Frozen Tundra Tidbits

it's been a minute and let me preface things by saying that i am cold, i am cold, i am cold! :)

BUT...i still cowgirled up and took a nice long walk with KJBDE. at a few points, i regretted my decision to take her since she kept bounding off towards the woods and into drifts of snow that went up to her dog knees! or dog elbows. whichever. anyway, she kept getting little snowballs between her toes and would just stop, flop over, and gnaw at her feet to get them out — which, because of the dog slobber on her feet, caused more little snowballs. still, it was lovely; there are few things better than a dog smile and she was smiling the entire time. 

there have been a few days of what *i* would call bitterly cold (-11), but i still tried to go out and get walks in. i discovered FROZEN NOSE HAIR on one of the coldest days and figured out how to keep that from happening — it was sort of cool, sort of...snot. ha. 

kid started school this week and i decided to take a for fun class with her in solidarity, so i'm taking astronomy 101! =D i'm having a great time so far, but i AM cracking up on the discussion forums. there was one chick who was saying she was so excited about the class because she loves horoscopes and astrology and i've decided i want to be her friend. 

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