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January 22, 2012~ 6:30 am
Bad weather, ice.... snow..... not a LOT, but enough to scare us into cancelling 'movie night' for Saturday. Late January freeze left us up a tree



so it's been verrrrrry quiet around these parts.

I mostly read. Finished a novel and started another one. Napped for hours at a time.... a good hibernation, all things considered: nothing to prepare for and nowhere to go.... looked out on the icy roads and occasional cars passing.



Actually, the weather didn't get as bad as predicted right around here, but some places a wee bit further south of the city had a half inch of ICE before the 4 or 5 inches of snow. Ugh! Nasty. We DID visit Holly and the grandkids on Friday evening before the storm hit. They capered about and danced and acted silly, and really buoyed my spirits. (It was a good shot in the arm to be with them. They always show such obvious delight in seeing us again.) We had the foresight to shop EARLY, before the visit, and yes.... the supermarket was a madhouse mess. Toilet paper, bread and milk flying off the shelves...LOL!! It wouldn't do to run out of that stuff during a winter storm, so I was well-stocked in my hidey hole.

I got up on Saturday, looked out, saw the icy nuisance I was happy to be avoiding..... and promptly made two hot dogs and took them up to bed with a big glass of milk and some buttery Entenmann's pound cake. Last night I heated up a Hormel turkey and stuffing quick meal. LOL!! More pound cake and 2 bananas. One thing you can say about solitude.....



it's the one light shining while the rest of the world stays dark. (Aaannnd, you can let your butt hang out all you please, it's just you and the furniture.)

(Like this new blog entry here. I usually put it up around midnight on Sunday morning, but heck.... I was already sleeping. That would have cut into my totally free-spirited non-schedule for this weekend.) My bladder finally woke me at quarter to six this morning so here I am, sipping coffee and typing away. Later I'll see mum and have dinner, do her laundry, but it's been a lazy old weekend up till now. Hope you had a cozy one as well.




January 23, 2012~ 6:45 pm



Happy

Chinese

New Year!

Yep. Midnight, January 23rd ushered in the 'Year Of The Dragon'. Though I'm hardly Chinese, I find this very exciting. I guess it has a lot to do with all the red and gold..... the lanterns, the parades and incense, ...the fireworks. Those BORN in the year of the dragon are said to be lucky-- as well as "strong, self-assured, eccentric, intellectual, and passionate." (Not a bad combination, right?) I've always loved dragons, their mythic size and fire and flight. With such bursts of imagery, how could this not be an exciting year? So......




for all the dragons out there (my year was last year... I'm a rabbit. lol) and all the little dragons-to-be... happy, HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR! (Wish I had some Chinese food tonight. I'd chomp it right down with gusto... maybe twirl a couple blazing batons.)




January 26, 2012~ 6:15 am
Disgusted with the patchy connections to the secure Scroogle Scraper (which I uses EXCLUSIVELY instead of the annoying, latched-on-like-a-burr Google)- the 'rolling blackouts' put in place, I'm certain, because the Google machine isn't garnering all the foisted-upon-us advertising revenues it's grown used to, I contributed handsomely to SCROOGLE last night. (Google reported a shocked 6 percent drop in income in the last quarter of 2011. The spoiled brats couldn't believe it. LOL!) I'm SICK of Google's GLOBAL hooks into people via location pinpointing, likes and dislikes, ISP addresses.... the whole 'profiling' of its users angers me to the boiling point.

As I've said before, I WON'T surf with cookies or javascript allowed, I've NEVER joined Google+ or Facebook, nor will I. It's a bunch of BIG BROTHER crap.



Hey.... it's not Google......... it's GOBBLE! (Greedy bastards.)

(Oh, and by the way... I MADE that little parody JPG. Loved every minute of it.)





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