Spring is here, life is skittles and life is beer

Really. The snow is almost entirely gone, except in really shady spots and parking lot corners where it was plowed into 4-foot high lumps. For the past two days, we've had weather in the 60's (about 15°C, for my numerous European fans :D); today, people were driving around with their car windows open. Just ridiculous.

I've got to go hit up the library, or else unpack all the rest of the books, because I can't find anything I want to read in this house! (Or maybe one of you just won the lottery, and will go over to my Amazon.com wish list and send everything on it to me by overnight-mail. Yeah.)

So far this week: took 7 pet afghans over to an animal shelter in Howard County (see http://www.h4ha.org/snuggles). Sent scarf, completed nearly 2 weeks ago, off to landley today. Watched electrical work get completed in kitchen and bathroom. ( of interest only to people who like to meddle with their houses )

Random musings

1. I've had actual visible grey hairs at my temples for about a month now. I know no one else my age is going to feel at all sympathetic. I still feel like whining about it, though.
2. There really isn't any way to clean up a mess of cords from computers to the wall outlet if the computers are laptops which are sitting on a dining table in the center of the dining room.
3. Lately I have been feeling an odd sort of pride in how much stuff I don't care about. Like curtains. Why bother? It strikes me that this is probably really monumental laziness.
4. The only way to *really* have enough counter space in a kitchen is to have a continuously renewing counter; I'm not clear on the details of what happens to the old counters as it produces new counter space for the next step in one's preparations.