It is one today.
One as in...degrees.
On a scale of one to ten, however, this day would get a nine for looks; it's just dazzling out there! Bright, sunny, cloudless.
But, as far as temperature goes...well, lets just say if it was a blind date and this day showed up, I'd have excused myself to use the bathroom before the drinks arrived.
But, it has a wonderful sense of humor!
I realized this when I turned on my windshield wipers at 5:55 a.m. to get the dirty salt off the window and they made a move like they were going to start wiping and then gave up. Stuck to the windshield! It's only freakin December 10th!
But the sun, just gorgeous. My cats think it's July.
I had a partial day off today, so I spent it indoors watching Julie and Julia.
Sigh. Love, drama, comedy, life; Paris and New York, my two favorite cities. It was wonderful. I'm not sure it was supposed to make me cry, but it did as I am a huge sap and crying is a kind of sport for me. I cried because Julia Child is dead. I cried because she was so tall that it made it hard for her to find a husband, but when she did, he was so was sweet and wonderful like my own. I cried because I want to live in Paris in the 1950's! I cried because I want to write a book and I am too chicken shit to actually do it.
It made me want to marry Stanley Tucci and cook Bouef Bourginogne.
It is ironic that I have once again given up meat and dairy and virtually all things that make French cooking so wonderful, but there you have it.
I have not given up wine though. No!!! Not yet anyway.
So, instead of the delicious looking roast beef that is sitting in my fridge, I made myself a kind of veggie stew with leftover rice, roasted peppers and sundried tomatoes. It isn't half bad, but it isn't exactly what I was looking for.
I wanted to be ahead on my leaf turning this year; December, rather than January. After all, once January comes there is no denying that my forties loom large on the horizon. The 10's or the teens (what the heck will we call them?) is my decade to be 40-something and I intend to be fitter in this one than I was for those crazy, child-bearing 2000's.
So. Many, many veggies are on my plate and I have purchased the old lady facial set (at top dollar) to ward off those not so invisible lines on my face. I will not, however, be dying my hair. I've EARNED this gray, damn it! It is not going anywhere!
