I’m exhausted, so this is going to be quick.

I spent the weekend in Bakersfield with family. It was truly lovely. Minus the part where my grandma took a Vicodin before dinner tonight and was then in rare form the rest of the evening. She snuck in comments about my older (perfect) sister’s shirt being a maternity shirt (she’s not pregnant), my younger (angstful teenage) sister’s hair color and told me that she wanted me, and especially me, to know she’d lost 17 pounds. It was bizarre. Also entertaining.

I have a week off. I’m so excited, I hardly know what to do with myself. The sad thing is, I’ll probably spend a chunk of it studying.

My cat is mad at me for spending the week at my sister’s house during exams. I suspect his anger will end at around 7 tomorrow morning when the hunger takes over all his brain functions.

I’m in desperate need of good moisturizers for my face and good lip balm for extremely chapped lips. In the year since I moved back to California my skin has been a wreck. It misses the moist New Orleans air like you wouldn’t believe. I’ve been using a neutrogena product (part of an acne prevention line) and when I ran out switched to clinique, but I’m not really happy with either. And my lips are so dry they’re cracked and bleeding. I could desperately use some suggestions here.

I made two cobblers (peach and blackberry) and cake balls this weekend. It’s ridiculous how much I still love baking. I’m making more cake balls for Slappy’s family later this week. I’m ready to up the ante and start really decorating them now, I think. We’ll see. It might be a total disaster.

I get to go to Utah on Thursday! My best friend from high school lives there, so I sent her an email and we’re going to have lunch. I haven’t seen her since my wedding, but she’s one of those people that you just want to spend every moment with. She’s genuine and loving and makes you feel like such a treasured friend. Not to mention her two adorable red headed kids. I really need her to live closer, but for now we’ll just enjoy this great opportunity. I’m equally excited about this conference, but the idea of just getting to sit and catch up with an old friend is delightful.

I had a massive headache all day. And about 5 minutes ago my face started tingling. I think that’s my body’s really subtle way of telling me that it’s way past time for me to go to sleep and end this day.

Happy Father’s Day and Happy Second Mother’s Day to all those moms who are both a mom and a dad for their kids. You’re so appreciated and so important.

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