September school holiday

Day 1 of the long-awaited September school holiday. While I have spent quite a bit of time on my laptop, today's actually been one filled with housework. Decided to do as much as I could today (and tomorrow), in order to enjoy the rest of the week. Having said as much, there's still quite a bit of school (college) work to do over the next few days, so this is more like a working holiday than anything else. Still, it's such a delicious feeling to wake up naturally, without an alarm, and to realise that, not only do you not have to go to work, but the sun's shining, the birds are chirping and it's starting to look like spring! Stretch.... lie in a bit longer.... relish the freedom!

We've had a lot of rain, recently, with snow capping our nearby mountains. There was even snow on Table Mountain, on two occasions! Very unusual. Driving around our suburbs yesterday, every now and then I'd catch a glimpse of the snow-capped mountains and just smile - it's quite surreal.

My landlord had the gardener around recently, so the garden's looking cleaned up and 'nice'. I haven't had much time to be in the garden, but I love seeing things I planted long ago starting to flower again. Basically, I just love plants that take care of themselves. Like clivia - oh my goodness, don't they make a pretty picture!
I used to have a lot of impatiens (the perfect plant for me!), but there's nothing left. The last time I looked for some at the nursery, they were sold out. Other lazy gardeners must've got there before me. :-)

On Wednesday I have an exciting day - finalising my first-ever song video! Haven't thought beyond a certain point yet (typical!), but I'm sure it's got a lot of potential for me, a somewhat reluctant artist who loves performing, but can't seem to get her material released.  And don't talk about copyrighting! OH, I could kick my butt, the way I've been dragging my feet in that department. I think I just need someone to manage my music career for me. I'll write songs and perform, and you do the other stuff. Yes - now there's a plan. Any takers?

So, with my little afternoon blog moment done, it's back to the To Do list. Tick. Tick. Tick.