It's creative flood time. I never know when it's coming, which is half the fun. It just arrives, like a tsunami, sent by the universe to swallow me whole. I want to inhale books and buy flowers and write poems and paint masterpieces and dance and listen to new music and log ideas in notebooks and try new lipstick colors and cook amazing food and send compliments to my friends and paint a rainbow step stone path all the way up my staircase.

Flowers. Which, when you are a kid, and especially when you are a teenager, are very exciting.

Also ranking in exciting things: The weekend. A new jar of peanut butter. I played the G progression flawlessly on guitar today. The possibility of California getting rain (EL NIÑO!!!). Knowing Stephan for a year. HALLOWEEN??!! Writing remains my passion. Rachelle is bringing us cupcakes tomorrow. Sleep. I have somehow maintained an A+ in most of my classes. And the leaves are actually changing and falling this year??

And just when I start dropping terms like "snow" and "cold," as if California can't live up to rest of the country's performance during Fall and Winter, California must have gotten really mad. Like "I'll show you. You want to compare me to the snow? I'll have the last word."

And it did. California, with its kaleidoscope skies and salty waters, had the last word.

My phone won't let me add anymore pictures, so just imagine the kaleidoscope skies and salty waters.

We are a month into the school year, and I'm realizing I need to simmer down a little. Summer was full of days where we said yes to everything -- yes let's have another bonfire, yes let's go to cafés, yes let's go to street fairs. And then SCHOOL started and we're all tired and busy. Except, I resent it because I am adventurous and like to push myself by nature. I kind of feel like an overenthusiastic puppy. Jumping, panting, chasing my tail, looking for someone to play with. Hey, want to go to the park? Hey, want to go to the beach? Who wants to have a water balloon fight? Let's go! Let's see! Let's do! And I'm going to get sick, inevitably, if it continues. So yes, I'm trying to simmer down.

The earth must be shifting. Or Saturn is crossing over Jupiter or whatever it means in the planet world when things are miraculously out of the ordinary. I know this because I've kept up with my clothes for two. weeks. straight. I tried to pull something out of my closet the other day, and an entire pile of folded clothes came tumbling out. And that's actually okay, because HELLO, the clothes were folded, a feat always worthy of applause in this home. My clothes are all organized, and now that I've got this groove, I'm obsessed with not losing it.

This post is all over the place and keeps jumping away to other subjects, which is also how my mind works, so this seems like a good place to stop. Have a lovely weekend!