It's Thursday... a week ago today I was having a falafel lunch with Maria in Detroit and the sun was shining. How often do I wish Connecticut and Michigan were closer together? Only about 500 times a week. But there's the little matter of those buffer states. (I originally wrote bugger states, which almost seems more appropriate.)

The sun is shining today, too. Spring came really quick once it decided to come. The cherry blossoms are open and dogwoods are starting to bloom. The tulips are in full swing. Just about all the trees have leaves now. It is really beautiful, as it always is here in the spring. But we have been having strange weather. Yesterday and today the high has been in the high 80s. It really does feel like mid-summer. Almost too hot to go outside.

So I had a baked potato for lunch, followed by a scoop of Baskin Robbins rocky road ice cream. (And yes, in case you were wondering I am still going to the gym at least three days a week. But no, I'm not exactly dieting.)