hey, universe ...

It's kinda weird how things happen sometimes. Do you believe in signs? I am in two minds about them. The rational part of me (which is admittedly quite small) says pffft, but the rest (ie overwhelming majority) of me is all ooh, maybe ...? I can't help it. My family is southern Italian on one side and Russian on the other, so it was practically inevitable that I would grow up to read alarming things into seemingly normal occurrences and avoid stuff like saying goodbye to someone under the threshold because otherwise one of us will die (I always either pull D into the foyer or push him back into the apartment when I farewell him in the mornings, much to his amusement), never putting pillows on the table because, well, somebody will die and, wherever possible, not having the foot of the bed facing a doorway or a window, because otherwise Death (are you detecting a theme here?) will have super easy access to drag you out by your ankles and apparently you have a much better chance of it leaving you alone if it has to go to the effort of manoeuvering you around a corner.

Hm wow, it looks totally ridiculous when I write it down like that.

But anyway, that's actually not at all what I wanted to go on about today.

What I really wanted to say was that over the past week or so, I have received a bunch of (what I'm going to call) signs - good ones! - that could not have come at a better time, and which have managed to tip me from endlessly contemplating to doing.  I choose to see them as little nudges from the universe :)  I have no idea of how it's all going to work out just yet as my plans are very much in the formative stages, but it's exciting and scary and cool, all rolled into one, and I can't wait to share more with you once things have progressed a little further.  D is being fabulous, even if he is constantly subjected to half-formed sentences like "hey babe, I was thinking that maybe ..."  The ridiculous thing is that if I trail off and he doesn't ask "what?" I feel a little miffed, but even if he does ask, I only ever say "oh, nevermind."  The poor man.

So ultimately, this turned out to be a kind of nothing post! but hopefully you at least like the picture :)