1. What’s a change you’d like or need to make this year? 

My eating habits. True that some of them just came from the holidays and all the parties and stuff but I got a little bad about eating twice a day and a little bit of snacking. Back to the grind! Yesterday, I met Ash for lunch so my overall eating window was maybe 3 hours. I am going to try to hold out today to get to a full 24 hours.

2. Break the ice, on thin ice, ice skating, tip of the iceberg, ice cold...which icy idiom applies to your life right now? Explain. 

Hmm, I’m going with ice cold for two reasons: one, it’s about to be cold and you know I hate winter. Two, I feel like my emotions are ice cold right now, to steel myself against the tough times right now. Is it really tough? No, not too bad. But I’m about to be insanely busy and stretched thin.

3. What’s a project you’ve been putting off? Will you get to it this month? This year?

Cleaning out drawers in the kitchen. We have a lot of them and half of them contain non-kitchen items. It’s art supplies and other random things we have gathered. They’re just too full and I am sure some of the junk can be tossed. I might get to it on a weekend this month but if nothing else, it’ll be a project for mid-March.

4. Of the fruits that grow well in winter which ones have you tried? Which is your favorite? 

pomegranates, clementines, persimmons, passion fruit, pears, grapefruit, lemons, pomelos, kumquats

I’ll go grapefruit #1, then clementines and probably pears. I am not sure I have ever had a pomelo or kumquat. I know I once inherited some persimmons from a neighbor and made a pretty tasty tart out of them.

5. What do you think it means to be courageous? 

To have the will and guts to pretty much accomplish all you want. Of course, that starts with having those goals. I see a lot of people today who’d rather sit and watch TV, smoke pot, not work. That’s the most cowardly thing I can imagine.

6. Insert your own random thought here. 

Well, Session began as normal yesterday, even though all government offices (and public schools) were closed due to the storm. It was MOSTLY just wind here; not too much rain. I don’t know what’s going on with weather lately and I’d rather not go to horrible ideas such as the earth changing and then following the rabbit hole of ideas that grow from having watched too many earth-ending movies. Speaking of, we did watch Leave The World Behind, which was… ok. Kind of interesting anyway. I don’t like end of the world type movies but this one at least had some cool ideas and good acting.

Much like our host, I too am still not in January. Maybe a little, as we have put all decor back into their boxes but it’s still waiting to go into storage; we need a couple more pieces of plywood to create shelves. I hope to get it done this weekend but eh. Dakota at least has an early soccer game, then Isaac, a haircut. Then we have nothing else going on. I remember this now: during Session, I really appreciate weekends and catch up on stuff, since it does NOT happen during the week! I won’t even leave until 6:45 tonight, then I’ll gather kids from various things and plop down in my chair, exhausted!