I have to remind myself not to wear peppermint lipbalm in the cold. It feels icy!

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It was 8 degrees when I got up this morning and we’re expecting snow later today ; 3-10 inches. (The two regions that we’re on the borderline of expect 3-6 and 4-10 inches, so who knows).

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I need to get up and get moving so I don’t miss the PO for the third time. I lost the item I was supposed to mail (found it in a pile of stuff I was getting rid of! Eek.). I think it really is easier to live in the summer. It’s easier to get out of bed, it’s easier to shower, it’s easier to breathe :) When the weather is perfect, it’s almost as if it’s a “non-atmosphere”. That said, bad weather or unusual is a great diversion from “unflavored” weather, which gets boring. Thunderstorms when it’s warm are great, with plenty of thunder and lightning when it’s dark (although it’s hard to sleep, then). It’s so odd to look out the window and imagine summer; green trees and grass, birds, flowers, and people. I definitely become more people-less in the winter.And birds - those signal spring has come, when they start chirping in the trees outside of my windows. Ahhh.

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I started watching a movie from BBC made called Middlemarch. It’s something like 400 minutes long. I watched the first episode and I must say that I have no intentions to finish the rest of it, even though I already wasted something like an hour on it. It’s obvious that the woman must have an affair of some sort, and especially at the beginning I felt like yelling “THINK!” at the characters. That said, it seems like it might actually be a good story to think about. The woman wants to be an intellectual - she wants to do something *more* than she is allowed by her family or society. But she ends up marrying someone who seems to be someone to allow her to do that, even though before they marry, he seems like an obvious NO. I mean, he’s telling her that he wishes to arrange for her to have companionship (her sister)  *on their honeymoon* in Rome so she won’t be lonely - he’s not planning on spending a fair amount of time with her, I guess. Why why why marry him? I don’t know how it turns out but it says on the back “After she marries so-and-so she’s attracted to his nephew.” (Not exact quote.) So, anyhow. Whoever has read or watched Middlemarch could tell me how it goes and I’ll spend a whole lot less time than hours on it ;)

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