I love spring.  Daffodils are my favorite flower, because they signal the beginnings of a new year of possibilities, and the end of a winter season that always last just a little too long.  So Mom e-mailed me the other day, and mentioned how the daffodils are blooming and spring has sprung down in Houston..

I look at the calendar. Here in the Springs, we are at least 2 months from Daffodils downtown , closer to 3 months at our house, and I daren't even think about what to plant in my outdoor flowerpots until at least Mother's Day.

Now, the trade-off is that I won't be drowning in my own sweat and dying from mosquito bites from May to October, and I get year round sunshine, much more than nearly every other sizable city in the country... so even the winter here is usually pretty nice.  So 95% of the year I know I've got the better deal.

But for the next week, as winter here gets old, and I long to put down my convertible's top (instead, I drove carefully through the icy streets to work this morning.), and I'm taunted by tales of springs appearance elsewhere, I'm just a little depressed by the brown grasses, and desperately seeking some sign of fresh spring-green shoots popping out of the mulch.

I've been chided for not having posted or blogged much lately.  Someone thought I wasn't active on Multiply, because most of the posts on my site are really old.

So I'm posting.  But I can't think of anything particularly interesting to post about.

I could rant on the marriage amendment passing, the civil partnership referendum losing, the overly conservative house rep (and I generally lean Republican) that my district voted in, or grumble about how slowly the process of turning a bunch of new-to-the-company, experienced, opinionated people into a unified team is going. Or how despite that (or because of the challenge?), I'm enjoying the new job and new state.  Or that I'm excited we'll get to see family and good friends we haven't seen in too long in just a week and a half... But beyond the cursory update, it's not really that interesting to anyone but me.

So, any good ideas out there on what I should blog about?