OK, so, this week, I:

• flew by all by myself for the first (and second) time ever. And didn’t ask to hold the hand of the passenger next to me whenever we hit turbulence. 
• threw a shower for the pretty lady above, along with her extremely capable sister, my mom, and our childhood friend, Cassi.
• ate my weight in my dad’s chicken, biscuits, and famed twice-baked potatoes (then lay on the floor in front of a movie with my mom, an unsurprising result).
• met up with two college chums on a beautiful, blossomy Tallahassee day (including one on tumblr, the notorious Shelby), then, in a bold and unintroverted move, Mardi Gras’d it up with Haley, despite her sleepy first trimester, and her sweet little family and friends (and baby chicks! also important!)
• came home to Amherst, cleaned up cat vomit, broke up dog scuffles, did three loads of laundry, and slogged across town to move back into our oft-flooding apartment

Spring break, hmm. I could now skip straight through the New England early spring mud.