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I'm actually not a big fan of April Fools' Day. It's like I'm on edge the entire day. Always watching for some crazy thing to hap-- WHERE DID THAT ANVIL COME FROM

Always watching. Good, I'm out of range in case he points that water hose at me. Always vigilant. Okay, Google's site preview shows the site is fine. Always two steps ahead. I saw that shadow from behind the door, you can come out now. 

In the end, however... always paranoid.

The best April Fools' Joke: Legitimately release something totally awesome at midnight. Watch as people squirm for 24 hours, possibly more. That just sounds amazing... and totally better than what I'm doing.

Take a guess at what I haven't been doing lately! (hint: the answer is anything involving other people)

Cooking? What is this madness

I think my parents' cooking has convinced me to learn how to cook for myself.

I've been away from home a lot for the past few years. First it was two years of giftie school, now I've been at college for almost a year. Before that, I was homeschooled, from K-10th grade. And all that time I ate home-cooked food. I didn't even realize how good I had it, because it was just "normal."

Then I went away to high school in my junior year. I mostly ate cafeteria food. Apparently the cafeteria food at my school was better than most, but I didn't really notice, because I had grown up on essentially ambrosia. My parents' food was my cafeteria food. And, of course, then I began to miss it.

I suppose it's rather normal to miss home cooking, but there's a little more to it. We live in the south, where many people are known for their cooking. And even though none of my family is really "from" the south, apparently my parents cook really well even by others' standards. So, really, I've had it made all this time, and then I left for school...

In high school I didn't really have much of an opportunity to eat whatever I wanted. My only real option was the cafeteria. Now I'm in college, and I have plenty of options. The cafeteria here is slightly better, and there's plenty of restaurants that accept my meal plan. So I've been eating out a lot, which is better than before, but it's still nothing like home.

I'll be living off-campus after this quarter, so I figured why not learn how to cook? I'll be flipping back and forth between college and home over the summer (probably), so I'll have a few opportunities to learn the secrets from my parents while I'm home, and then when I'm away I'll practice them. Then I won't have to miss my parents' cooking, because I'll be cooking it myself!

I think the best part about this will be inviting other people to eat. I don't know why, I just get that feeling.

How did you come across your current universal avatar?

Near the bottom of this page, after I first discovered the site and flipped through random pages for hours on end.

I really don't know what to say about this other than listen to it right now.

"Wooo I finally got around to updating my blog! I've got so many ideas for posts that I can write over the next few days! Maybe if I'm lucky I can write some in advance and queue them up so I don't have to worry about it!"

~two days later~

NOPE, I haven't done anything. This is why we can't have nice things.