It's spring.
I'm restless.

I'm sure nothing at all bad will transpire given that.

ETA: seriously. It feels like my blood is screaming.

I am grumpy.
But I also finished my part of the Big Project that has had me crying into my beverage for the last month. I'm too fatigued to appreciate this victory.

I'm giving my hormones a suspicious side-eye here.
But also 6 feet of snow is enough to get a girl down.

I am sitting here, catching up on LJ and will try to catch up on other social media, too, and I realized something that made me stop reading and start writing ( Read more... )

We did not have french toast, but I did make cinnamon buns today, on our 2nd day of being at home with Snowpocalypse.  It's the first storm where QE was not in a plow for 48 hours straight, he says he is wistful, but I'm glad he was home.  We're in the midst of a huge project at work that demands we meet goals by X date. The work was transportable ( Read more... )

( Days 3-6 )

In the wake of destruction, let's think about not destruction. Tell me something(s) you did today or very recently that you're happy about.

I didn't have to go to work today.
Today it was sunny and felt like spring. The forsythia's out, which means everything will turn green in time for my birthday, as usual.
I got to visit with buxom_bey and little Roo ( Read more... )

My parents arrived on Monday/Christmas Eve before dinner time and like all their visits of late, are entirely engrossing, but also quite low-key. There's coffee, art projects, playing with the baby, walks, jaunts to Harvard Sq and/or Porter, maybe a visit to friends, movies watched, cookies baked (if it's Christmas), and did I mention playing with ( Read more... )

purple_terror took off for Maine this morning. My parents (aint_it_hard and deb_dus) arrive sometime tomorrow afternoon.
I got to see barodar for a long over-due massage.
QE and I went to see entrope and family this afternoon. Crime fighter tried to eat the play dough and discovered it was indeed, nasty. Some things you have to sort out for yourself despite the emphatic warnings of one's elders ( Read more... )

Thanks to a well timed Christmas bonus, using up my use-it-or-lose-it vacation/PTO, and deciding I should give myself some pretty time, I went to a great spa/salon outside Davis - L'Elegance. I recommend it entirely. It's very inexpensive, they're very thoughtful....
But.
I've been very very fortunate to have limited exposure to the forced death ( Read more... )

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