The holidays are making a lot of people lazy. I’ve noticed a major decrease in the number of blog postings in my RSS feeder in the past few days. I will try not to be one of those lazy bloggers. So here’s a post!
This week has been uncharacteristically busy for me. I have been making a major effort to be more social and get out of the house lately. When Tracy lived with me, I had about as much social interaction as I needed. But now that I live alone, I feel the need to be out and about, because the dog doesn’t quite do it. Sometimes I need a real push out the door to do something, even if I like doing it once I get there, but I’m getting better about that.
Anyway, other than photo club, I also successfully got a few people together to play bar trivia on Wednesday, with the hope that they’ll be up for it repeatedly in the future. I am excited about that! AND I invited people to my house tonight and I’m making them dinner. I know! That’s not a joke! What happened? Turn it off! (Prepare to be amazed. It’s a goyische Hanukkah dinner, with latkes and kugel and bread pudding. Bread pudding! I am long overdue for learning to make bread pudding, as it is apparently very easy to make and I love it so much.)
I’m making slow but steady progress on holiday-related shopping. Our Christmas with the immediate family won’t be until New Year’s Day, so I still have two weeks for most of it. We are planning to spend Christmas Day baking up cookies and treats for ourselves, more for the fun of it than anything, so I have to do some food shopping in the next few days, but otherwise, I have had some time to sits and thinks about gift shopping and all of that. And then I will wrap it all on Christmas Eve, which will feel jolly festive.
We’re even supposed to get some snow, but mostly just trace amounts. It’s still nice to see snowflakes falling, even if I wish they would stick. I keep planning a trip to Des Moines, so maybe I’ll get lucky and go up there when they’re having a big snowfall this winter. That would be super nice.
I wrote the above and then went to lunch. The weatherman was wrong most of last year, when they would predict snowfall and it wouldn’t happen. Today he was wrong again, because there is some accumulation of snow at my house! Not a lot, but a nice amount of that lovely fluffy stuff that clings to all the branches and looks spiffy. I went home with some groceries for my dinner party tonight (hey, there’s going to be three of us! That’s a party! hell, I would call it a party if it’s just me and Martha and some Candy Cane Hershey Kisses, actually…) and I was able to go out and take some quick pictures in the backyard for 365, though I got a lot of them, and I’m excited about the snow, so maybe I will process a whole bunch of them.
So, the weekend. I am hoping it continues snowing all day and then we’ll have something accumulated tomorrow. That would be nice. I would go out in it and take more pictures, even though I am using my smaller backup camera these days since I sent the big one off for repairs this week. The repairs guy said that I would hear back about it in a couple weeks and then it would be sent back two weeks after that, so there’s the hope that I will get it back by mid-January. But that is a lot of time with my comparatively rinky-dink Nikon D50. It makes me seriously consider saving up for another big time camera, but that should really be at least another year off, especially now that I’m paying for a replacement shutter for this one.
Tomorrow night I’m going to a roller derby bout. I’ve been wanting to see one of these for several years, but it’s never worked out. Tomorrow should work out, though, and that’s exciting.
Otherwise, the weekend should go fairly smoothly and there’s not a lot going on in my life. Woo-hoo!
I do not plan to see Avatar. The AV Club rated it a C even though my besties over at The Awl all loved the hell out of it. Sorry, Choire Sicha, I think you’re the cat’s meow, but I’m going to take Scott Tobias’s opinion over yours. I think the movie looks terrible, not to mention 162 minutes long, but generally I do not think a movie is good just because the technology is good. I love movies that have an actual plot, written by people who don’t name mystical planets Pandora, of all stupid hokey things. People, please.
I might go see The Road, though. It starts at Ragtag this week. Michael K. Williams (Omar Little) is in it, and that might be worth it just on its own.
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