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Mac is enjoying the lovely pre-spring weather. Its the first time I’ve had my bedroom window open since I moved. The weather is really glorious today, in the low 70’s with a mix of sun and clouds. But I’m not thinking this is a real start of spring or anything. Spring isn’t for another twelve days or so and the forecast has us back down in the 30’s for highs by Monday. But its still a nice preview of things to come, especially after the wonderful weather we had in NOLA.

The nice weather did help motivate me to reorganize my stash of stuff in the garage and basement space. I opened up the garage door and took in the lovely fresh air as I assembled a new shelf unit and rearranged all my plastic containers. The reorganization left me with a lot of empty cardboard boxes, so I treated myself and went and recycled them all. How I love recycling. I also went downtown Iowa City to finally get a library card and I walked around to a used bookstore and grabbed a bagel from Bruegger’s. On the way there and back, everywhere I looked people were out enjoying the lovely Saturday weather. Many dogs were being walked, many joggers enjoying not being bundled like eskimos, lots and lots of convertible tops down and motorcycles getting gased up, and I even saw a group of four adults standing in a circle in a grassy space helping a little girl learn to walk by going back and forth between them, very cute.

Its a rather quiet weekend that I am enjoying. Watched Iowa win last night and this afternoon in the Big Ten Conference tournament. I’ll be watching the final tomorrow. Go Hawks. May get to a movie or two this evening with D and possibly Carly. I’d like to see Failure to Launch and Sixteen Blocks. Still need to finish my post-Oscars post. Not that any of you care anymore, but I still need to empty the 2005 cinema thoughts from my head before I get too far into 2006. I’m also working on knitting again as I simply must finish this baby blanket before the baby it is intended for turns one…

Hope the weather is lovely wherever you are today.