Spring Changes

Iiiiiiiit's my birthday month, baybee!!

I count March as "late winter" (even post-Ostara), but April? That's spring, all day, baby. We've had a little snow, but only very little. We've had a bit of rain and clouds and we've also had a decent amount of sun. I am so happy. Returning, once again, to the comfort of being tethered to me / my body / mind. Returning to life. No longer whipping around like a released balloon. 

Time to get back to things like reading and writing. And likely ease up on the cooking and baking a bit, as the appeal of socializing in restaurants will once more be upon me. (RIP, savings account.)

I wonder if I'll dye my hair, once the weather turns. I haven't dyed it since coming down here, nearly 3 years ago. Whatever I lacked in dye and bleach, I have more than made up for it in cuts and styles. I've had long blond, blond bob, grown the blond out and gotten a pixie, grown it all out into a shag kind of situation, shaved it bald for the first time, grown out a mohawk for the first time and now it's grown into a kind of pixie, again. (Wow. I really just went on for a paragraph about my hair. WOMEN, amIright??)

How exhilarating: going through a big move while the weather is changing for the better! (My move down here was October 2, 2021.) Historically speaking, I know a few of my big events have occurred between the span of my birthday and Mother's Day. In fact... let's take a quick peek at the highlights. 

Last May I started working on getting my new place / studio apartment - living on my own in the big... state... (Fuck ever living in New York City. Especially alone.)

2021 I reconnected (or, arguably connected in the first place) with my current partner ^.^

2020 I moved into an apartment with my best friend <3

2018 I left Southern Maine for Turner / Lewiston Maine 

2017 I had my last day at Marche (a place that no longer exists) and began my move to Southern Maine

2016 I left evil grandmother's house / got my mother her own / lived with her there
(bonus: this was my 27th birthday / my bday is the 27th so my friends and I ran off to stay on a houseboat in Florida for a little bit)

2015 I left North Conway, New Hampshire to return to Maine (living in Turner, working in Brunswick)

2014 I left (Auburn for work / Lewiston for living) Maine for North Conway, New Hampshire. 

...And if we're counting this one: May 2013 is when I finally got an instagram / my first post. 

All in late April, early May! So bizarre. I guess I never thought of it. Granted: other grand things have happened in plenty of other months in my life, but it is so interesting how the above all worked out. 

I wonder how much of it is simply how things turned out and how much of it is a deep craving for change, once spring comes along.