Ack!! Fog is hanging thick in the trees and I’m checking to see if this is going to burn off or if we’re stuck with a gray day. In the meantime, I’m turning on every light in the house–my version of light therapy. There’s just something about this time of year that it’s far too easy to slide into depression.
To add insult to injury, a friend called me a couple of weeks ago. Yet another friend of a friend had a time share in Aruba that was expiring and would I like to go the last week of February? Uh-huh. As it now.
Gee, let me think…cold, barren-treed Atlanta or an island in the Caribbean? Don’t have to burn too many brain cells working out that one.
Passport? Check.
Bathing suit? Check.
Pedicure? Check.
What more do you need to visit a tropical paradise?
Manuscript on schedule…picture Edvard Munch’s The Scream at this point. :O Problem is I’ve owned a little case of writer’s block and slipped behind schedule. Plus, there’s the familial duty thing–my daughter’s on winter break this week….
Total WAH! Forget sea kayaking, sugar white sand, blue and green hued translucent water, cabana boys bearing Mai Tais… Wait!! I have a lap top. Right! Face it, this dog’s just not gonna hunt. 
So, it’s Send-Your-Daughter-To-Work-Week-With-Her-Dad at our house, I’m mentally locked in that apartment during a blackout, and trying very hard not to think about Aruba.
Oh yeah, and turning on lots of lights.
Hey, girl! What a great site!
Now, you’ve got me dreaming of Aruba. My niece and her family just got back from Costa Rica — swinging from ropes in the jungle canopy. Fun, but I’d rather be lazing on a beach. Since I’m on deadline and doing neither, I can dream, right?
Hope you enjoy blogging. I don’t blog every day (don’t want to bore people), but I do have fun with it. I’m sure you will, too.
Thanks for the link to my website. I’ve added you to my next update list.
Cheers!
Deb
Comment by Deb Salonen — February 21, 2005 @ 10:32 am
I just had to comment on the light therapy thing. I’m addicted to the sun. And thankfully here on the Texas Gulf Coast, I get it most of the year. That said, it has been gloomy the last two weeks and I’ve had every light in my bedroom/office burning bright! I even write outside all year round - except when the days hit 90+!!!
Comment by Alison — February 21, 2005 @ 1:14 pm
Hey, Deb. Costa Rica is defintely on my short list of places to go next! Alas, I’m feeling your deadline blues, hon.
LOL, Alison, on your sun addiction, but I understand completely. Everything can be going to hell in a handbasket–but, hey, if the sun’s shining…. I love Alaska and Canada, but I’ve only been in the summer. Just not sure I could handle those winters. Now, Mexico, either the Baja or Yucatan…that’s a different story.
Comment by Jen — February 21, 2005 @ 1:45 pm