Reflections: A Small Tale

I window shop during the holidays. It's a favorite pastime. Every shop pulls out all the stops to become an eye catching commodity. The windows become brightly lit dioramas, showing you a glimpse, a moment, of something unique.

But as I walked passed something felt off. I paused in front of a particularly festive window. The lights were twinkling in time to some music, but it was not the decoration that was wrong. It was the reflection that I was looking past.

I stepped back a few feet, and watched the reflection of the city-scape sharpen. But is was not the same cityscape. The buildings were all wrong. Some were shorter, most were of a different color than the uniform gray. And the people, were not the people walking past the sidewalk behind me.

I stood there for a long while, unable to turn around. I can't say if it was the desire to stay in what I knew, or hope, for a moment, to see this new city that suddenly looked more like home than home did currently. I wasn't sure which one I would end up in.

Birdhouse: A Small Tale

It sits innocuously on the shelf. A birdhouse. It could be thought of as a curio piece. Except that I have birdseed and water attached that are clearly not fake.

The question I get, is why do I have food and water indoors?

It is set up for birds, I reply.

Well then, why isn't it outside for the birds to use? 

I have house birds that live indoors. 

Then either derision or confusion, since no birds can be seen twittering about the house. It gets chalked up to whimsy or eccentricity.

I don't mind though. The birds are shy and don't flutter about the house when strange people are about. They come when I least expect it. I can see them best in the morning or late afternoon. When the light strikes them just right and facets of light bounce, creating beautiful rainbow shades.

A Sweet Present Unveiled

I've been neglecting my blogs for the past month. I did not mean to, I've just been a bit busy lately. I've been collecting paperwork and helping get things ready for an awesome new change in my life.

We bought a house!

This is a big thing for my husband and myself. Up until now it's been renting apartments and houses with roommates. I thought we would be renting until retirement. But we finally decided that if we're going to keep tossing money at housing it might as well be something we can invest in. 

I already have all these thoughts, ideas, and plans for what I want to do. I have no idea which ones will stay an idea and which will become reality but I am so looking forward to it all. I can change the paint color if I want to. Rearrange the furniture because I won't be reduced to a single room to use. Create a unified theme of decorations throughout. Or at least attempt to. And build an entire wall of bookshelves to place books and random stuff on.

::sudden epiphany::

I can start doing all those crafts I've seen online that I've always wanted to make. All the things I've been waiting for to do that space constriction necessitated that I wait on.

So no more waiting.

No more trying to keep stuff neatly organized between my space and theirs.

No more keeping it all in small spaces, boxes, and out of sight.

No more telling myself that the thing I wanted to do wasn't feasible.

Because the entire space is mine mine mine!

::kermit flail::

Yay!!!!!

Wait....

So what does this mean in terms of my blog?
Well I can finally unpack those boxes of books that have been hiding away in storage for a year and a half. I can go back and hold my books in my hands.

I'll be busy the next few weeks moving stuff and unpacking. But I'll do my best to keep my reviews going.  If I veer off and start talking about something other than books forgive me. I'm just really excited by all this. 

So hold on. This ride is going to finally take off after so much mechanical delay.

Spider: A Small Tale

I see the webs constantly. I just think it's just an unusual season of bugs.

The spiders are trying to tell me something. I don't even realize this at first. All I notice is that I'm finding cobwebs in the oddest of places. My car window, the bathroom, across the back door.

I would dismiss them as nuisance were it not for the webs themselves. They've gradually become complicated creations, with strange knots and whorls. Sometimes when the light strikes them just right I can even see different strands of color.

I don't know what the message is.

I'm worried I won't figure out the message in time.