Freshly fallen snow right before the holidays makes for great picturesque Christmas cards. Snow post Christmas incites a litany of swear words for me. I am tired of stepping outside holding my daughter and navigating the ice so I don't drop us both on our heads. I'm tired of shaking snow off of my pant legs. Although I deeply love my new Uggs, I miss flip flops. Will I head to Florida with the rest of the snowbirds? Nope, Stillwater it is. Hockey game 9:15pm. NINE FIFTEEN PM. At 9:15pm on a Friday I should be staring at the TV while sipping the 2008 petit verdot I've held onto since Christmas day, (I mention this because holding onto wine really ain't my thang). I originally planned to hit the red box and lose myself in Eat Pray Love to see what the fuss is about and to see James Franco. Oh James, I heart you. Did any of ya'll see him in drag for Candy magazine?? WOWZA. Anyway back to the reasons I distrust winter...it makes cars do funny things. For instance when I go over a speed bump my shocks sound like I rolled over a giant Funyon. I can't get my car washed because I hate washing my car before snow/rain/ice storm and one of those things seems to be ALWAYS happening. UGH, winter, you've got me by the cajones and I can't stand it.
Hmm, so I've been thinking of sending a friend of mine a message on FB and then I thought, I should call. I haven't broken a friendship since my days at William R DeAvila in San Francisco. My pal LaRae thought it would be funny to pull my Cabbage Patch doll's hair (mmm hmmm, she did have the nerve!). Yea, that stunt pretty much cost her my lifelong friendship sooo really, its gotta be big. I have a pal I've known for (I just counted in my head and its freaking me out) twenty years! However, for the past year, she has had one ailment or another whenever invited to do something. She's cancelled, via text no less, to the past I guess its 6 gatherings she's been invited to. The most recent set me over the edge and it being the new year, the new year of no b.s. I figure eh, I've had it, I'm done. This brings me to a question, do friendships run their course? Perhaps she and I have just drifted so far into each other's own lands that we're just not friends anymore. I guess I'm not mad, confused yes, but not mad. I'm confused, because who wouldn't want to hang out with me right?? Riiiiiight???
So new things I'm noticing:
1) Could you buy Xmas presents people don't want, they go back and return them and because of all the sales turn their one gift into many??? Hmmm I'm pondering this.
2) The 3yr old started preschool, I asked him about his day, his response "moooom, we can talk about this at bedtime"
3) Thank you North Face for providing me a warm, unbulky, lightweight jacket. You're the best, now I've got to find a mountain to climb.
4) I no longer accept this: "that's just how men are" (insert anything in place of "men")
5) Need a girls night RIGHT NOW!
6) Grace Potter and the Nocturnals. She is stanky blues to the core with a bit of rock and roll and i love her. I love her before she got Gwyneth Paltrow's hair that she has now. She can sing me to sleep or sing me to dance any night of the week.
7) Okay, PioneerWomanCooks, have you not gotten on the website yet?? My word, made another of her homecookin' recipes aptly names Comfort Meatballs with mashed potatoes. Winter, comfort meatballs, I smell happiness..................
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