I knew there was a reason I bought this chair. Things look damnably photogenic on it.
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Lately there's been an urge to hibernate, to stare morosely out of windows at the increasingly bare hills and sigh. Tea and tangles of string. It's like November has come a week early all of a sudden.
(In theory I should be squeeing at you right this minute because they said the s-word on the weather report, but I can't even seem to muster my normal Schneeflocken enthusiasm. It's THAT BAD.)
Anticipating pumpkin cheesecake later this week-and more importantly, to keep the house warm-I ended up steaming a small pumpkin over the course of the evening. The rudest sucking, splorting sound you can imagine and one of the pumpkin halves gave a little heave and collapsed under its weight.
Strangely cathartic. Instant mood restorer.
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