april showers

We spent the weekend in Minnesota where it snowed.  All weekend.  Happy Birthday, Mom, here's a bucketload of snow and some lovely January worthy temperatures.  As the whole midwest has been complaining, it has been a dismal spring.  Last year at this time my crabapple trees were in beautiful full bloom and all the leaves were out.  Today it drizzled and was 38 degrees.  Seriously April 15th?  Last night when we returned to Dubuque, however, it was 70.  We experienced a 40 degree temperature change over 250 miles.  That threw me out of whack!  I was dizzy from the pressure change but after a weekend of snow, it was welcome.

These are my trees last year at this time.  If not a few weeks earlier.

I had a very negative week last week.  I started about 4 blog posts and deleted them out of frustration.  I didn't get into the graduate program that I applied to and felt very unwanted because of it.  I spent the weekend at home trying to rise above my funk through shopping and chocolate chip cookies.  Let me tell you, it worked.  There are many grad programs that I can apply to for the next year.  And the one that rejected me would have been a pain anyway with the two hour drive once a week.

Adorned with my new attitude, I kicked bum at the grocery store today and got a week's worth of food for 65$ [boom].  Then made kick bum fajitas [boom].  Then cleaned all the floors and kitchen cabinets [seriously, boom].  The following are the reasons why I love cleaning the floors:

1. I love when the carpet is all going the right direction before it gets mussed up by a certain pit bull.
2. I love watching homeland security [Lady, the aforementioned pit bull] try to decide how to deal with the vacuum and swiffer.  They're frightening.  Tonight she ended up hiding behind Justin on the couch with her poor little ears back.
3. I love, LOVEEE the way it smells in the house when the floors are clean.

Also today I got my Kohl's card in the mail.  It is evidence that some people just need to retire.  My first name and middle initial is repeated on it about 4 times before they put my last name [Megan M Megan M Megan M].  Who even sent that out?  Obviously that cannot possibly be my name!  Plus my address is jacked up.  It's a miracle the card got to me in the first place.  So that's something exciting I get to work on tomorrow...

Happy Monday.  Bring it on week.  Also Universe, please can I have some blossoms?