I saw pretty dancing girl-flowers today and it made me feel like spring time.
It's finals week and I've been absolutely buried in work. I'm not technically done with things until Friday, but today I had a huge final project due and we had to do a presentation, and the whole thing has pretty much consumed my life the past week or so (except that, while being consumed by this, I was also being consumed by everything else, so that was problematic). It was a HUGE weight off my shoulders to be done with it, and despite my stress and sense of defeat, I think we pulled together a pretty solid report and presentation.
We spent pretty much all day finishing everything up, but it's been SO pretty out today that all I wanted to do was go play outside and enjoy the sunshine (which I did a little at lunch, but not enough). So when we finished presentations, I was really conflicted between wanting to play outside, go to sleep, or go for a run.
This is where I come to my story. I was riding my bike home, thinking about how great it was to be riding in the sun instead of the rain, and trying to decide which of my three options I liked best, and starting to think that realistically I should go home and do a bunch of work that I have to turn in tomorrow, when I saw it. These two girls who looked like they might have been twins in bright orange tutus with hugely wide skirts that looked like flowers, and they were skipping up and down the sidewalk.
It was an AMAZING thing to see and I really wish I had a picture. I think that kids are such appropriate measures of the seasons. It's like...as we grow up, we start to regulate ourselves so that we don't really respond to changes. So many people dress more or less the same all the time, with a few changes when needed to fit the weather. We do the same things, like I ride my bike to and from school whether it's snowing or sunny...it's all just fairly monotone (although I try not to be like that as much as possible). But kids, they see that it's the first day in way too long that the sun is out, and they're out there being dancing flowers and announcing that it's spring time. I love it. It makes me SO happy!
Now I'm trying not to let it get me down that I missed most of the sunshine and that I have too much to do, and I'm sitting on my front stoop listening to some old timey music that my neighbors across the street are playing (I should know who it is because it's someone famous but I can't figure it out for the life of me...the first three songs I was pretty sure it was Jacques Brel but he was singing in english in a southern accent...silly) and it's actually really chilly but I want to enjoy the coming spring time as long as possible.
I think I shall go for a run to stay outside but be kinda warm. I hope that everyone else has beautiful "It's Spring!" moments soon!!
