Returning Home

“The fullness of existence embodies an overwhelmingly intricate balance of defined, ill-defined, un-defined, moving, stopping, dancing, falling, singing, coughing, growling, dying, timeless and time-bound molecules — and the spaces in between.”

– Tom Robbins

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Yes, gentle readers, Momma has returned home.  (Not that I ever really left.  I just stopped writing for awhile.)  Being the Scorpio that I am, summer heat and stickiness gets me down.  (Surprisingly, however, rainy days and Mondays do not.  But then again, I’ve always been a big fan of food.  And if that makes any sense to you at all you win the prize for today.)

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Now that fall is arriving — slowly as I hear it is supposed to be in the 90′s again today — I am regaining that feeling of alive-ness and vital creativity.  In the course of my absence I have obtained gainful employment in the downtownal area of our fair city (though I decline to say exactly where for fear that the Gods of Corporate America might object to having a Chatty Hoochee Momma in their employ). 

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Though perhaps my current position isn’t the career path I would have chosen for myself (especially being as it is nearly as far as one can possibly get from the glam life of a World Famous Music Journalist) it is providing me a happy little life.  I am able to ride my bike to work (possibly fodder for written entries and photo entries to come) and over to Broadway for lunch every day.  (Deviled eggs at The City Market make a delicious — and cheap! — quick protein snack and are delightful eaten whilst relaxing out in front of Judy Bug’s Books, aka ‘The Livingroom of Downtown Columbus’.)

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The Hoochlings are back in school and doing just swell.  Sgt. Grumpy is officially retired from the Army and has also found gainful employment.  (He has obtained a position doing exactly the same thing as before only in different clothes and with more facial hair.)  And the Hoochee Family is settling back into a pattern of normalcy.  Weekends finally feel like weekends again and are filled as much as possible with the kind of music-and-food fun-and-frivolity that makes the Hoochee Family feel quite like itself.

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Just today I have discovered that I can access both this site and my photo sharing site from my computer at work and am thus able to update (albeit surreptitiously — which, btw, I spelled correctly on the first try) between bursts of corporate productivity during business hours.  Hallelujah!  Beans and greens and fried taters for everyone!

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More good news today — The Good Doctor will be providing musical entertainment before the movie at Screen On The Green this evening down by the Riverwalk on Bay Ave round about 6:00 (just in time for me to bike over after I get off of work).  This event is free and child-friendly.  (And the first opportunity for both The Hoochlings and Sgt. Grumpy to experience the groovy jazz-funk euphoria resulting in moving one’s booty to Good Doctor vibes.)

I hope to see you there.

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I leave you today with another Tom Robbins quote that I hold especially dear:

“To say that you can’t take life seriously and that life shouldn’t be taken seriously is not to say that life is trivial or frivolous. Quite the contrary. There’s nothing the least bit frivolous about the playful nature of the universe. Playfulness at a fully conscious level is extremely profound. In fact there is nothing more profound. Wit and playfulness are dreadfully serious transcendence of evil.”

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PS — As I do NOT have access to Facebook to post this as a link on the CHM fan page, feel free to take the onus upon yourself to link away.  I’d kind of like the world to know that I have returned like some short-skirt-wearing, iced-coffee-drinking, noodle-eating, wise-cracking, stupid-dancing herald of Changing Times.