On- Sort Of

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January, that blessed month of ho-hum and grind.  A relief after December.  We are back to school.  Back to work.  November viruses finally vanquished.  Coffee pot perking and tea pot whistling.


Time for:

• Quiet, gray days of drizzling freezing rain.  
• Studying.
• Eating down the cupboards of all the odd holiday ingredients that were left unused. 
• Music substituting for sunrises because it's still dark when the day must start. 
• Studying.
• Stews and soups for lunch. 
• Ginger cookies.
• The gym instead of freezing walks. 
• Reading novels because it's dark by 4:30 p.m.  
• Studying.
• Watching Lord of the Rings, the extended version.  
• Starting over through the Bible. 
• Stir-crazy children leaping on furniture. 
• Fixing furniture.
• Studying some more.
• Quiet hobby-ing.
• Wondering what the neighbor's heating bill is after listening to her unit crank through the night with nary a pause.

I really like January.  I's just her sister- February- that I'm not crazy about.


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