Lovely Lazy Summer

I had big plans for this summer...big, big plans. I was going to really delve into my writing...specifically my new play, "SUGAR & STILETTOS - an obsessive baking odyssey". I was going to whip that first draft into tip top shape getting it ready for a first reading which is the first developmental step on the way to a workshop production, then a full production. Oh, yeah, I was going to be in the middle of a creative fire this summer.

Then, I was going to do a ton of recreational baking....tons and tons of new recipe baking...tons and tons of delicious, over the top yummy stuff that I would immediately get up on the S & S website.

Then, I was going to clean out Joshua's room...closets, drawers, shelves....everything. By the time he came home from sleep away camp on Aug. 7th, his life by way of his now perfectly overhauled room, would be transformed completely.

Then, I was going to get into shape...I mean REALLY good shape...lots of exercising, eating right and taking exceptionally good care of myself.

Well, I am here to tell you that I have done NONE of those things. Oh, I have read the first draft of my play exactly two times. And, I have tried a couple of new recipes. I have cleared out a few shirts and pants from Joshua's closet that clearly don't fit him anymore...I have even worked up a sweat once or twice...but that's about it.

Instead of a frenzy of activity, I have opted to do, well, not much of anything that requires effort of any kind. Instead, I have chosen to read A LOT of books. Now, I am always reading one book or another (few things make me happier than to be curled up with a good book) so that's no great change in my life except that I'm doing more of it than usual. I've probably plowed through at least seven books in the last month or so.

After dropping Joshua off at camp on July 20th I did go to Chicago to visit my best friend, Penny, for five days where I did enjoy eating a bunch of great food, going to the movies and seeing Jeff Garlin do his stand up routine at Steppenwolf. I've been home since Monday night and have been doing pretty much nothing ever since...a movie and a couple of dinners out if that counts at all. The next fews days I have more nothing planned and then  I'll leave for San Francisco on Tuesday to spend four days with my UC Berkeley friend, Tracy (yes, she of the Cal Cheerleading outfit fame). We are going to go to the theatre, eat a lot of great food, maybe go to Napa for a day, stroll on campus and pretend that we are nineteen again...yes, it's going to be grueling. I'll get home just in time to pick Joshua up from camp.

For the next month after that, I have to admit that I have more nothing whatsoever planned. I felt very guilty about all of this crazy low key energy in the beginning but now I've just given in to my lovely lazy ways of the summer of 2011. Some things are simply meant to be...it's actually quite delightful and liberating.

So, my darlings. all I can say is follow your heart. If it tells you to be busier than a bee, than go for it....buzz around to your heart's content. However, if it tells you to kick back and enjoy a long, slow ride for a while...well, do just that...be still your heart...the world will most definitely be there for you whenever you feel like returning to the rat race!

xoxo Nanci