i guess maybe i\u2019ve had a little too much time on my hands this week. suddenly the house is pretty darn clean, and very well-decorated. tonight i turned on the halloween lights and they look very good-n-festive and i\u2019m now ready for the party to start.<\/p>\n
i have a couple of weeks to wait.<\/p>\n
i can\u2019t imagine the house staying clean that long.<\/p>\n
i almost completely stopped buying more decorations yesterday, but then i bought a couple more today. but THAT\u2019S ALL.<\/p>\n
probably.<\/p>\n
no guarantees.<\/p>\n
except that mostly all there is now is XMAS STUFF EVERYWHERE.<\/p>\n
it finally got cold yesterday. i guess “cold” is a slight overstatement. i think it got up to 60, but it was very windy. mollie and i finally went running at about one o\u2019clock in the afternoon, but it hadn\u2019t warmed up much by then. she was very very happy to run in cooler weather. it was a pretty good run for both of us.<\/p>\n
but when i got home i realized it was CHILLY in the house. but it wasn\u2019t actually chilly; it was 72 degrees. which felt CHILLY to me. i really wanted to turn on the furnace but that would have been crazy. <\/p>\n
as the summer dragged on into october, i kept thinking i was going to enjoy the cooler weather when it finally came; i\u2019d sit around in warm&fuzzy clothes drinking hot chocolate. but i didn\u2019t think about the house being cold.<\/p>\n
not cold, really. <\/p>\n
i\u2019m just used to it being pretty warm around here.<\/p>\n
i did make some delicious hot chocolate last night. tonight, too.<\/p>\n
and right now i\u2019m sitting here in my new red flannel pajamas with pictures of cartoon dogs on them. they\u2019re very cute and very warm. i feel good, but also very wimpy.<\/p>\n
it\u2019s like when i went to christine\u2019s house one evening when we were both living in LA, and she lit a roaring fire in her fireplace…and i think the temperature was down to 55. brrr, we were cold. very wimpy, living in LA. not like the tough women we\u2019ve become – last year i lived through mounds and mountains of snow here in spfld, and she did the same in denver.<\/p>\n
it\u2019s supposed to be 80 degrees this weekend when kevin and i are going biking on the katy trail in missouri. so much for the cold weather.<\/p>\n
honey has started climbing up on the roof. we think she climbs the ladder that has been leaning against it all summer because kevin has been putting on new shingles, except he\u2019s paused in his efforts for a couple of months now. but it\u2019s almost done. <\/p>\n
she seems to be very fond of climbing on the roof. <\/p>\n
i bought a new bag of buns today to replace the ones that mollie devoured. she looked longingly at the new package, but had to be content with doggie treats.<\/p>\n
we\u2019re going out to dinner on saturday night to celebrate my parents\u2019 wedding anniversary. they\u2019ve been married many many years and i don\u2019t recall ever actually remembering their anniversary. so this year we\u2019re going to try to make up for those many many years of forgetting by taking them to dinner.<\/p>\n
i really must go to sleep now.<\/p>\n
ok then,<\/p>\n
thursday night grace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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