I've been watching the New Year's Eve prep in Times Square over web cams, and it's in the teens and twenties there. All the workmen are waddling around in puffy suits. I hope the performers are allowed to wear something warm tomorrow night.
The King of Cups expects a picnic. But this is not his birthday!
Drusilla ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Natter 75: More Than a Million Natters Served
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Connie Neil - Dec 30, 2017 10:34:16 am PST #20442 of 30002
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Pix - Dec 30, 2017 10:48:26 am PST #20443 of 30002
The status is NOT quo.
It's amazing to me how much we acclimate to new climates. I definitely have very different reactions and feelings about heat and cold than I did all those years in New England. And my dad, who's lived in Florida the past five years, after a lifetime living in New England, now gets cold when it goes below 70.
shrift - Dec 30, 2017 10:48:59 am PST #20444 of 30002
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
I hope meara is getting out of Indiana today. My mom says they were supposed to get another 4-6 inches of snow in Michigan today.
I'm back in California, but I started feeling bad on the plane and I definitely have a cold. At least I can take a walk in the sunshine to buy more cold medicine this afternoon?
Jesse - Dec 30, 2017 11:00:11 am PST #20445 of 30002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Oh wait, you know who I REALLY felt bad for in the airport? The Buddhist monks. One of them at least had socks on, but the other did not! Yikes.
Theodosia - Dec 30, 2017 11:27:08 am PST #20446 of 30002
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Going in one week from 70F to 3F is damn hard, but then a Canadian friend just reported -37C, so I am less inclined to bitch. much.
meara - Dec 30, 2017 12:49:36 pm PST #20447 of 30002
I did get out of Indiana today! Last night was bad but this morning most of the roads were fairly clear—go snowplows and salt! And now I have finally landed back in Seattle where it is a much more normal 47 degrees.
-t - Dec 30, 2017 3:05:17 pm PST #20448 of 30002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Yay meara getting home!
I got some weeding done. I couldn't find my pokey thing so I had to run to the hardware store for a new one and also got something like a wee pickaxe with a fork on one side and that thing is the bomb diggety for both thistles and bunch grass. Lots more left to pull, of course, but I am energized for an earlier start tomorrow.
I think it might be time for wine.
Jesse - Dec 30, 2017 3:06:44 pm PST #20449 of 30002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
At the supermarket earlier, I bought some corn nuts, which turned out to be dinner, I guess. Oops.
WindSparrow - Dec 30, 2017 4:42:55 pm PST #20450 of 30002
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
We are appraching the part of winter in which I am grateful for any temperature above 0 rathe more rapidly than I had hoped.
Laura - Dec 30, 2017 4:59:04 pm PST #20451 of 30002
Our wings are not tired.
This is the first day in somewhere around forever that I did zero work. I have had the fire crackling video on the big screen tv with Jazz for background noise and just sat reading. Freezer to microwave dinner, wine. And actually finishing a book. I went outside for a few minutes to enjoy the sunset, in my inside clothes. I may do this again tomorrow!