Bloggity McBloggin'

Phew. I haven't updated in a month, because obviously: I'm committed to finishing things I start. I'm at home for about two days before I embark on the adventure of being program director for Camp of the Rising Son. It's going to be weird, for the first time having to wrangle staff into shape instead of kids....they're going to do fabulously though, I know it. While I'm at home, mostly I plan on becoming a comatose vegetable partaking of these two things with my mother:

But seriously though, Real Simple is wonderful. I shouldn't have to explain this to you. So it follows that their wedding magazine is the holy grail of wedding magazines. No, but really. Also this weekend I need to finish reading this:

It's a tasty treat for my brain. I had no idea how anti-interview Flannery O'Connor was, until I started reading this-she absolutely baffles interviewers who want her to elaborate on her own work. She is curt, to the point, and even a little rude sometimes. Somehow, it alll makes sense,I couldn't imagine her acting any other way in an interview. Thanks Daniel, you're good at giving presents.

My mother is going through clothes right now, which she should be given a gold medal for because she hates doing it so much. BUT we found this jewel that I immediately snatched for myself:

I remember attending this festival with my family when I was really little. All that really sticks in my mind was sitting in something that felt like a parking garage and listening to a group of people play their dulcimers. Then we sat in the sun for a little while before walking to the car. Funny, what our minds choose to remember. Anyhooooo, here is a little visual of how I'll be spending my summer: