Thanks for the fish

for the big snow storm! Exciting! Went to the grocery store and everyone was all out and about, buying their goodies. The wine aisle and cracker aisles were especially bare! So I got into the spirit too and got a bottle of my favorite Ravenswood Shiraz, which even J has taken a liking too. He’s not much of a red wine man, but he does like his port and he claims the shiraz is simliar. Which I dont’ buy because I hate port. But anyway… I told my mom about the cracker and wine aisles being picked over and she said “wow, people in maine really have their priorities right!” ha! yeah… : ) Don’t bother about the TP and the milk… but get your carbs and booze!

We also got our tree today. I guess it’s wicked early now that I think about it, but for some reason I think I’m all behind on my xmas stuff. WE just stopped at a nursery up the road and got some type of fir (i think? spruce? i dunno but it’s not a pine and it’s not a balsam - who would’ve thought I have a certificate in “woody landscape plants” hanging on my wall. Yeah, it’s a fir or a spruce).  It’s small and we crammed it in the back of my subaru. I wanted a tree, but I don’t like the whole ordeal, but I just couldn’t get myself to get a fake one. I just think of the tradition, and my german heritage and it just feels so good and pagan to get a real tree and bring it in the house! I can’t explain it. And it does smell good. And the cats love it. : ) I guess we’ll decorate it tomorrow as we pretend to “work from home” during the snowstorm.

I’ve been eating a ton of cheese lately. Very unhealthy I know. But at least it’s natural. I’ve just gone off all this “partially hydrogenated” “high fructose” made in china crap. I mean, for god’s sake, people lived off natural stuff for millenia and made it this far, saturated fat be damned! ooh! I was going to make strawberry shortcake tonight with some of my frozen berries. I should go do that but I’m stuffed. blehc. ummm… ok, focus: books I have laying around that I want to read:

Me talk pretty one day (my sister gave me this)
Kite runner & 1000 splendid suns (my whole family has gone gaga over this guy, which makes me not want to read it, but I know that’s just passive aggression talking).
Finding Flow - started this and looks good! I wanted to read today but never got around to it. J made me hold the stupid ladder in frigid temperatures as he cleaned the gutters. As retaliation I made him cube the cheddar cheese. He’s such a damn control freak though. I am going to train him to not be so controlling. WE drive to the grocery store (I drive to the grocery store) and he tries to tell me where to park. I’m like, dude - I can figure this one out for myself, ok? Sorry.. : ) uM, yeah. But we’ve had a good day.

I’m alternating regretting applying for a new job, and anticipating a change. I guess I just have to have faith in what I’ve decided. And if they don’t give me the salary I want, then f em. I’m hoping my nordstrom dresses come tomorrow! ok… strawberry shortcake time!