I think I’m going through some weird obsessive phase lately. The other day I cleaned up all of my memorable entries on livejournal. When I started reading a book, I can’t stop until I’m finished, and if I have to go stop and sleep, I get right back to what I was doing as soon as I’m up. Now I’m working on going through my favorites. That probably doesn’t sound like much, except I have a vast number of websites bookmarked. Some of them I can’t even remember why I bookmarked them. I must have had some reason for doing so at the time.

I found some cute stuff in my “stores” bookmarks. I had some wedding dresses favorited, and I guess I can understand why. There was one with this corset top and flowing skirt that was really pretty. I’m pretty sure that I was going to use it as a reference picture for one of my stories. Which story, though, I’m not exactly sure.

I still have a lot of stuff to go through, but I guess it’s necessary. There’s no sense in letting a bunch of junk pile up, computer or not. I really need to find a job, though. This crazy obsessiveness is, well, crazy.

This weather is still crazy. Today it was in the 80s and seemed fairly nice. Now, I’m not sure if it’s cooled down any, but the sun is long gone and all I can hear in the distance is the rumbling of thunder. My grandma said they mentioned something about tornadoes on the news. That’s certainly not something I want to hear. But I guess it’s something I should be used to with Indiana weather. I’m just not used to not being sure if it’s okay to start buying sandbox and pool toys for my niece or if I should be preparing for the end of the world. Not that there’s much I could do to prepare for it anyway.

Aside from the crazy weather, I’ve delved back into reading. I’ve missed it quite a bit in the last few years. I used to always read, but like with so many other things real life got in the way and everything else fell to the wayside. I just finished reading That Summer by Sarah Dessen. Earlier this week I read another of her books, her newest one, Lock and Key. I’ve got a couple more of her books that I bought a while back that I’m planning on getting into next. I just feel better when I’m reading. I don’t know what it is. Maybe it’s just that it requiring using your brain, when so much else in life doesn’t take much effort at all. Either way, I’m glad to be reading again. I feel like I’m connecting the person I am now with the person that I used to be.

I am going to make a new layout for this website. That’s what I’m going to do today because it’s been way to long since I made a new one. I may even upgrade WordPress, and possibly do a hostee clean up. I don’t have too many hostees on this domain, but the ones I do seem to have disappeared, and I can’t see much point in wasting space.

So the weather has been insane lately. One day it’s hot and humid, and it makes me want to grab my swimsuit and head for the pool, which should be an indication of how ick it really is, and the next it’s dark and dreary and cold and I just feel like crawling back into bed five minutes after I woke up.

Something’s got to give here. This is just crazy if you ask me. I know it’s still spring, not officially summer, but by this point the weather is usually pretty steady. The only thing that’s steady about the weather these days is that it’s unpredictable.

Graduation was last night. Things went well. It was a bit of a snooze with all of the speeches, but I guess that’s just part of it. I was basically starving through the whole thing. I had to be there by six, so I didn’t have time to eat before. But afterwards, I went to eat at IHOP with my grandparents and Allyson, Mitch and Tori. By then I think I was so hungry that I just got filled up really fast. Then I came home, watched some TV and laid around. My back has kind of been bothering me. I’m not sure what the problem is.

Then we got a phone call at about four this morning. My grandpa’s sister, Margaret, died. She hadn’t been doing too well for a while, so it really wasn’t unexpected, but it still sucks. The sad thing is that just yesterday morning my grandparents went to a funeral for their niece. If it’s true what they say about death coming in three’s, then I feel like I need to go get a life insurance quote stat because it’s just as expensive to die as it is to live, which is just really pathetic when you look at it that way.

Anyway, tomorrow we’re having a small get together to celebrate graduation. I invited 5 of the girls from my classes. I couldn’t find one of them on MySpace, so I feel really bad about that, but I might just try sending her an email instead, if I can find her email address.

So I have a shopping list to write, so I better get on that now.

Since Mother’s Day was Sunday, which I didn’t really start to realize until a few days before, I decided to cook dinner for my mom and grandma. Naturally, that brings the rest of the family into the mix. Per Grandma’s request, I made manicotti and dirt pudding. Grandma took it upon herself to make 7 layer salad as well. I planned on making it, but I figured it was just better to let her do it since she’d probably hover if I didn’t.

I bought mom a Garth Brooks CD that came with 2 discs and a dvd. We watched the dvd, which was great for laughs while the kids argued over the use of the desktop and laptop. My brother tried to get me to let him use my computer, but I’ve deemed it off limits.

Mom, Bart and Blaine stayed out here until after nine. We dug out the old family videos, which was great for laughs. There were lots of questionable fashion statements. It was nice, though.

Now this Saturday is my open house, so we’ll probably be spending several days cleaning and cooking to prepare for that. Is there no rest in all this madness? I say not.