Ansty-Pants
I'm all wriggly with unfocused energy. I've spent six straight hours in this office chair correcting manuscripts, so concentrated that I barely suffered my lack of breakfast and lunch, but I don't know what to do with my free time this evening that will get my mind off of sleep long enough for me to accomplish something real. I don't know what it is, this unsettledness. I wonder if it could be cured by buying a new shirt, starting a new project, opening a new book that I can read without keeping track of my pages-per-hour progress. Something tells me I'm looking for a big change. I want to tighten up my glutes, buy some real estate, redecorate a room so it looks all soft and dewy, like a white-and-seafoam-green page out of Martha Stewart Living. I want to make lemon bars and package them in cellophane and ribbon and send them out to friends. I want to throw a party and serve some imagined appetizer that will be fantastic and henceforth known as the thing I do best. I want to take down all the artwork and hang the walls with as many family photos as will fit. I want an entirely new wardrobe, shoes and accessories too. I want either the swirling of random thoughts to STOP RIGHT NOW or fall in line into some measure of sense, if not writerly brilliance.
Maybe the trip to England in a few weeks will sate me. Maybe the Grand Cohabitation of 2006 (late September!) will do the job. Maybe I need to get that new car. Maybe when we host Thanksgiving for both sets of parents...Maybe our two-day, two-state Christmas plans...Maybe it's just the anticipation of exciting times that's driving me nuts.
Thankfully, the perfect thing is the most important thing. It's good to have this (even the gravity-defying bra straps):
This is one of my all time favourite photos of you two.
Looking for a big change? What happened to all the talk about moving to Chile? =)
And that photo just caused me to realize what looks so familiar to me about you. Your eyes are the eyes that many of the women of my family have. Not me, mine are too squinty. But my grandma and aunts, yes. I mean that as a compliment of course. How could it not be complimentary to be compared to my family members? =)
xo
you have two day, two-state christmas plans already? we can't even decide which day we're leaving california to move to detroit, even though we have a feeling it'll be in about three weeks.
sounds like some exciting times for you ahead.
I knew I was behind! Dangit! I only know what I'm doing tomorrow. Well, shoot.
WONDERFUL picture. I just luff it. It's so freeing.
Let me know if you need my mailing address for the lemon bars.
:)
Don't forget to budget some time for a fall trip to Philadelphia (I just snagged a temporary apartment this morning). Sorry I've dropped off the radar screen, but you can expect something from me in the not-so-distant future.
Hey Leah!!
I love your blog! Hope you don't mind me adding you to my links list. Drop by my space sometime for a look-see. It would make me to happy-happy!! :o)
Cheers!
Great shot! You guys are fantastic together.
:)
I know that feeling well. Let us sew dotted swiss curtains and send home made thank you notes and listen to Astrid Gilberto.
And wear palazzo pants.
I hate that feeling of nothing-that-I-have-to-do-will-make-me-feel-better antsiness... sooo frustrating. Good luck trying to settle it.
i love your hotness! and i am LMFAO @ all the pics below of the hideous bib!
Knowing that you and your boyfriend are HAWT must do something to make your heart settle. :) Really, you guys should do a catalogue or something.
what are palazzo pants?
I've got antsy pants, too. I know what the real source of mine is (my desperation to quit my day job), but I've also managed to convince myself that some pretty new blouses and jeans and a fully furnished living room could be a cure-all.
I love that picture to death.
Change is good, and it's always just around the corner. Nonchange is good, and it's always just around the corner.
Nice pic. I'd start your artwork rearranging with a blown-up copy of it. Add family pics. Enjoy.