I think I’ll have a cup of tea

The funny thing about summer in Seattle is that it’s so fickle it’s hard to plan anything. Then you have one gorgeous week in early September where it’s all sunshine and 80-degree-days and you think I could get used to this!

But the clouds come back pretty fast and it’s time to start getting cozy – making tea and listening to KEXP and coming up with excuses not to leave the house. But just as you start contemplating a walk to the drugstore for new shampoo, it starts to rain. What? It’s raining?! you think. And then you remember that you are in Seattle. Of course.

This pretty much sums up my Saturday morning. I could spend the whole day wandering around my pocket-sized apartment in my pajamas when the weather is like this. I made some English Breakfast tea in my Auntie Em mug and tuned into KEXP’s all-Jamaican music show Positive Vibrations. I called my little brother (he’s coming to visit!) and received a “Good morning, Lady :-)” text message that made me :-D.

Then Kid Hops, the DJ for Positive Vibrations, said exactly what I was thinking, on air: “I see weather and clouds like this and i just want to keep it slow and deep like this.”

(This is what “slow and deep” sounds like, if you were wondering…)

It’s all part of the formula that lessens the urge to cry, or move to California, when summer goes away. To be a successful Seattleite, one must have an appreciation for the Gray.

By the way, I’m sorry I haven’t been around much lately. I’m starting to understand that writing is an activity that tends to flourish in a solitary lifestyle. The last few weeks have been anything but solitary: I spent two weeks looking after three cats, nine days with my mom as a houseguest and I’ve actually been dating someone (hence all the emoticons.)

But I still can’t seem to kick this blogging habit…