The Frank Funny Farm

i'm feeling all blah and not wanting to read that book and take notes on it any more than i want to dive into reading a play. mostly because i know i won't finish it and i like to just read a play all at once if i can. the wee one is asleep, so it's just me and the cats and the dog that live here, FREEZING. it's that special time of year when it's not quite cold enough to justify turning the heat on, so it's just cold; especially so since the bossman's house (like ours) tends to be cold most of the time anyway. and i tend to be cold most of the time anyway. oh well. i can't and shan't complain (too much) though, because it's finally all fally and glorious outside. wednesday i'll just have to be smart enough to bring a sweatshirt.

maybe that's the reason i'm blah. i mean, freezing lowers your body temperature and slow down your systems and stuff, so i have settled into a state of frozen lethargy apparently. i have no real reason otherwise. i really don't have a case of the mondays. somehow i'm not tired today, even though ben and i stayed up past our bedtime last night. we churched, then went to jim and nick's with the tuckers (man, i would do things for those cheese muffins. dirty things. bad things. things requiring repentance later) where i made the (un)fortunate discovery that not only is their food great, they are masters of the pie as well. our pie-eating lead to ben punning (i can't remember why) "pie definition," which spawned a conversation to determine to what that would make the best title. becky determined that it should be a pie cookbook. i determined that i should never own a pie cookbook. anyway, after we got home we had to watch true blood and then we still weren't totally sleepy so we watched family guy, too. but still, magically not too tired. (knocking on wooden table as we speak - i have class tonight)

we did have a great weekend, though. saturday was spent moving our current batch of wine (a pinotage) from the glass carboy to the plastic bucket, cleaning the carboy so we could return the wine to it and add some stuff to give it a few extra months of tasty. that took longer than we expected, but oh well. november 1 we shall bottle it. yay! then we had an adventure to costco, always and interesting experience and to our 'main event' for the evening: we ventured to cmt to watch the premiere of the exciting new show 'hulk hogan's celebrity wrestling' with a few people from the creative dept. and yes, it was just as fantastic as it sounds,  even better perhaps since the head of creative was dressed as a luchadore. he even had a cape. anyway, after that most of them went to a haunted house but we were forced to be responsible and go home and clean our filthy, neglected, dog-hair covered house. it's much better now.

yesterday we watched some footballs, then i played in the backyard and ben took pictures of me for fun or something. and today i was productive during the morning nap and have spent the other times being entertained greatly by various baby sounds and flailings. she's so awesome. ridiculously happy all the time. i need some of that in my coffee. anyway, perhaps eventually i'll have something at least remotely interesting to say. there's always lots going on in my head, trying to make sense of it and transcribe it is the tricky part. i'm feeling very self-absorbed lately and i do not like it one bit. (oh the irony of blogging that. i'm so narcisstic, look at me, read my blog about nothing, waaah!). there's a lot going on in the general vicinity of me, and no i havent sorted out that french thing yet, though ben keeps saying "take the class, take the class" i may soon give up. that'd be one less thing to swirl about, having a tangible (or internetangible) set of lessons, the accountability, the structure. anyway, if you've made it to the end, kudos. i have no real reward unfortunately. i have this: i'm listening to the bon iver album and i really don't think i'll ever get tired of it, i'm freezing, but half an hour from heading towards coffee (then class, also freezing), i am truly, unbelievably freaking blessed, in just about every possible way (except perhaps metabolically :->), and if you're reading this, then you have access to (and probably own) a computer, electricity and in all likelihood a place to live, you too, are so much better off than so much of the world. say thank you. oh, and tomorrow a happy post, i promise.

Tags: blah, brain dumpin', i'm cold!, weekend