Don't let the bed bugs bite

First, let me post a correction: I forgot to give photo credit to my wonderful paparazzi this past summer, Damien Favre.  I wish he were always around so I could actually have photos, but at least I have some great memories eternalized because of him. Thank you, Damien!

So I can't sleep.  There is so much to do and I want to do it all, and I get so distracted along the way that I end up not doing much of anything.  This seems to be a theme.  I'm good at getting things done, but there just are not enough hours in the day.  Lately, with the weather so cold and miserable, I need a lot of sleep, and food, and time to complain.

For those of you unaware, I was also attacked by these nasty little creatures most likely at my sister's apartment in the city.  I hadn't been allergic to anything until my 20s and now I need to take Claritin every morning just to breathe, I can't use medicine with Sulfa, and bed bugs make me look like leper, not to mention I get so itchy I can't stand myself. Who knew bedbugs are actually an allergic reaction?  Some of you have probably had these little guys crawl all over in the night and never even knew.  

Go figure.  

This is a great resource for those of you with a similar disposition:

http://www.bed-bug.org/

Anyways, I just wanted to post to give credit to Damien for his wonderful photo posted last week of me and my niece and hopefully write until I fall a...

This too shall pass

Call it a seasonal slump, call it whatever you want, but I think we're all getting a little sick and tired of this weather.  It has been one of the slushiest, most depressing winter seasons of my life- probably the worst that I can remember.  I've been feeling lazy and pretty much apathetic, which is not like me.  All I can do is blame it on the weather. (Note, I'm also blaming the weather for why I have been so lazy about posting.)

I normally hate when people complain about winter.  If you live in the Northeast and act surprised every winter that it's cold and it snows, then just move already.  No one is making you stay.  But at this point, that is exactly how I feel.  I just want to get out of here already... And if it weren't for the snow and my serious lack of funds, I would be on a Caribbean cruise sipping mojitos right now.  But I guess it's all what you make of it, right?

I love the seasons and we can't have spring if we never have winter, and the worse the winter, the better the spring, right?  It is the first of February and in a month it will be March already; that glorious month they say goes in like a lion and out like a lamb.  When you're feeling down and dysfunctional, just remember: This Too Shall Pass.

This post brought to you by the letter S:  Snow, Spring, then Soon it will be Summer, Sunglasses, and Sand.

Here I am with my niece this summer in the park.  Sun and Sunglasses. SO wonderful.