Here are a couple of photos from this year’s prom at the top of the Pike Place Market.

My hair is curled, so it’s really longer than this, but you may notice it’s lighter–I got highlights a couple of months ago.

Weekend Ten

1. If you could fly in a hot air balloon over any city in the world, which city would it be?
Venice or Machu Picchu. I’d rather visit a city, though, by walking around it.

2. Of all your favorite foods, which one would you find the hardest to give up completely for the rest of your life?
Cheese of any variety. Chocolate would be next.

3. What is your favorite musical instrument? What is your least favorite musical instrument?
Favorite–guitar due to versatility, followed by the fiddle or banjo
Least Favorite–um…spoons?

4. Who do you admire and why?
My husband–he’s so sweet to me and does household chores, too! If I know someone as well as I know him and I still admire him, that’s saying something, right?

5. Use 5 words: Describe yourself and be truthful!
Optimistic
Adventurous
Industrious
Curious
Friendly

6. Batman, Superman, Spiderman, or one of the X-Men… or maybe another… Who’s your favorite superhero?

Well, I don’t know if she counts, but I’d have to go with Buffy or any other kick-butt female superhero.

7. Who’s your favorite villain?
right now, the creepy “Other” Ben is intriguing me

8. Which actors are your favorite to watch?

9. What’s the saying you live by?
Do unto others….

10. What’s your best feature?
Physically: my cheekbones and maybe my smile?
Non-physically: I’m pretty patient and easy-going unless I don’t get my way

Summer is my one time to get away. Last summer I definitely did that–I had an excellent summer full of adventure on a 2-week road trip, a week-long workshop near Mt. Rainier, and almost two weeks in Hawaii. This summer does not yet have anticipation built into it, and because of that, I am feeling restless. I’ve had my first taste of summer this weekend, and because I didn’t have many plans Sunday, I got that listless, bored, sleepy feeling that I despise so much. don’t get me wrong–there was plenty I could have done, but I just didn’t feel like it–there was no pressure to do anything by a certain time. All I did was read and nap before my friend’s going-away party.

I can see my summer days becoming like that since I am not in grad school and I have no job or definite plans. This troubles me. I want to be someone who can just wake up and take care of chores around the house, read, tend my garden, visit with friends, and more without feeling like that isn’t enough. What I REALLY want to do this summer is take a cheap, hassle-free trip to a developing country–all arranged by someone else–and explore it while helping other people. I want to go to Costa Rica, Peru, Thailand, Kenya–anywhere where they’ll take me! I need something to wake up for each morning, yet I don’t want to have to wake up early EVERY morning. I also don’t want to necessarily be in Seattle all summer.

Why am I so restless? Why can’t I be content to enjoy Seattle’s excellent, tranquil summers? I know I’m afraid of boredom even though there’s so much to do around here. I want to escape here when the chance arises, because once the school year returns, I am tied down again. Grrr….Any solutions?