Short Days/Long Days

Though the days are at their shortest for the year, I am feeling like they are taking much too long to pass. A nice walk outside would be nice, but there's ice everywhere and it's cold. I wanted a few days to take it easy after the holidays and I got them. It's a shock! I finished Ina May's book about home births a couple days ago and I finished A"Diary" by Chuck Palahniuk (author of Fight Club) today. I couldn't put Diary down so I read most of the day today. The first book was obviously about pregnancy/birth. The second wasn't, though there were some chapters (diary entries, rather) about birth control,pregnancy,motherhood...It seems that every book and movie has some plot twist that involves procreation. Even "The Godfather II", which we watched the first half of last night has a climactic scene in which Michael's wife Kay admits that she didn't have a miscarriage, she had (gasp) an abortion-then Michael (Al Pacino) whacks her across the face and gives her the look of death which is not a look you want to get from him. We stopped the movie shortly after this scene, so I don't know if Kay meets her demise or what. I hope not, I like Diane Keaton. We rented the 5 disc set for .99 at Cash Wise. These movies are soooo long. Neither Peter nor I have seen any of the movies (another gasp). Another one we saw recently was The Golden Compass. Peter's read it, I was about 3/4 done when I stopped reading it about 6 months ago. It was good. I think it would be confusing to someone who has not read the book. They give away the final chapter in the first or second scene about "Dust." Since I never finished the book, I was a little taken aback by this giveaway, but I liked the movie nonetheless. Tonight we are going to National Treasure, which will make it 2 theater movies this week, plus all the Godfathers, and also another rental...I can't remember the name...it was about Russian mobsters in London clashing with a (get this) nurse midwife. I've been getting tired and light headed all the time so it limits what I feel like doing, hence all the lazy activities. I think I'm fighting a cold, too. Pleasantries. I bought another puzzle today and I have numerous baby books to read and will continue with "The New Kings of Nonfiction," edited by Ira Glass. Oh, and of course finish the Godfather series.

Happy New Year! We aren't planning on staying up to see the ball drop. Maybe we'll have a party next year in our "urban cabin" when I'm a real functional person again.

Our driveway after a beautiful snowfall.


Elphaba looking rather goofy.