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Like most folks, I am ready for Spring, and I associate the month of March with this changing of the seasons, so lets go! Today showed true qualities of 50 degree weather and a nice thaw of the inches upon inches of snow here in Iowa City. The parking lot of my apartment remains, as I have described to a few folks, a lot like a disneyworld ride that seems to be on track, but you aren't quite sure it'll withstand the test of time and jostles you around alot. My poor shocks. I'm sure Bessie's gotten her fair share of the brunt of the parking lot's ill managed snow/ice removal. At least, now, she's parked across the street in the theater lot.

I haven't written in awhile because I"m suffering from another wonder of winter, that dreaded cold and flu season. Another good reason to wish for Spring thaw. Luckily in my case this second round (I was first sick for new years eve) is a cold...though weirdly I've spent the first three days of it alternating between a really hot neck (usually on me that translates into fever) and cold sweats..all which mostly meant lots and lots of goosebumps that dont want to go away. Today I've actually felt a bit better, and finally was able to tackle some household duties, including picking up all those tissues that didn't quite make it to the wastebasket in the last few days. I always hate having a whole day off from work or three for that matter, in which I do nothing but stay in bed. I feel so unproductive then. With this particular cold though, it's knocked me on my a** completely and even getting out of bed seems to take the energy right out of me. Anyways, enough about the complaining side.

Random Notes of Updates:

1. Janet Evanovich One for the Money - hilarious and finished. I've discovered audio books are my friends! Since I spend a good portion of my week driving in my car on various errands to and from work or to and from one job to another, I've actually been able to finish this book and Alexander McCall Smith's Finer Points of Sausage Dogs. Did I miss the gloriousness of audio books in high school where I could have been reading all those classics? Probably, but no time like the present to catch up...

2. Erik and I are going to Seattle for Spring Break to visit my friend pete (and mooch off him for a free place to stay for a week) Thanks to all of my friends who live cool places that I stay with...you guys rawk my world, especially on a three part time job budget :) :)

***Someday I hope to be able to repay the favor...any one heard about librarian prospects in the Bahamas? I was talking to my boss the other day and we both decided that cruise ships MUST have libraries where the patrons on the ship could check out materials, that way they don't have to haul books back and forth on planes, etc and who better to do collection development of trashy romance novels, or hard hitting exposes like me? Carnival...I'm telling I'm the right woman for the job. I don't get seasick, and we could have books insured on a "lost at sea" option, whereby if they accidentally go overboard, they could be replaced easily. I bet Amazon.com will ship to a number of ports like Nassau.

3. My brother's wedding in May. Erik and I will again be embarking on a plane flight for this one, out to California and the Palo Alto area. ;)

4. Earlier in May I'll be on a plane to Denver for ARLIS NA. yay for seeing and staying with fellow IU Art Librarianship kids! Love keeping those costs down. And for seeing other conference attendee friends and colleagues from last year. I will also be presenting this year (the first time at a conference...might as well make it the annual national one...so wish me luck...public speaking is not something I"m very good at --see previous posts heh) I'm helping with the Tech Kiosk, where members that know newer technologies (web 2.0 and the like) help teach other ARlis members how libraries can use the software in interesting ways. I'm doing facebook and rss readers. So if anybody has suggestions for inclusions in the discussion, don't hesitate to comment here or shoot me an email.

5. Alot of other weddings this summer! Actually Erik and I will only have 4 non-busy summer weekends left when the weddings and family reunions are over. :) Congrats to you all and I"m looking forward to them. Individual shout-outs etc will be closer to each wedding date!

6. Trying to spend less money on unnec. things. I've developed a very lovely bad habit of buying good movies when they are 10 dollars or less. Now that bluray appears to be winning the war, I'm sure they'll go down in price more, and I'll hold off for 5 dollars instead.

7. Erik's moving to Iowa City in August. With this comes squeezing in moving him out of Ames and into the IC area on some weekend...probably the weekend before my birthday, and of another of the weddings...hmm...

Allright that is all for now..there is rain outside (yay for not snow!) and I must get some rest, even posting has tired me out a bit.