Shopping in Tucson

I can't deny that the local weather makes me feel like its spring, but I know in my heart of hearts that freezing temps could descend at any moment. All that aside, I am mourning the lack of travel this year. Mr. Muzzy is in a play and the best I can do is 4 days in Tucson for the Gem and Mineral extravaganza that I have long heard about but never visited. I have my ticket and a place to stay, so there will be at least 4 days of warm weather and different vegetation, not to mention aisles and aisles of goodies to look over. Mr. Muzzy will be performing that weekend, so it is a "girl's time". I like it. And on the horizon is a trip to Mexico, Oaxaca to be exact, later this year. THEN....I am going back to Laos and Thailand next winter come hell or high water...don't know about the rest of you, but that is where I will be. And as for poor dear Bijoux, its been a rough sea these last 5 years, especially the last 2, but I feel a change coming. I'm hot on the trail of the "fish waffle" pan I saw in Chiang Mai in 2007, and having lost some weight I'll be dusting off my phasins, moving the hooks over, and trying to figure out how to sell kanom krok and fish waffles at the Farmer's Market. I have joined a writing group and have begun to realize just how awful my poor Haight Ashbury memoir really is, but it gives me something to do late at night and early in the morning when mortality and time weigh heavily on my soul. And re-inventing is right up my alley...does the world seem crazier to you all too or is it just me? Politics in the US are just right out of my realm now. I think I have given up and will concentrate on my karmic future.