Holidays and home improvement and expensive plushies
I'm depressingly predictable about weather. This weekend is the first one that feels like winter, and I say that without having set foot outside yesterday. Yesterday there were flurries, today the predicted high is 0 (ah, Celsius and its tidy freezing point), and tonight I kind of want to go see Deathly Hallows, except that my lizard brain is whimpering about the Cold and the Dark and Why Can't We Just Hibernate, Please? I'm getting around this by getting 
scruloose to make the decision, since I'm just being a wimp and he actually has a cold.
The good news is that this isn't the dire part of "winter" (scare quotes provided not just because it's a month until Solstice, but because Nova Scotia could change her mind and toss us back into autumn at any moment). I start my holiday clock ticking on US Thanksgiving, and next weekend Advent begins, and the week after that we're having a St. Nicholas Day party, which means it's time for me to assess my terrifying stack of cookie recipes. Here's hoping Casual Job doesn't spontaneously decide to eat me alive during the week beforehand (and of course it's the most likely week to do that), especially because next weekend our kitchen may be a bit torn apart.
Even more than painting (which is a very slow process for us), here's an indication that we're probably staying here for quite a while: we've decided that our joint/household Christmas present this year is hiring a local friend who's a great carpenter to spend a day doubling our "pantry" storage space (it lives in the washer/dryer closet, which is in the kitchen. It's an odd townhouse), adding a drawer*, and making a couple of the cupboards more useful. The pantry is actually the best part, but...a second drawer. (Right now we have one working drawer in our kitchen, which we somehow didn't notice until we moved in. The kitchen looks like it has somewhere between six and eight.) TWO DRAWERS. Unspeakably luxury.
So I've been contemplating the wonder of a plush Appa. I already knew they're expensive, but what confuses me is that Amazon.com vendors have three sizes available (ranging from 20" to 35"), and they're all exactly the same price. It doesn't matter, since a) new plushies all seem to be available for better prices and b) I probably won't buy one anyway, but...it's strange.
I know an Appa is an indulgence I shouldn't go for, but I can't shake the image of how cute it would be to have an Appa and a Totoro hanging out on a bookcase. Mind you, I need my shelf space for books, and I also don't have (and don't want to spend the necessary money on) a plush Totoro.
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scruloose to make the decision, since I'm just being a wimp and he actually has a cold.
The good news is that this isn't the dire part of "winter" (scare quotes provided not just because it's a month until Solstice, but because Nova Scotia could change her mind and toss us back into autumn at any moment). I start my holiday clock ticking on US Thanksgiving, and next weekend Advent begins, and the week after that we're having a St. Nicholas Day party, which means it's time for me to assess my terrifying stack of cookie recipes. Here's hoping Casual Job doesn't spontaneously decide to eat me alive during the week beforehand (and of course it's the most likely week to do that), especially because next weekend our kitchen may be a bit torn apart.
Even more than painting (which is a very slow process for us), here's an indication that we're probably staying here for quite a while: we've decided that our joint/household Christmas present this year is hiring a local friend who's a great carpenter to spend a day doubling our "pantry" storage space (it lives in the washer/dryer closet, which is in the kitchen. It's an odd townhouse), adding a drawer*, and making a couple of the cupboards more useful. The pantry is actually the best part, but...a second drawer. (Right now we have one working drawer in our kitchen, which we somehow didn't notice until we moved in. The kitchen looks like it has somewhere between six and eight.) TWO DRAWERS. Unspeakably luxury.
So I've been contemplating the wonder of a plush Appa. I already knew they're expensive, but what confuses me is that Amazon.com vendors have three sizes available (ranging from 20" to 35"), and they're all exactly the same price. It doesn't matter, since a) new plushies all seem to be available for better prices and b) I probably won't buy one anyway, but...it's strange.
I know an Appa is an indulgence I shouldn't go for, but I can't shake the image of how cute it would be to have an Appa and a Totoro hanging out on a bookcase. Mind you, I need my shelf space for books, and I also don't have (and don't want to spend the necessary money on) a plush Totoro.
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