I've decided to start blogging again, sort of a, if you fall off a horse, jump back on, sort of thing.  And I've decided I'll probably write about an eclectic assortment of things.  That's sort of the way I roll.  I tried to name this blog with things that I'm partial too, but there are so many more and varied things that interest me, so this will probably turn out to be a smattering.  That's me, eclectic. :)   So here goes.

Something I'm so excited about right now is that I'm getting back into writing.  I have a completed picture book and another that I'm working on.  And a book or a series that I've been mulling over in my mind.  I don't mean this as boasting in any way!  I just am saying, be happy with me.  I've had the picture book and the book/series on my mind for many years, I just didn't know how to put it together, and now feels like the time.  I'm looking into how to get an agent, and it's fun and exciting.  And it takes at least a year to write a book, I'm reading from the experts, so that's what I'm expecting with the book/series.  And I feel up for that.  Which is a blessing.  I'm also reading that writing, publishing and all that goes with it is hard, a hassle...a journey, so I think to myself, why not take it?  Why not?  Especially when the writing bit makes me so happy.  :)

Also, I planted my seeds, for my starts for my garden mid March, and they make me happy!
I may have planted them too early.  I do that, I get so excited.  I have tomato plants that are eight inches high, in three inch pots.  And I can't plant until after Mother's Day, and maybe a week after that because Mother's Day is early this year, because of the cold evening temperatures where I live.  Oh no.  But seedlings make me happy.  And flowers.  I love Spring.  I love all the renewal and rebirth.  Beautiful.

I had a funny experience the other day.  I had to go have an MRI, and my Dr. called it in to this radiology center.  It was fancy.  All they did there was radiology.  I was kinda confused.  I asked them what hospital they were affiliated with.  They answered me, a little bit snootily, that they were not affiliated with any hospital.  So I asked them if they cost more than a hospital.  They said no, but I wondered...they had real oil paintings on the walls.  I approve of real oil paintings.  On any walls.  They had these headphones they put over my ears so I could hear music.  My choice of music.  It was lovely, in between the bang, bang, banging of the machine.  But when they lay me back on the table, under their fancy machine, their ceiling tiles looked just like hospital ceiling tiles. ;)  Reminded me I was still a patient, fanciness or not.  And I still felt a little like a slab of meat.

Laying under that massive machine, my mind turned to technology.  Duh.  Thank goodness for technology, truly.  I think we are blessed to have it.  But sometimes I wonder, is the technology for us to run, or are we run by the technology? ;)