It's been trying to snow all damned day. I have a feeling it will eventually succeed. 
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Best headline of the day:

France wrestles with the line between seduction, harassment

You don't say? That's a wrestling match that's been going on a long time now.  I'll be sure to let you know when they've got a clear winner.

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I really want to make this.  I am not going to, but I sort of want to.



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Tomorrow is the 70th wedding anniversary of Elizabeth II and Prince Phillip. 70 years.  That is a lot of years. That is a lot of married.

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I am hosting a Make, Bake, and Take cookie party again this year. I started two years ago because I thought it might be fun to be involved in a Christmas activity where I was not in charge of EVERY DAMNED THING+THE CLEANING UP.  While looking for inspiration, I ran into this simple step-by-step guide to really cute cookies.



They are simple the way that sub-atomic particles are simple, but they are super cute, nonetheless. Also, I often find the issue with heavily iced cookies is that the icing is too sweet or really unpleasant to the taste or both. There must be a happy medium.
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Apparently the must-get must-give gift of the season is an electric vegetable spiralizer. 


It's so versatile! Not only does it spiralize your vegetables, but it turns your vegetables into spirals!  How have you lived this long without one? Are all your vegetables lumpen clumps?  

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Hubby is off to a week of business meetings in Montreal. Which is where they generally keep the snow.  I will miss him, but not enough to want to be where the serious snow is.

This guy's expression perfectly captures my feelings re: snow.

Thanks, spotify.  Now my husband has super easy access to all the crap music he likes to torture me with listen to.
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So yes! We went to the Corning Museum of Glass! It might sound boring to you, but (1) it's not and (2) it's totally not - there's beautiful stuff too!  They demonstrate, among other cool things, glass blowing, glass moulding, and glass breaking! Yeah, that's right - glass breaking.  If you've been doing it wrong all this time, they've got you covered. (As my readers will know, I am super geeky, and I'm married to a materials scientist, who is also super geeky,  so between to two of us, we have mad super geekery skilz.) 

The buildings themselves are beautiful and none too surprisingly incorporate a lot of windows. The grounds are beautiful too and would have been great to explore had it been less chilly. My favourite display was... the Christmas tree! It's comprised of over 2000 hand-blown ornaments and is very impressive.  I also really liked this Tiffany window, which is stunning. The gift shop, through which one must obviously exit, is huge and full of very pretty and very breakable stuff, much of which I'd like to own but none of which I bought. 

My only quibble with the place? Corning, whither the CorningWare/Pyrex? There was some mention of it, and I know you spun/sold a lot of it off, but COME ON! It's iconic! It's friggin' CorningWare. 

Anyway, if your are ever in the Corning part of the USA, make a visit.   Not only is the surrounding area picturesque and full of cows, but the museum is filled with fascinating objects. And glass. Lots of glass.

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Didn't do too much today  - it was dark and cold out and my get up and go had gotten up and left. Hard frost last night turned everything left in the garden to mush ( cuz, you know, it's NOVEMBER and you should have cleaned everything up A MONTH AGO!) so I helped get some of that cleaned up.  There is, not exactly unexpectedly, more to do. 

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I am going to go to bed. This being awake  stuff is for the birds.


 

I made roast beef today. With mushroom gravy.  I hadn't made roast beef in ages and ages and ages.  It was really good. Just sayin'

Weather was lovely all day but now it is cold.  Fie on winter! Fie, I say!

One 'bedroom,' 150 square feet, 275,000.00 pounds sterling.

Madness.  Utter madness.

In other news, it's too cold. Way too cold.

Oh my god, we're back again...(for the meta, natch)

It's November! And that means more frequent ramblings! YOU LUCKY PEOPLE!

Right. My computer broke. I mean, I turned it on and - nothing happened. And kept happening. No whirring, no purring, no demand for a password, nothing. So naturally, I unplugged it, plugged it back in again, fiddled with all the cables and wires, swore both colorfully and creatively, and then, when all else had failed, demanded my husband MAKE IT WORK RIGHT NOW! Said husband, while mostly awesome, was unable to comply, but very gallantly offered to drop it off at the local geekery on the way to work (in part, no doubt, to get away from the sweary demanding woman bashing aimlessly at her keyboard.)

One day, they said, maybe two. Three at the very most.

It took two weeks.

It was both upsetting and weirdly relaxing. But it came home last evening, started working the second I plugged it in, and the love affair was immediately rekindled.

We had 14 trick-or-treaters (did kids trick-or-treat during the Depression? If so, what did they get? Failed stock certificates? Apple cores? A rock? Two rocks? Embittered???? Must research this extensively when I have done absolutely everything else there is to do...) last night. This is, without exaggeration, more than we have had in the last 3 years combined.

It has been half-assedly snowing all day. No accumulation, but dammit! SNOW?!?!?! Now I am thinking about Christmas-y stuff. (Which is as depressing as fuck.)

I feel yucky. I think I've caught some bug. Yay! only not.

We haven't had one of these is days....