i love winter, granola, and anything creamy...

 

It snowed all day today, which I loved even though it meant canceling my trip to IKEA with Bonnie tomorrow. Carrie and I took down the Christmas decorations at church, shoveled our drive, and was going through lesson 29 of my Russian language CDs when all of a sudden, out of the blue, my laptop made a horrible noise and went on the fritz! I could not get the thing to reboot. (Panic sets in! am I going to have to send it in and be without it for a week? when was the last time I backed up my files?...acck!)  

But never fear, trusty techie hubby got on the phone with a Dell techie in El Salvador, and after an hour --voila! Here I am on my laptop again (yay). It's too bad in some ways...it might have been good for me to go without it for a while. ;-p

Tonight I made shrimp scampi for the first time. It was yummy, but not as yummy as my sister-in-law Mary's! (Mary, please hand over your recipe. :-) We are in our last week of good, fattening eating; trying to get rid of all the "bad" stuff in the fridge and cupboard before getting back to healthier eating and doing some fasting this month. I dread it and look forward to it at the same time...but, I've been wanting to do some experimenting with diet to try to get a hold on my allergies, so there is some extra incentive. My mom and sister-in-law are both big into the health food and alternative medicine scene, so I've asked them for some advice in that regard; we'll see what they suggest. I think my biggest dread is possibly giving up milk products and wheat...this would be especially "bummerish" since I just made a big batch of granola on Sunday afternoon!

Well, I think Rob and I are going to hunker down and relax for a little bet yet before bedtime...maybe Flash Forward is on...

Good night, snowy world...