a day of chill

[liminal_space]

soooo...it was 14 degrees this morning and i went out in warm leggings, a sweatshirt (hood up, i'm no fool), gloves, and my fauxuggs (they're the toe-toastiest!) to walk the dog. i was FINE and have now decided that most people in this state with their COATS and multiple layers are a bunch of wusses and i, miss california herself, am a badass. 

please do not come at me with facts about how i'm going to die when it really gets cold....let me live in denial for awhile longer. =D

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mister and little are in duluth doing some final bits and bobs shopping — they left at 9 and won't be home until 2, so i PLAN on getting a few things done before they get back. or maybe one thing, because i am going to get more coffee and read "a bit" before i start on the holiday chex mix stuff. when they get back, i'll probably make up the meringue peppermint cookies since they need at least 3 hours in the oven — the plan is to whip them up, cook for the hour, then let them sit until mister needs to make the finnish cookies tonight. 

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i told mister last night that i'm struggling to find my positive right now, and i hate it. there's so much on hold with the house, his raise/promotion, etc and so on, and i've been trying so hard (and mostly succeeding) to be in the moment and realize that things will work out on their time. when i can embrace that, life is so much better. when i can't? i get all blue and mopey and no one wants a mopey lori around. not even lori. :P

it didn't help last night when i had finished watching the last episode of /the gilded age/ and the reality settled that i now have nothing new to watch that i love. i really love /the gilded age/ and while the wrap up of the season was relatively predictable, it was still wonderful. 

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i'm thinking that mid january, i'm going to get kid and i in a knitting class in duluth at the bestyarnstoreever. that gives me enough time to catalog and inventory the needles and yarn i currently have so we don't have to duplicate buy. a cursory glance told me i have lots of duplicate THINGS and i'm sort of scared to dive into a fact-finding stash examination, but it needs to be done. 

meh.

before that, though, i need to do a refresher with my DSLR's settings. i am ready to start taking photos again and want to use that as impetus to get out and explore a bit more. there are lots of secret, dark and wooded places around here and i want to figure out how to capture that ambiance. THAT is the most frustrating thing about photography to me — capturing mood. it's like you SEE and FEEL the glowing green of a forest and think you are in the presence of the divine, but when you photograph it? it's like "oh, look, a tree!"

MEH. 

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i have rice cooking (i am now team rice cooker!) and as soon as it's done, i'm making myself a fried egg in chili crisp and plopping it on top. that sounds like a tasty lunch. *nod*

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have a great day, people: you probably deserve it. =D