It's Spring.

[ship_go_boom]

Which around here, means mud up to our ears. Actually, it could have been called Spring a couple of weeks ago, but I decided to wait on the official declaration until I transitioned from the Long-Tailed Hat of Warmth to the Floppy Hat of Doom. This transition was delayed somewhat by being sick with various ailments for the past... oh, call it two and a half weeks, making me a bit more inclined to warm fuzziness, clothing-wise. Multiple ailments, mind. Started with a wisdom tooth (which then mysteriously stopped growing again), continued with an extended upset-stomach disease, and then on to the weird eye-infection-type thing and the full-body cough, which I'm almost recovered from, just some residual congestion and a really sore (to the point of being legitimately referable to as painful) chest from all the coughing (mostly muscular, with a hair of shredded bronchial passages for good measure). There, now. Don't you feel healthier already? Sometimes I wonder if I even have an immune system.

Where did this post start out? Oh, right. Spring. It''s been raining. Which means that the grass is greening up, which means that I'll soon have to rake up the willow branches that have strewn themselves all across the yard over the winter, so then I can mow the previously mentioned grass. Yech. But It's too muddy yet, so I'll just enjoy the rain.

I have good things to read while I'm doing that, too. I just (finally!) started in on rahirah's A Raising In the Sun this afternoon (enjoying it quite a bit so far), I have a nice little pile of graphic novels and such from the library, and I just put away a pile of comics on Friday that I've resolved to read soon. Somehow my comics-reading has gone on hiatus for about a year now (and most of them hadn't been put truly away for longer, it was quite intimidating on the bag-and-box front. Bad comics care, I know), so I've got my work cut out for me. *sigh* Happiness is a pile of unread comic books.