12/20/2004: "Solstice and such"

music: The Waifs & Alister in Wonderland
mood: gravy. miss cranky pants.

The fog was thick this morning and beautfully blanketed the hills. Monterey Road was less ghetto with the mist though the drivers were still mornonic on the way to work. Tomorrow marks the shortest day of the year for those of us in this Hemisphere. I would say Northern hemisphere, but there are schools of thought that insist on calling it the Eastern and western hemisphere and I don't quite get it.

ANYWAY...The lack of daylight got to me today a bit. The weekend was SO beautiful and almost warm that I kind of feel like it should be summer and that I should have a few more hours of daylight. I do have a window at work which is great, and a view of some pretty good sun sets, but in all honesty, I would be okay with not watching it set before I have spent 20 minutes out in in. But this is just one of the many things Ihave no control over, and are on the list of things to fix when I rule the universe.

Once the sun did set this past weekend I spent a good portion of the weekend firtling (FUR-TLE-ING) about. Elf was quite funny, I fell asleep sadly during Dodge Ball and was SHOCKED at how horrible and uninteresting Spiderman 2 was. Long. Boring. Why is there a love story and a pathetic on at that in the middle of the movie and how could this movie break all box office records. I'm sorry, show me repeated coverage of the sentencing of Scott Petersen. I was actuallly moved to clean the moldly cheese tupperware in the fridge to give my eyes a momentary rest from it. A big old whatever. You don't even deserve a Rutger. Not even a R. Dodgeball gets a single sadly, and elf took away the weinner of the weekend with 3 rutgers.

Winner of the whole week: My niece Kayla who after a trans continental (and trans atlantic flight) and 2 hours detained in customs ( Marks Greencard was almost confiscated) and the 8 hour time difference kept a room of adults mezmerized for nearly an hour as she pointed at the dog and laughed, played with annoying sound making electronic toys, walked 4 steps and then fell and said things like duck, dada, la la and various sentence that no one could understand but she was certainly sure of what she was saying. Entertaining to be sure. She wield dumbfounding power and hardly notices.

Losers of the week: Sadly My father's doctor who was eliminated from the amazing race. The show has gotten a lot meaner and nuerotic than I think it started out being 6 seasons ago. What used to be essentially a mildly amusing travel show with a twist now makes people look rude and ignorant and horribly petty. Maybe they don't have to try to hard. ANYWHO...

On the agenda for the week of course includes eating, hunting for wedding dresses with my friend Erin who is in town, and looking forward to a few days off from work Starting Friday. No doubt I will keep you posted on the car cleaning endavour, and if you are interested in an actual paper version of my xmas card, once I recap the year, possibly in iambic pentameter, send me your address and you so shall recieve.

On the Bright side, Wednesday the days start getting longer. And longer as we know...can't hurt. Well...you know what I mean...