makes up for the fact that winter lasted until June.

September also means that I pull out my delicious recipe for Pumpkin bread with chocolate chips which my mother, sister and I all make. It is do die for.

There is a great deal of change about to go on in my life and I'm still standing on the precipice of it. I can't wait to see what happens...

Fun Stuff and other Random Thoughts

Okay. Now I know I'm probably the last person here to hear about this and hop on the hay ride but tonight I finally got around to checking out Pandora.com and well, I'm a big fan of Soft Rock. (And don't gimme that look, you know you like it too.) Anyway, they picked out the Doobie Brother's- What A Fool Believes and then Bruce Springsteen- Hungry Heart (who is awesome because he's a Jersey Boy and he always reminds me of home, being a teenager and the Jersey Shore!) I think I found my new little favorite love.

Yes. I heart Pandora.com.

Plus.....I had the best weekend. I think I ate my weight in food, okay, that's probably not that much but you know what I mean... but I ran and hiked like a crazy girl and it didn't even rain once!

Next personal goal for the summer...work on being a better communicator. Let's just say I'm good at putting my foot in my mouth at times. Ugh. The Bible says that it's impossible to tame the tongue, but oh how I wish I could!

Random And Not So Random Thoughts

I'm plopped on the couch. Drinking blueberry tea and watching a program about Jesus on the Discovery Channel.

I'm thinking about Spring coming soon....

Today was St. Patrick's Day. They don't call me Colleen Maloney for nothing. If I could have, I would have been out tonight doing some Irish Step Dancing (Yes, the Riverdance kind) in my black clogging shoes. But it was not to be this year...

Yesterday, I ran the St. Pat's Dash in Seattle with 15,500 people. It was nuts and really fun. People were dressed in costumes and goofy running get-ups. One guy was running in his green "tighty-whitie" underpants. I didn't actually see him, but my friend did and said he actually won a prize for his "costume".

There was also this one guy about my age who kept a good pace and I basically followed him the whole way. I realized that running in his wake kept me from having to dodge between people because he was doing it for me. Then he started loosing steam and I caught up to him and told him to keep going because I was following him. Well, he sure perked up after that. It was funny to me how such a small word of encouragement could work, even to a stranger. It smelled like rain and sweat as I ran through the tunnels of downtown Seattle. I felt like I was running in a herd of human cattle but all in all it was a pretty exhilarating.

So, back to Spring. I love spring, because it's a time of new beginnings. My birthday's coming up and every year for the past few years I've been taking stock of things in my life around this time...things I want to do, things I haven't done. I just want to learn to live more purposefully, does that make sense?

Something I've decided to do is to take a break from my blog and reading blogs. I know I do that from time to time. But this time, I'm going to take a considerable break and when I come back, then you will know I'm back. I may still write on the other blog though...I don't know. I just really want to limit my time on the Internet, as I waste a lot of time on it and I feel like there are other more productive ways that I want to be spending my time. I cannot ignore my email though, as it is a life line to my job. So feel free to shoot me an email and update me on life if you feel so inclined. I promise I'll respond =)