Do you hear that sound?
That sound would be me laughing gleefully. I am laughing gleefully because, right now, I am sitting in a warm living room, and from this living room, I can look out the window. And there is no snow on the ground. Because it is a balmy 33 degrees outside.
Thirty-three degrees is classified as balmy by us Northerners if it's anytime after October 1st.
In case you haven't deduced this yet, I am no longer in my native state. I am much farther south, visiting Jessica and Kevin, and Kevin's family. Oh, and I decided to bring Erika with me as well, but apparently she doesn't feel like blogging at the moment. So you get to put up with me instead.
This is the part I'm bad at. I think I'm supposed to give all of you random, mundane details like "The ride down was fine" and "We are all doing fine" etc., etc. I'm better at making things up (it's much more fun) but for Erika's sake (after all, I am writing this in her name...) I will attempt to be mostly honest (read: boring).
So the car trip was fine - we arrived at about six p.m., after driving for about six hours. And Kevin and Jessica and all the people down here are indeed doing fine.
Phew, we got that part out of the way. Now I can talk about interesting things.
For instance, did you know that you can buy chocolate shaped like cute little penguins? Jessica, Kevin, Erika, and I went shopping this morning and Erika (with her Penguin radar) discovered the chocolate penguins roughly five seconds after entering the store. Who says Christmas shopping can only benefit the people on the receiving end of the gifts?
We also went to the library. I really like libraries. I like to think that I'm not a nerd (or a geek - believe it or not, there is a difference...I just can't thing of what it is) but when I go to a library I start believing that being a nerd might not be so bad after all. When I'm rich and famous, I plan on owning several libraries.
We checked out a huge stack of movies and Erika discovered a book that she hasn't read yet, so it was a good library. While we're on that subject, have you ever noticed that there are no Thanksgiving movies? There are plenty of Christmas movies (For instance, we always watch It's a Wonderful Life and The Grinch that Stole Christmas) but nobody makes movies about Thanksgiving. At least, not that I've noticed. But I digress.
This is the part where I make wild promises to blog everyday until I get home and you laugh at the computer screen in disbelief because you're very smart and you know I won't do that. So instead, I'm just going to say that I will try to post again sometime before too long...that is, as long as I don't get too many comments begging me to leave to blogging to the expert (that would be Erika).
Signing off!
-Annetta
4 comments:
Can I critique your grammar?
an update's an update, no matter the author...
If you were up here you would indeed think that 33 degrees was practically the tropics. Have you seen any cactus? Orange trees in full bloom, I suppose...
Ditto with Nadea, that every post is it's own reward.
OH! There is an ENORMOUS DIFFERENCE! I would give you my 50 page dissertation upon the subtle yet profound deviations between Geek and Nerd, but that would make me look like a windbag. (But hey if the shoe fits, right?) Anywho one is interested in computers and will be rich. (Think Steve Jobs or Bill Gates) The other is a liberal arts major who liked books instead of getting his college paid for by coasting on an athletic scholarship. (no, I am not bitter. Why do you ask?)
As for Thanksgiving, it helps to just mentally blank out all mentions of the word "Christmas" in your mind before Thanksgiving, and you replace it with Thanksgiving. For instance, those lights put up by your neighbors a week before Thanksgiving? Those are undoubtedly Thanksgiving lights. Some people even put up Thanksgiving trees, and Rudolph pulled Santa's sleigh on Thanksgiving night. Then after Thanksgiving it all goes back to normal.
Yay, comments!
Hunter, I'm ignoring yours. :P
Nadea, why thanks! No, I actually haven't seen any cactus...as far as orange trees, I keep expecting to see one, but I haven't yet. I'll keep my eye out.
Gryphone, you can give me your dissertation, but I'm not promising I'll read it... :) I agree with you about the Thanksgiving/Christmas thing...very good idea.
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