Things that are fun:

1. Continuing to journal and blog about our recent road trip. I love going back over the pictures and remembering all the awesome things we did and saw. More blog posts to come!

2. Planning fun activities for the fall. On deck: lots of concerts and (hopefully) a backpacking trip in the Taum Sauk area.

3. Practicing new music, including stuff for an upcoming private concert and our quartet concert in November. Lots of Mozart, Beethoven, and Brahms right now.

4. Running and biking when the weather is this gorgeous! Since getting back we’ve been enjoying temperatures between 60 and 80 and have really gotten spoiled. I’m training for the Go Halloween Half Marathon on October 11 and this weather is really great for my running. And for biking: Saturday night we are riding in the Moonlight Ramble, which is a midnight race through the city. Louie and I went on a ride last weekend on the River Des Peres Greenway in order to “train.”

5. Seeing old friends. My best friend from childhood is/was in town this week and we got together for lunch the other day. I hadn’t seen her in…20 years? It was so much fun to meet her family and catch up.

I’m sure we look exactly the same now as we did back then 🙂

I decided to make this list because I was letting myself get overwhelmed with what I’m not doing…and focusing on the positive stuff really helps. The rest will fall into place as it always does (with patience and hard work behind it). And transitioning from vacation to work is always a challenge…my schedule is just free enough that I have time to be a little neurotic 😉