Catching Up to My Normal Routine

Have you ever felt like you are constantly having to catch-up on things? Periodically i feel like this, particularly when the calendar gets too packed with stuff (e.g. book club, weekends away, business trips, visitors over the weekend, parties, etc...). Part of it or most of it is self-inflicted. I make these plans and they sound good when i am planning them but once the day to implement the plans approaches i often feel ambivalent.  

I think the ambivalence stems from the fact that i really like my "normal" routine. It has balance.  It is easy. It requires little or no planning and is fulfilling.  So when things get busy, it disrupts my equilibrium and then i feel like i spend a lot of time catching up to my normal routine.  I guess that's the nature of the beast. That's life!  

Anyway, part of catching up to my normal routine, includes writing more blog entries so i hope to write a few more before this month ends!  

St. Pattys Day in NYC

Before the month of March is gone, i thought i would write a quick note about a recent business trip to NYC. I was there over St. Patricks Day which is a VERY BIG DEAL in the City. It wasn't that big of a deal growing up in Texas but i NYC there are so many Irish Americans that the City is covered in Green on St. Pattys day.  Everywhere you turn on St. Pattys day in NYC, people are wearing green sweaters, ties, scarfs, hats, socks...and all the Irish pubs are flying the flag of Ireland proudly.  

After my colleagues and I finished our meeting on St. Pattys day, we went to the local Irish pub near the NY office (one block away) and of course it was packed. There was a traditional Irish band playing, including a fiddle and accordion. One of the young female accordion players in the band was the daughter of one of my colleagues.  He was very proud to see her up there on the stage.  That night he was sort of passing a baton of sorts to her as he use to play the fiddle in a band at this Irish pub on St. Pattys Day and we use to all go over to the pub to listen to him play and drink Guiness.  

California Uber Alles!

My husband and I just spent a great long weekend in the California Bay area.  I LOVE the Bay area, in particular the pungent smell of the mile high Eucalyptus trees, the micro-climates, the light breeze and birds-eye vistas of the City from hilltop trails above Palo Alto, the ubiquitous yellow fields of mustard, the warm sunny February skies of Half Moon Bay, the wineries, the redwoods, the art, the cliffs, the Ferries, the Embarcadero, the amazing egg scrambles, the list goes on and on!  Despite the earthquakes, California rocks!  California Uber Alles!