7-21-11

Holy hand grenades, Batman! I deleted my blog in a moment of digital clean-up and regretted it almost immediately. I was just feeling overwhelmed by too much stuff going on in my life. BUT I realized that there is quite a bit of my life tied up in my blog, and that's really not a place I need to clear out. I've been blogging since 2008, and wow- that's a long time. Fortunately, Blogger allows for just such an emergency of regret by not really deleting your blog until 90 days after you tell them to delete it.

So please forgive me, sweet followers of my little blog.

So what have I been up to? To be honest- Mostly just glistening. My grandmother always said that ladies don't sweat, they glisten. Well, I sure have been doing an awful lot of glistening lately, since here in Virginia, the heat index is around 112. Not kidding. It is horribly hot. The temperature at this precise moment is about 99, but with the humidity, it's just plain hard to breathe out there and it feels about as hot as Satan's armpit! For those of you who live in hotter places, please accept my apologies for whining, and why DO you live in such a hot place, anyway? I'm serious when I tell y'all that I just melt when it's like this. My brain turns to tapioca, and all I want to do is lay around in the air conditioning. God knew what He was doing when he put me in this time period, because heaven knows I wouldn't have made it through the years past without this beautiful invention. I ♥ air conditioning, indeed!

Meanwhile, what else would I do when it's so horrifyingly hot that you could literally fry an egg on the sidewalk? I'd paint my kitchen. Yep. All that lovely 60's era teal is making way for a bright sunshiny (though cool because it's in the AC of course) yellow. My kitchen is terribly drab and dark, so I'm painting it a color called "Only Yesterday". It's the same color as my living room, which we just painted a few months ago. This would be why Spouse is so unwilling to help me on this project. The boy hates painting, and I can't say I blame him too much, but there is something absolutely beautiful about a freshly-painted wall, isn't there? I may post pics later, if I manage to actually finish the project all by myself.

We're also getting our oldest child ready to head to college in a few weeks. How does that happen? She was just a little thing, just yesterday. She'll be attending VCU (like her Mommy!), but she won't be living at home. The hour and a half (one-way) commute is a bit much for her, so she'll be living with my mother-in-law, who only lives 10 minutes from VCU. Of course, we have all the usual trepidations about her starting VCU, but I'm so happy for her! She'll be an art major at the #1 public art university in the US. How awesome is that? I knew she'd get in, even though she wasn't sure. Her father and I couldn't be prouder! I have made her a solemn promise that I won't crowd her, and I will do my best to pretend I don't know her unless she acknowledges me first. (Kidding, of course, but there was some worry on her part that I would act all goofy and expect her to always hang out with me on campus. She doesn't realize that would crimp MY style, not just hers.)

I'm anxious for my last semester at VCU to start so that I can be done done DONE with my Bachelor's degree. Spouse and I agreed that I'll take a little bit of time off before working on my Master's degree, and I am SO excited by the prospect of no longer having that long commute and finally having finished this first part of my journey.