Our World Tuesday

A little update. Not much going on right now. The weather has been really awful here in central Texas for the last week or so — cold, damp, cloudy, lots of fog and heavy mists. Definitely not as bad as other parts of the country are suffering, but it's exactly the kind of weather I really hate. Like my mother, I suffer from seasonal affective disorder (never actually been diagnosed, but if you have it, you know it) and my moods are drastically affected by even the slightest changes in the amount of daylight and sunshine we have. I would not do well living in the Pacific Northwest or Ireland or Scandinavia. Lately, though, I feel like I'm there.

Before the mists descended, January has brought us a few really nice sunsets. And the full moon earlier this month was visible for a while.

But for the last couple of days, we haven't seen the sun or the moon.

So M and I have mostly been staying home and hunkering down. He didn't used to be such a weather wimp, but I've been a bad influence. We did have to venture out several times last week to take care of a few medical thingies — nothing terribly major, but important enough not to want to delay until the weather improves. We were very proud of ourselves for actually getting out and about!

Other than that, I've just been reading and organizing my reading challenges for the year (see my blog post about them). Also doing a lot of playing with my planner for 2017 — so far, I'm using my new Erin Condren planner,

but typically during the year I'll switch back and forth between the Condren planner and one or another of my Filofaxes. I guess I'm fickle. Or just not as organized as I like to think I am.

And that's about it. Our world is pretty quiet and boring (and cloudy) right now. Hoping for better stuff in the near future.

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Unconscious Mutterings: Week 728

Mutterings for January 8th. Wow, it's been a loooooong time since I muttered. Unconscious Mutterings is hosted by LunaNiña. Here we go....

1. Boarded :: ... the plane to Hawaii (wishful thinking for a wintery day)
2. System :: ... failure
3. Favor :: something you get at a party, or something another party asks of you
4. Sphere :: a sci-fi novel by Michael Crichton (movie starring Dustin Hoffman and Sharon Stone — an odd couple for sure)
5. Priorities :: mine always seem to be different from everyone else's
6. Chips :: potato
7. Lighting :: incandescent (how I miss it!)
8. Hopes :: don't get yours up (what my mother always told me)
9. Standing :: ... still 
10. Interest :: payment 

First Monday of the Year

So, here we are in the New Year. No more 2016 to kick around and complain about. I'm expecting (well...hoping, anyway) that 2017 is going to be gentler, friendlier, and more productive. Yes, I suppose that could be too much to hope for. But at least it started off well with a really pretty day yesterday. Lots of blue sky.

We had a fairly quiet holiday season. Didn't do a great deal of celebrating, but we did get to see some old friends, received some lovely gifts, and ate a lot of goodies (especially loved these "tiny pies" at one gathering).

Didn't watch all the usual Christmas movies, but we managed to fit in a few of the main ones (It's a Wonderful Life, The Bishop's Wife, White Christmas). And we finished several jigsaw puzzles — this year, they were all model train-related (with some touches of blue).

And we capped it all off on New Year's Day with the traditional black eyed peas and cornbread.

We still have all the Christmas decorations up — probably won't take them down until next weekend. And today is the hubby's birthday — so we'll still be celebrating for a while yet. Fun, but I think I'm just about ready for some normal life again.

Blue Monday was originally hosted by Smiling Sally.
Now that Sally has left us,
Jeanne at Backyard Neighbor is doing the honors.

To see more offerings, or to participate yourself,
please head on over to her blog.

Also linking up with Our World Tuesday

A Brand New Year!

Happy 2017, everyone!