A whole lotta nothin'
Twelve days until Christmas. Whee!!
My shopping is 90% done now. That's a good thing, I suppose. And I haven't stepped foot in a store to do it. Just like last year, I've done everything online. For one, it saves me the headache of engaging the shopping crowds. Second, things are generally cheaper online. Case in point: I bought Stacey a gift that is a good $60 cheaper online (at a reputable site) than in ANY local retail store.
In other news, I've been fighting off this perpetual cold for over two weeks. This week, it's been this weird drainage going down my throat from my right ear canal. Talk about an undesirable sensation. Eww... Nothing like waking up with a sore throat AND an earache. I only hope that this will finally go away by Christmas AND that no one else in my family gets sick. Again.
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I read this article this morning about a winter storm threat to the deep south beginning on Wednesday of next week. Snow, ice, maybe the works. Unusual for December in Alabama, but it's apparently happened before...so who knows. Maybe we'll get some sort of a white Christmas... I know there are skeptics out there (I'm surrounded), and a forecast a week away is generally 'off,' but still... It's the hope that's exciting...
Being a kid at heart, I still love snow. I can understand people who don't like snow if they're from a place where snow really is a headache of winter...like, Ohio (My friend, Jack, is from Ohio originally, and he does NOT like snow...heh). There, once it snows, it's there for days...or weeks...or, like in Minnesota (where Stacey's sis lives), once it snows in December, there's pretty much snow on the ground from then until late May.
But here in Alabamba, we haven't had a real snowfall since 1993. Sure, there's been a few dustings of snow and 1 or 2 major ice storms since, but we are WAY overdue for a real snowfall. I don't want 1993 redux, though...that was a real blizzard, and it socked people in and knocked power out for days (for some people). I just want a few inches of snow on the ground...enough to close the roads for 1 or 2 days. That's it. Then I could just stay home, play with Kailyn in the snow, and drink hot chocolate by the fireplace. Like a scene from an L.L. Bean catalog. Okay, maybe not that cheesy. But snow has been so rare recently, I WILL make the most of it whenever it happens.
Think it'll snow? Do you like snow at all? Feel free to discuss :-).
My shopping is 90% done now. That's a good thing, I suppose. And I haven't stepped foot in a store to do it. Just like last year, I've done everything online. For one, it saves me the headache of engaging the shopping crowds. Second, things are generally cheaper online. Case in point: I bought Stacey a gift that is a good $60 cheaper online (at a reputable site) than in ANY local retail store.
In other news, I've been fighting off this perpetual cold for over two weeks. This week, it's been this weird drainage going down my throat from my right ear canal. Talk about an undesirable sensation. Eww... Nothing like waking up with a sore throat AND an earache. I only hope that this will finally go away by Christmas AND that no one else in my family gets sick. Again.
...
I read this article this morning about a winter storm threat to the deep south beginning on Wednesday of next week. Snow, ice, maybe the works. Unusual for December in Alabama, but it's apparently happened before...so who knows. Maybe we'll get some sort of a white Christmas... I know there are skeptics out there (I'm surrounded), and a forecast a week away is generally 'off,' but still... It's the hope that's exciting...
Being a kid at heart, I still love snow. I can understand people who don't like snow if they're from a place where snow really is a headache of winter...like, Ohio (My friend, Jack, is from Ohio originally, and he does NOT like snow...heh). There, once it snows, it's there for days...or weeks...or, like in Minnesota (where Stacey's sis lives), once it snows in December, there's pretty much snow on the ground from then until late May.
But here in Alabamba, we haven't had a real snowfall since 1993. Sure, there's been a few dustings of snow and 1 or 2 major ice storms since, but we are WAY overdue for a real snowfall. I don't want 1993 redux, though...that was a real blizzard, and it socked people in and knocked power out for days (for some people). I just want a few inches of snow on the ground...enough to close the roads for 1 or 2 days. That's it. Then I could just stay home, play with Kailyn in the snow, and drink hot chocolate by the fireplace. Like a scene from an L.L. Bean catalog. Okay, maybe not that cheesy. But snow has been so rare recently, I WILL make the most of it whenever it happens.
Think it'll snow? Do you like snow at all? Feel free to discuss :-).
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