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It’s finally a beautiful day here.Â? It’s above freezing (it was near 0 F on Thursday), I got to sleep in, and Finian is bringing his catnip mouse collection up to me.Â? He is such a good prey-catching cat.

Daniel (the creature inside of me) has starting kicking HARD.Â? I wake up in the middle of the night and it feels like parts of my stomach are numb.Â? I’m not entirely used to it so it makes me jump when he goes into soccer-mode.Â? The funniest part was one of my guys at work talking to my tummy in Spanish and telling Daniel to stop kicking.

Lent

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As I was watching the snow fall like powdered sugar this morning, I had just one thought in mind:

WHEN IS THIS FREAKING WINTER GOING TO END?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

I’m becoming like Edda the Puss when it comes to snow.Â? I don’t like it!!!!Â? Make it go away!!!!

So today is Ash Wednesday which is the first day of Lent.Â? (Easter is around Tax Day again.Â? Yes, I’m positively happy that Jesus paid my Death Tax for me.)Â? It’s a meatless day for me which is a royal pain because I’m hellishly depressed and not feeling like eating… and the only things I have the house that fit this have meat in them.Â? Crap!Â? I’m also giving up swearing which means 4-lettered words mostly.Â? (I’m keeping the precursors though.)

I should theoretically go to church tonight.Â? Then again, I should do a lot of things.Â? For example, I should have gone to work today; but called in sick after crying for a good two hours at the thought of having to go deal with people.Â? The thought of going to church tonight is making me similarly upset.Â? Not that I hate everyone — I’m just having “one of those days weeks”.Â? I’m grateful to have a boss who understands but I still feel guilty.

Musings

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[+] After about two weeks of nice Chinook winds, we got a few inches of snow Friday and yesterday.Â? The roads are fine — it’s just WHITE outside because it’s also cloudy.Â? Edda is just confused beyond all get out.Â? Black cats just don’t understand white very well.

[+] I might have to make it one of my Lenten disciplines to actually GO to church — I’ve missed more than I’ve attended this year because I’ve been sick or incredibly tired (more the later).Â? I’ve made it on Communion Sundays and to the annual meeting but that seems like all.Â? This morning (for example), I woke up tired and stuffy so I just drove my coffeehour stuff over to church, left a note, and came home to take Sudafed and go back to sleep.Â? I know… I’m just taking care of myself and of little Daniel inside of me but I *should* be making a better effort to keep the Sabbath.

[+] My mommy is home from Paris after 3 weeks there.Â? This is a GOOD THING.Â? I did get to talk to her weekly but I’ve missed having her one time zone away.

[+] I’m reading Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year in Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver and it’s excellent.Â? (Then again, all of her non-fiction is good and I’d heard pretty much the gist of the book on an episode of Speaking of Faith.)Â? I should probably be feeling guilty because I do eat a fair amount of processed food at the moment (well… given that I’m living on ramen) and I eat a lot of Subway because it’s on my way home and I can actually control what’s on my sandwich.Â? However, I’m also so low on spare time and energy at the moment that I’m not fully able to have a conscience about where my food was raised and how far it traveled to get to me.Â? More about my thoughts on the book and its feasibility for me later.