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Sunday, December 07, 2003

stress. sigh.

It is really, really raining outside. This is nice. I am all conflicted about whether I should go to bed (which would be the sane thing to do, considering the time and the fact that the alarm goes off to bring in a busy, busy day at 7:00), or stay up and read by the fire, enjoying the quiet and the sound of the rain. Such hard decisions.


I've been quiet the last few days; things have been kind of stressful, and very busy. What with Christmas, Thanksgiving, and three people's birthdays, we are having gatherings of the same 12-15 people FIVE TIMES in these four weeks, three of them at my house. Someday we'll have to break down and combine celebrations but I have always resisted that. We like each one to be fully separate. But this is getting ridiculous. At any rate, I'll be glad when things are more normal, and I hate that my favorite time of year is becoming such a dreaded source of stress. We've got to figure out how to change that.

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Friday, November 07, 2003

beautiful day today

If the weather could be like this every day, all year, it would be a perfect world. Well, at least weather-wise; I suppose even blissful blue skies with puffy white clouds during the day and rain every night wouldn't solve problems like sin and death and corruption and the IRS and all that. But it would be a good start.

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Thursday, October 30, 2003

fall, yay!

Today it is as if someone flipped a switch and all of a sudden fall is here. Two days ago it was 85 degrees. Tonight it's under 40 and it won't get above 55 tomorrow. Leaves are starting to turn and fall, the light has that golden slanty autumnal look to it, and C and I were wearing matching red sweaters today. Red sweaters and autumn days just belong together. Overall, I would be loving this to bits, and I am enjoying it, but without having had any rain it's not safe to build a fire in the woodstove -- and the woodstove is the only way to heat this house. So we made brownies tonight, to warm the house up a bit, and we're going to all pile into my bed tonight and put a bunch of extra blankets on it to keep us warm. Tomorrow there's a good chance of rain, so we'll probably be able to have a nice toasty fire tomorrow evening, and I'll send the kids to bed early and sit up for a long time reading a scrumptious Victorian novel. (I'm thinking I'll get Pickwick Papers tomorrow -- I've never read that one yet).



I have two very happy children. We ordered VHS copies of the Star Wars trilogy (IV, V, VI) and they arrived in today's mail. The kids couldn't even get out of the post office before they were literally giggling with glee. And gee, guess what's on right now. Bet you can't. ;-)

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