*snerfle*

I can't tell if it's just spring allergies or a full-fledged cold, but my nose and ears are stopped up with goop. This has been going on for several days and I'm about ready for it to be over, say, yesterday.

In happier news, the shop is doing fairly well, some snazzy new supplies just came in today, and it sounds like Captain Midnight and Miss V had a good time at the Girl Scout encampment this weekend (CM went along to be a camp cook). And we are trying out some fat-free fudge brownie mix to see how it tastes...

This stuff, to be precise. It's smelling pretty good. I'm sure all the vanilla paste I added didn't hurt, either.

Live! (or at least Undead!) from Utah

Has it really been over a month? Yes, yes it has. In that time I have been a complete social reject who has been puttering about on Etsy (and now Bookins), posting hasty scribbles on Twitter, and doing very little else. In fact it apparently takes a trip to another state to get me to write here.

So yes, I am once again in the Land of Dry Heat, although it's supposed to be very pleasant and springlike this weekend. We shall see.

But what are you doing there? I hear you cry. And why did you shutter your Etsy store? That is no fun at all! Well, true, but I can't very well sell my wares from three states away. Besides, I'll be back on Monday and cosmic fun palacial goodness shall then resume.

I am here because my youngest sister, Miss V's mom, is graduating from college. I am tremendously proud of her for sticking to it. She's had a lot of irons in the fire, what with work and school and single motherhood and so forth, and I suspect a lot of other people would have given up work on a bachelor's degree long since. She persevered. It hasn't always been easy and she's often lived hand to mouth, but she did it. Her convocation is on Friday.

Incidentally, this event will also make me the only one of my siblings who has not yet graduated from college. That's because I am a dork. Actually, the problem is that the first time around I was a dork and never went to classes and didn't bother to withdraw and wasted a lot of other people's money and so forth, and the second time around I did very well but I didn't have enough money to take a full load of classes. Going to school is possible when one obtains the rare blessed convergence of having both the time and the money; generally speaking, when I have one, I don't have the other. Maybe it's time to look into a few distance education classes again, although in the past I've found those have not ended well. (Procrastination. It's a killer.)

I had best go to bed. More later.