11.12.13 : Snowvember is HERE

I was running a little behind on getting out the door this morning, so I didn't have a chance to snap a memoir of the frosted white everything near my house. Instead... here's the view from my sister's place that she woke up to a couple of hours away back home in Mt. Vernon..

 

Snowvember is HERE.

beautiful!

Of course, the pure snow is way prettier back in my hometown than here in the city, but the urban limits of course do have a special way of making the snow glitter, too.

But c'mon.. THIS? How can you not love THIS [also an excerpt from today at my sister's]:

♥ color contrasts

So that being said, Rob's been back in Illinois now since yesterday and my house has drastically changed back into the silent shelter that it usually is when Sydni's not here. I miss my family [Sydni, Rob & the dogs] being here, but I'm still sort of recuperating from last week so I don't mind nestling up with a book at my own leisure. Sure, I could do that with them here, but I'd feel guilty for splitting my attention if they were here... so yeah.

Today was night #2 of parking my tail on the couch, book in hand, determined to make some ground with this book. I got... a little bit done. This last installment of the series is written a bit differently in format than the first two, and coupled with something of a far-fetched twist even to the original line itself, I'm pacing myself. I won't say I'm disappointed yet, but I have that weird feeling I will be. Bummer.

GOOD news:
I discovered, via Facebook newsfeed today, this beautifully-hilarious link [CLICK HEEEERE!! ] that I passed along to Ali. It basically pulls various words or fragments of things you've posted on Facebook and generates things you supposedly might say. What makes it funny is the mash-up of different words that just.. makes.. no sense.

Here's a snippet from the half hour that she and I spent sending ours back and forth. Even when we're generating random things from our pages, it still flows like a [rather dysfunctional] conversation.

wow... just... wow.

Too funny. I needed funny today. I'm still in some sort of funk and trying really hard right now to not get sick. I'm pretty tired, so I think tonight is going to be another do-nothing-but-lay here kinda deals. I'm perfectly fine with that.

See ya in the morning, blogbots (:

xo | cmd

HBD Nikki, On This Ho-Hum Day :/

Nikki walked into work this morning with what we are all convinced to be the early stages of either strep throat or laryngitis. Neither of those are any good, but I do remember clearly when I had laryngitis a few years back at Chris' office and was rendered vocally useless for nearly two weeks. Not a good time. And... it's her birthday, TODAY.

So let's focus on that instead of the yucky part. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, NIKKI!!!!

yeah, november bdays!

It kind of seemed like today was bound and determined to drone on into next month. On a few separate occasions I found myself checking the time only to find that not even an hour or two had lapsed since the last time I bothered to look. And then, as is usually the case, I found myself in the midst of a task I hadn't planned on doing and racing the last hour of the clock before 5pm rolled around. Good thing, too. The "eventful" nature of the past week definitely took a hit on me and I was down for the count by the time I got home.

 

Plus, this came out today and I made a beeline to pick it up after work:  

third & final installment of the divergent series

^ Yep. Here I go again, embracing my inner teenage bookworm for the next couple of days, sucked back into the world of Tris Prior & Tobias Eaton... we at work have all agreed not to judge each other for our shared affinity for stuff like this [we'll include Hunger Games in there, too]. I'm not quite halfway through it, but that was quite a war in and of itself anyway: to devour the entire thing in one sitting? ... or.... pace myself because I've already decided it's going to be a relaxing week and what else do I really have to do? Yeah.. issues. :p

Oh, and I laughed when I saw this from Rob earlier today as he toted the meatballs back home to Illinois. [I already miss them all..... ]

car full of my favorites.. aww..

Anywho, I'm beat. It's not even 9pm and I'm at the finish line for the day.
Sleep is a poor man's remedy..... G'nite!

xo | cmd