Snowed in again. This winter has been… “challenging.” Last year was livable, with the very notable exception of the major storm in January. That was a few weeks of mess though. This winter has either been wicked cold, raining, snowing, or some combination of the three. Save a few very brief breaks of 60’s, it’s been too cold to leave the house for months. Heck, it’s been too cold to leave bed most days. Our mantra has been “it’ll warm up any day now,” but I am actually starting to have doubts. It might just be freezing the rest of the year. No bueno.

Nothing to relate from the weekend. Can’t leave the house. More TV. BOO! We did cook some reasonably good food along the way, which luckily we had in the freezer. I also made avocado toast for breakfast a few times, as we had a bunch of avocados approaching end-of-life. I gotta say, I just don’t get that pairing. Never have. People just rave and carry on about it, even claiming “oh, you have to go to such-and-such restaurant, they have the BEST avocado toast!!!!” Yeah… It’s OK… at the end of the day it’s a smushed up avocado spread on a piece of toast. I guess you might get a particularly great piece of toast (whatever constitutes great toast,) or a perfectly ripe avocado, but, well… It’s still a smushed avocado on toast. I’m likely showing my cheapskate side here (again,) but it also bugs me that people even order it at restaurants in the first place. Pay $15 for it, and claim it’s the best breakfast they ever had. Errrr… You know you can drop by the grocery on the way home, grab an avocado and a loaf of local bread, and have the same exact thing? Hey, whatever. Me, I’ll stick with the biscuits and gravy when I go out. (And invariably complain about that also, as it’s easy to make better at home. But at least you have to put a LITTLE effort into it.)

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I hope everyone enjoyed their President’s Day holiday! I know I didn’t, because it wasn’t a holiday for me. Woe. Despair. Oh well, I’ll get ’em next time. The worst part is, I spent the entire weekend saving my strength to have a big day, then figured out at the last minute that I didn’t get the day off at all. This leaves me with mighty scarce material to work with here. Even less than usual, if that’s possible. My apparent lack of ability to read a calendar, combined with the continuing crummy weather, made for an overall slow weekend. We did a little cooking, watched a few quite unmemorable movies, and… slept? I guess Friday we took the trash out, and then retrieved the cans post-pickup. Yeah I think I’ll call it a weekend summary at that point.

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Wow, that was a good game. I think I would have considered that a good game even if KC lost, but luckily I’ll never know. I don’t seem to remember it being as exciting as the comeback a few years ago against SF, but it was fun to watch for sure. We didn’t do it up too big for the game. Went over to a friend’s house and they fixed some great football food, and the four of us munched on it and cheered KC on. I have to say, I have no interest in the commercials or halftime what-so-ever, so I don’t have any input to that part. The whole idea of a “funny” or “great” commercial just totally escapes me. It’s a commercial. Go get something to eat, flip over to something else… Who wants to actually pay attention to a commercial?!?! I will accept that I seem to be in a vast minority there though, so I guess I hope everyone else “enjoyed” them.

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Been a little quiet out here. As in, dead still. Donette left on a KC trip a few weeks ago, saddling me with the overwhelming responsibility of taking care of the dogs, the house, AND myself. Not sure I really managed any of the three, but I tried. Sort of. For an added bonus, I had a little house guest for the weekend, my friend’s dog Renfield. He isn’t too much trouble though, and he does a great job entertaining Quinn. Tired doggies are good doggies. Other than being a very accomplished bed-hog, I’d say he was a welcome addition to the household for a few days. Other than that… Well, nothing. For a little perspective, my big excitement for the weekend was making chicken and rice Saturday. (I used legs instead of wings, as I’ve got a lifetime supply of them in the freezer.) Luckily it came out pretty good, otherwise the whole weekend would have been ruined. The rest of the weekend was filled with movies and… more movies. Generally speaking, exceptionally bad movies. Can’t really recall any that I would recommend.

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