In which — aw, hell. Nothin’. In which nothin’. *sigh*
This morning I caved — because not only am I weak but it’s cold and I was hungry and very sleepy — and I pulled into McD’s for an egg ‘n’ cheese biscuit, hash browns, and a small orange juice. Now that I can use plastic to get food there, it’s even easier. The bastards.
I’m a little bit unhappy about how cold the house is this winter, with all that insulation gone due to the remodel in progress. There are icy arctic breezes in the hallways. I’ve been sleeping with a hat and slippers on.
The cold snap hasn’t broken and let me tell you what: it is WAY FUCKING COLD. We heat our house primarily with wood, and no matter how thoroughly we stoke the stove at night the fire always goes out before morning. This means that every time I’ve hauled my ass out of bed in the past five mornings it’s been about 40 degrees in my room. Which makes me cranky. Very, very cranky.
I’m boring and I haven’t done anything fun since my last post. The weekend review goes like this: I stayed home Friday (because I was tired after putting in my first 40 hour week in, like, three years. I know: waaaah). Saturday BoS came and made us breakfast (bless his fuzzy little heart) and in the afternoon Bread went to Hickory House to play poker and didn’t come home ’til midnight (while I stayed home in blessed solitude and didn’t even get dressed). Sunday I slept in, then rode to town with Bread and got dropped at rehearsal while he went to BoS’s. The end.
I know: yawn. I’m boring, I’m astonishingly broke, and you’re glad I posted that Frappr map so at least there’s something to do around here. Please, do my boring life a favor and go Frappr. Right over there, to the right, the map thing? Click on it. Yeah. Be my friend. Mmm.
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My first ever house my first ever winter alone and I slept with an electric blanket on, wincyette pyjamas, a sweater, thermal socks, a hat, a hot water bottle, two duvets and a dressing gown on the bed. The cat used to climb in with me and we’d like there shivering until I could decently get up and make a cup of tea.
Urk :(.
1. warmer weather is coming your way. alaska finally sent something decent and it arrived yesterday. you’ll be warming up in a day or two…unless alaska doens’t like you and sends you more cold.
2. into every life, some boring entries must fall.
3. at least you don’t have frost on your eyelashes when you wake up.
4. will you go to the library and get my books about complicated greiving of survivors of suicide (those loved ones who are left behind, not those who fail to kill themselves)?
5. i wanna nap.
Well, if your weather is anything like ours (and it often seems to be) then today was at least better than Saturday (holy shit!!!) and tomorrow, as Naomi said, will be better yet. Hang in there!
Naomi, by “my books” did you mean you wrote the books? Tell us more, sounds interesting. I want to get those books…
p.s. I did the Frappr thing, but it pinpointed my location as somewhere in the middle of the ocean, right on the equator, due south of Burkina Faso.
I wish I were there–it’s guaranteed to be warmer–but I’m not. Hmmm. Wonder what’s wrong with it…
duh, never mind, i’m an idjit.