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Jan. 8th, 2010 05:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
serynThings I'll miss about the holidays...
Things I don't miss about the holidays...
I'm actually reading a Kitty Norville book, from the library, which tells you how anxious I am for my books that are still in pre-order to be released.
I've been watching Hotel Babylon, which is okay but a little moralizing and slutty (which is an odd combination) and I started Were The World Mine... but I'm not all that keen (both via Netflix streaming) .
I'm working on a replacement gift, holiday knitting has spilled over into the me!knitting time. I'm never going to have warm feet at this rate.
I took a picture of the Christmas tree policy our building has. It's amusing because several of the words are randomly scare-quoted, like "live" "tree" and "holiday". I took one look and wondered if it had been a MadLib... I might be willing to share this but not until I've obfuscated the identifying parts.
Someone today wrote and said there was an earthquake in California... I didn't feel it, and California's big, so that's fairly likely. It had the usual comment, "I could never live somewhere there are earthquakes!" The email went on to say that New Orleans is out of water because of the cold and the plastic handles on her snow shovels have all cracked completely off. There has not been an earthquake where I felt the need to seek shelter since I moved here 15 years ago. But it snows every damned year. Who is the idiot now? No matter where you live, there is something truly sucky beyond your control. Floods, tornados, hurricanes, landslides, earthquakes, blizzards, drought, hail... It's hard to imagine anywhere that humans can comfortably habitate without risk. What really bothers me is that California has earthquake retrofitting for almost every building... so even if there is a noticible quake, it's not likely to kill as many people as sitting on their hands and doing jack did for New Orleans flood control.
That would be something else I'm wishing was over already... it takes a couple weeks for the residual "holiday closeness" to wear off and family to stop calling and telling me I'm doing my whole life wrong.
- soy nog. Stuff's fabulous, costs less than the organic nog with real dairy, and unless you open the carton, it's good for months in the 'fridge. I microwave my mugs full.
- the expectation that there will be feasting... my SO's already back on his scanty breakfast, "I've gone out for lunch", and "Why did you make so much food" dinners. I've been hungry all day because there wasn't anything easy to fix and I was already working on a big thing (kettle of stew).
Things I don't miss about the holidays...
- everything being full up. No room at restaurants on the minimal days they're actually open. No room in parks or on beaches (it's freaking winter, where did you idiots come from?)
- really pitiful veg
- queuing with a stack of heavy boxes
I'm actually reading a Kitty Norville book, from the library, which tells you how anxious I am for my books that are still in pre-order to be released.
I've been watching Hotel Babylon, which is okay but a little moralizing and slutty (which is an odd combination) and I started Were The World Mine... but I'm not all that keen (both via Netflix streaming) .
I'm working on a replacement gift, holiday knitting has spilled over into the me!knitting time. I'm never going to have warm feet at this rate.
I took a picture of the Christmas tree policy our building has. It's amusing because several of the words are randomly scare-quoted, like "live" "tree" and "holiday". I took one look and wondered if it had been a MadLib... I might be willing to share this but not until I've obfuscated the identifying parts.
Someone today wrote and said there was an earthquake in California... I didn't feel it, and California's big, so that's fairly likely. It had the usual comment, "I could never live somewhere there are earthquakes!" The email went on to say that New Orleans is out of water because of the cold and the plastic handles on her snow shovels have all cracked completely off. There has not been an earthquake where I felt the need to seek shelter since I moved here 15 years ago. But it snows every damned year. Who is the idiot now? No matter where you live, there is something truly sucky beyond your control. Floods, tornados, hurricanes, landslides, earthquakes, blizzards, drought, hail... It's hard to imagine anywhere that humans can comfortably habitate without risk. What really bothers me is that California has earthquake retrofitting for almost every building... so even if there is a noticible quake, it's not likely to kill as many people as sitting on their hands and doing jack did for New Orleans flood control.
That would be something else I'm wishing was over already... it takes a couple weeks for the residual "holiday closeness" to wear off and family to stop calling and telling me I'm doing my whole life wrong.
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Date: 2010-01-09 03:15 am (UTC)It snows about 1 year out of 3 here. This is the first time we've got to use the snow shovel. :D
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Date: 2010-01-10 12:08 am (UTC)It really bothers me when people say that, because it means when there is an earthquake those people are going to stand back pointing and laughing at all the dead bodies and maimed people.
Everywhere Americans live has good and bad points. It's tragic when people die because of the bad points, but never something you can blame someone over. Many people don't have a choice about where they live (because of jobs, family, health, whatever). And some people choose certain risks over others.
I personally dread tornados. I never want to live somewhere that gets them. I'm also afraid of avalanches, but that's not really a concern anywhere that has jobs.
I try to be tolerant of where people want to live, but am extremely defensive when someone says that California isn't fit for human habitation. Compared to New Orleans? They've got to be kidding.