8 degrees sounds positively balmy to me right now.
Happy New Year!
I don't know about you guys, but I've had it with super-strong little women who aren't me.
Buffy ,'Get It Done'
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.
WindSparrow - Jan 01, 2018 5:51:32 am PST #20527 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.
Hil R. - Jan 01, 2018 6:11:09 am PST #20528 of 30002
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I need to clean my apartment some, but a lot of what I need to do is bring stuff out to the trash and recycling containers outside, and outside is just not going to happen when it's three degrees out.
Calli - Jan 01, 2018 6:35:25 am PST #20529 of 30002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Happy new year! Today's big task is getting the tree un-decorated and put away. No idea what the temps are outside, but I won't be there for long today. It's sunny. I foresee a nap in a sunbeam for me this afternoon. (2018 resolution—adopt as many of my cat's good ideas as possible.)
Sue - Jan 01, 2018 7:46:11 am PST #20530 of 30002
hip deep in pie
I am also getting the tree undecorated and having my semi-annual, "Oh my god! I have too many ornaments! I have to stop buying ornaments!" freak out.
msbelle - Jan 01, 2018 7:49:47 am PST #20531 of 30002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I am leaving my tree up until at least mid month.
Well, my tv just went out. Nothing else did and a breaker is not tripped. I am going to check the plug it is in, but GD if it is blown. I don't think the tv is even 2 years old.
Zenkitty - Jan 01, 2018 8:02:02 am PST #20532 of 30002
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
The tree stays up until Epiphany. I'm not Catholic, I just like the tree. Mine isn't even decorated, except for a string of tinsel. It's got fiber-optic lights in its branches, so it twinkles in colors.
Solidarity, msbelle, I also am doing work-work today. Because if I don't, tomorrow will be a manic panic that isn't pretty. Our print schedules don't take holidays or weekends into account.
Jesse - Jan 01, 2018 8:15:01 am PST #20533 of 30002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I am also keeping the tree up until Epiphany.
I made the bread. It was the right call. It was easy, the house smells delicious, and I get to have happy thoughts of ita to help me ring in the new year.
That sounds like an excellent call.
I had a delightful evening and morning with Polgara and family including an amazing ride home (amazing because I didn't have to take the train), and am going to another party shortly with my mother.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 01, 2018 8:40:47 am PST #20534 of 30002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I just helped a neighbor move his gigantic 85 lb. speakers up two flights of narrow stairs. Ended up panting, dizzy, and headache-y afterwards. Getting heavy stuff up to our floor sure seemed easier when I was 38!
SuziQ - Jan 01, 2018 8:53:46 am PST #20535 of 30002
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
Today I have cleaned the living room and kitchen, made a shipping list for cookie making, and then hit the store. Now I'm home with a heating pad and thinning ill be lucky to get one batch of cookies rather than the 4 I had planned on. I have baked zero cookies this holiday season which is NOT ON!
Dana - Jan 01, 2018 9:27:34 am PST #20536 of 30002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
We went out to brunch, even though it is 25 degrees outside. When we got home, our charmingly idiosyncratic thermostat had decided not to work, and it was 56 degrees inside. I am now under three blankets, with a heating pad on my back, while waiting for it to warm up. Winter is such bullshirt.