SNOW Boating

I’ve heard of show-boating, but I’ve never experienced SNOW-boating until just now. As I write, I am sitting on our boat on the Occoquan River in Woodbridge, Virginia (about 20 miles outside of D.C.) and, yes, the docks are covered with SNOW!!!!!!!!!!! The boat is a toasty 70 degrees (actually had to turn down the heaters because 75 was roasting us).  Not sure how I’m going to feel about going up to the marina showers tomorrow, but, for now, I can say that snow-boating is priceless. I never imagined in a million years that I would be boating in February (at least in this area). Until this year, I had to throw temper tantrums to get the boat commissioned by my mid-April birthday. I guess things have a way of working out. Last February, my husband was in combat. This February, my husband is here, on our boat, in the snow, with me. NICE…

P.S. I’m not running away from my life in NJ…just down here for a JOB INTERVIEW that happens to be tomorrow! Can you cross your fingers and still blog?

Like I said, toys…

What do you mean, INTENSE?

     I mean not doing anything half way. I mean riding a Harley Davidson instead of instead of being a passenger. I mean buying a truck with a crew cab AND a long bed, because it’s the biggest truck on the lot–and bigger than I’ll ever need. I mean making a hobby and obsession: like reading. I don’t read books, I consume books. Book after book after book after book, I buy, read, recommend. I mean being a collector rather than a casual consumer: Vera Bradley loves me and Harley Davidson’s line of motorclothes and accessories could open up shop in my house! I mean laughing to the point of crying and crying to the point of passing out. I mean deep, silent reflection instead of thinking. Imean formulating plans that cannot be foiled by Zeus himself. I mean being spontaneous enough to run away and, say, live on a boat! I mean loving so hard and living so much that not even death is a frightening concept. Not diasterous, not reckless abandon, not quite. INTENSE. Oh, and liberating, sometimes.