Category Archives: Daily Life

Winter Weather

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Living here in balmy South Carolina, I can’t imagine what winter will look like for Jen & Co. It’s 41F right now, and we had our first freeze yesterday morning. Most days through the winter, highs will be in the 40s & 50s, and evening/morning lows will be in the 20s & 30s – and that’s about as bad as it gets. We will get at least one stretch of temps in the teens, and we might get a few days of snow (weekdays, preferably, so that we don’t waste a good snow day on a weekend please). The difference here is that an inch of snow will kill the city for days. In the frozen tundra that is Jen’s backyard, an inch of snow is nothing, and a foot of snow probably won’t disrupt school schedules.

I’d love to see it, live it out once sometime – but I’ll take the southeast, thanks much. I’ve got reason enough to coffee and hot chocolate and cozying up by the fire – without the blizzard that is January for our friends to the north.

Supposed to get up to 65F this afternoon. Brrrrr.

Travellin’

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It looks like Jen & Jon are vacationing – although I hope the were able to cross off more tasks than were updated in the post below. I’d hate to think of them going cross-country without packing, and I’d hate to think what the house would look like if the proper instructions weren’t left for the cat-sitters.

This is the time of year when I really start thinking about travel, too. When I was young, back in the day, we would pile into the car every Thanksgiving to drive over to my Memaw’s house, where we (my little brother and I) would sit at the kids table with the five other cousins to eat way too much turkey and dressing before going out to play on the lonely swingset in the backyard. Sometimes we’d play ball, or wait for Uncle Bill to show up and play a song for us. At Christmas time, we’d spend more time with the other side of the family. There wasn’t much driving either holiday until we moved to moved to South Carolina, but we did usually spend the day away from home visiting and being told “my how you’ve grown”.

Now, we usually have day trips to Asheville for my wife‘s side of the family, maybe a vacation weekend to the beach before the good restaurants close for winter, and then most of the other holiday festivities revolve around town, eating turkey leftovers and watching football – alot of turkey leftovers, alot of football.

All that to say: I hope they have a fabulous and relaxing time. Don’t forget my Christmas present.

My To-Do List

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-transfer cell phones to nationwide service
-pay bills
-get paycheck
-wash clothes in bathroom hamper
-PACK
-get pill boxes to sort meds
-get shopping done
-clean bedroom
-print out flight details
-write instructions for cat care person

Guest Blogging

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I’m heading to Seattle for a week and a half on Tuesday and I wanted to know if anyone wanted to guestblog for me while I’m gone. I had people do this in May and it was great. If you’re interested, contact me using the link on the left leave me a comment.

Wardrobe Malfunction

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The extra button on my Lands’ End cords broke and I called them to ask if they could send me a new one as I hadn’t been able to find one that was the proper size or color. (It’s a dark brown button — you’d think they’d sell them in fabric stores!) When the mail came today, there was an envelope from them with a plastic baggie full of dark brown buttons!

Reason #5890789 why I love Lands’ End…

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

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We’re going to do this out of order here.

The Bad
+Bush won.
+Bush won.
+Bush won.
+Bush won.
+Bush won.
+Bush won.
+Tom Daschle was defeated by an idiot who doesn’t give a rat’s butt about his state (i.e. has done nothing to get drought relief for South Dakota)

The Good
+Barak Obama unseated Alan Keyes.
+My state went for Kerry.
+My county went for Kerry (i.e. we did our part)
+Those stupid political ads are over.
+Ohio was a close one — pretty bad for a state that Bush used to visit monthly before the election.
+My supercool Congressman got re-elected.
+It wasn’t a landslide victory for Bush

The Ugly
+The attacks ads — I saw some of the worse ones because Minnesota is apparently a swing state. (The logic behind that please?)
+The state of our country in 4 years

Pretty Pink and Blue Thoughts

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I will not take my Klonopin and put myself in a world where everything is airy and life is pretty.  I will not take my Klonopin and pretend that Bush hasn’t (likely) won.  I will not take my Klonopin and go back to sleep, hoping to wake up and find out that Kerry has won.  I will not take my Klonopin and avoid this hellish day on which our idiot president was re-elected.  I will not take my Klonopin and pretend that there aren’t people stupid enough to vote for Bush.