Let me begin by apologizing for my blog absences recently – new contracts coupled with technical issues made for a crazy week but I’m BACK and have been wanting to write this for awhile now…

Life’s too short people. It sounds so cliche until there’s a loss or an unexpected change and everything gets so unpredictably mixed up. It makes you re-evaluate your priorities, and question your own choices and decisions. It gives you a reality check (or a swift kick in the behind).

I have all these “special” things I save for a “special occasion” – I have a drawer under my bathroom sink filled with fancy shower gels, lotions, and expensive bars of soap I’ve received as gifts and stashed away for… I don’t know what. I have these beautiful towels hidden in storage that I’m saving. I have this expensive little sachet of vanilla biscotti coffee tucked away in my pantry for “another time.”

Why?

What am I waiting for? For the queen to come and take a bath at my apartment? To make coffee for Leonard Cohen when he hears about my writing and shows up on my doorstep because he just had to meet me?! So that’s it – I’ve gathered all the goodies I’ve been “saving” and have vowed to USE THEM UP! My shower this morning was especially enjoyable as I dried off with the plush softness of my “new” towel, and my skin smells like sweet grapefruit after using a la-dee-da shower gel/lotion set that was gathering actual dust in my bathroom. I think I’ll start tomorrow with a freshly-brewed cup of vanilla biscotti Joe.

What are you saving for a rainy day? Because I think the weather forecast is calling for precipitation…