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missroserose
...the rain actually makes the front page of the newspaper. (Or else it's just a slow news day.)
To be honest, as much as it has sucked having gallons of rain pelting down on us the last few days, I'm grateful in an odd sort of way - if it were about 10-20 degrees colder, this would all have been snow and we'd essentially have a repeat of the Great Four-Day Snowstorm of Early 2005. And that's not an experience I especially want to repeat.
In other news, it looks like Brian and I will be having a nice quiet Thanksgiving by ourselves - our friends all have plans and we don't exactly have any family in town right now. It's not like I'm disappointed about it, though - more food for us. =) We went grocery shopping and got a small turkey and yams and Martinelli's and Grands biscuits and all sorts of good stuff. I really can't wait, even though it'll be a metric assload of cooking (and cleaning, later on). Plus we both get Thursday and Friday off, so I'll have most of a day to digest before going to rehearsal Friday night.
So far as the knitting goes, I've finished two scarves (one for my boyfriend and one for my mother's boyfriend) and I'm still going strong. I've started mine, and it's coming out really nicely - I've been using a combination of that fuzzy purple 50% wool yarn I bought earlier, and some really nice white 100% wool yarn for the accent stripes. I have to say that going from mostly-acrylic to mostly-wool yarn has been a really nice experience; while the wool-acrylic blend is nice and warm and not too expensive, the wool yarn is about 50 times nicer to work with. It's softer, for one thing, and it doesn't split anywhere near as easily as the acrylic stuff does, which makes for fewer tangles. Plus it just feels nicer. So somehow I don't think I'm going to be going back to the acrylic stuff anytime soon.
I was reading older blog posts just now and realized exactly how many people from just the past year who were once big parts of my life and aren't any more. Ian's moved to Anchorage, and even though we keep in touch over MSN I miss having him around for big teddy-bear hugs when I need them; Monica had her baby and is now homebound most of the time; Thelonius-Brian and I don't really talk any more for a number of reasons; Ryan and I just don't seem to have that much to talk about anymore; and Lydia's usually busy with work or her family or some such (even though she lives next door and I suppose I could make an effort to keep in better touch). Additionally, my mother's been much more busy with her own life now that she actually has one, and while we do talk fairly often we aren't as big a part of each others' lives as we have been (which is probaby helped by the fact that I'm not financially dependent on her anymore). On the other hand, Brian and I have a relationship that is and has been wonderful and I wouldn't trade for anything, and I have my life enriched by the two felines who deign to give me companionship. So it evens out, more or less.
All that said, I think one of my holiday resolutions is going to be to keep in better touch with friends, or at least those who are left. To that effect, I'm probably going to take the part of Friday that I'm not either digesting or rehearsing and see if I can catch up with Monica and/or Jeanne and/or Lydia.
Have a happy Thanksgiving, everyone, and do try to think of things in your life that you're thankful for.
