Bracing Against the Season

Posted on | 3 years, 4 months ago, in the early evening | No Comments

I seem to be going into hibernating mode, which isn’t to say that I’m sleeping all the time — but some weird mammalian hind-brain impulse is prompting me to indulge in obsessive nesting behavior, as if I’m shoring up my life against the dark, cold months to come.

I swapped out all the warm-weather clothes for cooler-weather clothes; I went through our storage closet and located/cleaned/sorted out all the winter hats, scarves, gloves, jackets; I cleaned out our bathroom cabinets and I threw away all the expired/unused stuff; I did likewise in the kitchen, and I gave the refrigerator the same treatment; I hit up the three grocery stores nearby, figured out what stuff was cheapest where, and stocked up; I bagged up an entire Sentra-trunk-full of clothes to either take to Goodwill or sell at the secondhand shops; and I even (finally) took my car to the shop for an oil/filter/miscellaney change and servicing.

I still need to change the cat’s litterbox, but since the cat herself is sitting on my lap right this moment and indicating, via purrs and claws, that I’d damned well better not move quite yet, I suppose it’ll wait. Except for this one last point (which I’ll remedy later on this afternoon), I mostly feel like I’m ready for winter.

Tomorrow, my sister and her husband will be arriving for a Phantom Wedding,* so this means a weekend of playing tour guide, which is fine. I enjoy playing tour guide, and it looks like the weather isn’t going to be too bad for their visit. They’re only staying over the weekend, so it won’t mean a big fat chunk of time out of my productivity schedule; and perhaps we can sneak in a little bit of winter-clothes-shopping time while they’re here. One way or another, it’ll be a hoot.

Sorry if this is less than sparkling. I’m exhausted, and I feel like I’ve been running myself ragged for the last two days, yet I have nothing to talk about.


* A Not-Wedding — that is, a wedding that was canceled too late for the guests to get their plane tickets refunded.

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