Summer Creations

I have a conundrum when the warm weather hits. I want to be out and about doing things. Restaurants, plays, concerts, parks, neighborhoods, museums, I want to see it all. But then all the home stuff starts to build up. Laundry, dishes, cleaning, even fun stuff like movies, the animals, beading, that need me home to do. There is also something completely appealing about being home, sitting on the porch, listening to the birds tweet and the bugs buzz.

The answer might seem to be go out some days, stay home others. I still have the problem where my home time is chore time. Keeping up with the work to make the house enjoyable means less time for enjoying, even if that shorter time is better for being cleaner and more organized, still, less of it. The thing I like about being out is that there is always something new - new place, new people, new events, while home feels more predictable, not in a bad way but less energetic and the summer for me is all about high energy.

I think the real solution is to make those home times, even the chore times, more unpredictable. Do my laundry wearing a tiara, see how long I can stand on tiptoes while doing the dishes, play hide and seek with the vacuum, it is all about generating that same feeling even when you are doing something that is antithetical to that feeling.

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