Love & a Steady Hand

Happy Thanksgiving

This, to me at least, looks like heaven:

The weird part is that my sister and I both called my mom (well, our mom really) at almost the same moment to ask her how to make dressing. It was very very strange. I made a stuffing version, because Tim likes it better that way, but it was Mom's recipe all right and mighty tasty too! The food was amazing, for those well enough to enjoy. That number speedily dwindled...

Here is what the rest of our holiday has looked like:

She was the first to succumb.

T. was next. So far littlebit and I are hanging in there well. So far...

The view from here

On the way to school this morning Mara actually predicted this, but I wouldn't have seen it if my friend Nancy hadn't called to alert us. The phone rang and she says, "It's Nancy, I have a happy emergency! Look outside, to the northwest!"

Once I figured out which direction I was supposed to be looking, this is what we saw:

Extreme Makeover Time

You'll probably have noticed the new look for the blog. I've felt discontented with the look of things for quite a long time now, but I haven't felt like doing much of anything -- also for a long time, so the changes just haven't happened.

But last week, in the middle of the first three good days -- there have been more since then -- I realized that I just haven't felt like me for a long time. Now, there are any number of things contributing to that feeling, but I finally realized that while I have looked like this for the past four years or so:

when I think about myself, I don't see the long hair with the image in my mind. Instead I see myself circa 1987 -- I ought to scan that photo in and post it, I'll think about that idea -- So really, as I picture myself, I see a short-hair person, not a long hair person. And that idea has been bubbling around in my head since about last Thursday, which is when I made an appointment to go back to this:

I had it cut on Monday, but here's today:

I feel so much better already!

Three Good Days

I just wanted to log in and say that I have had three, now three and a half, good days in a row.

I am not sure why. Probably the fact that the Democrats have taken Congress back gives me some kind of hope for the future. Which feels pathetic, but my moods are completely impossible to predict anymore.

I just thought you'd like to know that there have been three good ones.

This blog is depressing

or had you noticed that already?