Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Musings for a Feb 27th

I live in a place where winter is snowy and cold and I am ok with that. Winter is supposed to be cold, right? But, this year has been colder than most. The snow that came down in December is still here, that means it has remained mostly below freezing for a long time.

Perhaps that is why February, the shortest month of the year, seems to go on forever. My  joints ache for warmer weather, my dry hands itch for warm sunshine. I am tired of wearing boots.

We took a mini vacation to sunny St. George, Utah at the beginning of the month, but the beautiful weather turned for the worse and it actually snowed while we were in Zion National Park. I didn't even bring my big coat, so I was not happy. Maybe we brought the weather with us. But we didn't do it on purpose.


Some people around here (my children included) pretend it isn't really winter. They wear light jackets and Toms because they know they will only be outside for 2 seconds as they run from their car to work or the bus to school. But, not me, I take my dog to the park every day for exercise. We spend about an hour there walking and playing with a ball. In case you haven't experienced this, an hour in temperatures below 20 degrees Fahrenheit is a long hour. I have a good winter coat and warm boots that I love made by Keen, but it is still cold.

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Ok, ok, I know, you don't want to hear about me being cold. I know.

So, imagine my joy when I realized this morning that there are only 2 MORE DAYS OF  FEBRUARY!!

Never before have I been so glad to see March. March in Utah means melting snow and warming temperatures. It also means a lot of mud tracked onto my kitchen floor, but oh well.
Hooray for the end of February. Farewell and good riddance!

Ok, I admit it, I am just wasting time while I procrastinate taking the dog out.

Wednesday, January 16, 2013

The story of the lost blog

I used to have a blog. But I lost it.
It was a cute little blog about my life and random stuff I wanted to talk about it. But then I started talking about really random planning and sustainability stuff that was too geeky for normal readers. So I started another blog, http://urbinsanity.wordpress.com/ where I could be geeky all I wanted and my family wouldn't feel any obligation to read it. I still posted to my other blog from time to time.
The problem was it was linked to my old google account, so I had to always log out of gmail and log into the other account to post stuff. Which was a pain. There seemed to be absolutely no way to switch the blog over to my new email. Google said NO, absolutely not, it is impossible.
Just a side note. I love google, but COME ON!!
So, I got super busy and I never had time to write about stuff anyway and after a while I almost completely forgot all about my little blog.

Time passed, things changed, now I have time and a slight inclination to write about my family and silly stuff that people that actually know me might care about. So, I went looking for my little blog, but it is nowhere to be found.
It would help if I could remember its name. It would also help if I could remember the password to my other google account. But I can't, and now I am starting to worry that either it never existed or it has been deleted from the archives.
Which would be lame.
But after much deliberation I found it here: http://lifeofdemi.blogspot.com/
Sooooo
I guess I will start over, with Words of Demi. I thought about calling it Demi Words, but that makes it sound like I am only going to use very small words. Which maybe is an ok idea.

I bet I will make it cute. Sometime.
Demi