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215.9 - Up 1.5 overnight. It's all good though. Great workout, dinner out, and peanut M&Ms at the movies. We saw Nosferatu beause it was one we could get tickets to and Ron REALLY wanted to go to the movies. We went to a later showing and I am paying the price for it today! UGH.... We weren't back home until 12:30 AM. I didn't manage to get into bed until 2:00 as dogs needed time to run about and pee before re-settling into normal late night behavior. 8:00 AM came way too quickly.

I ran off with Blitz to the vet for his collection and then straight on to a 2 hour handling class for Bug. Both dogs (and I) are happy to be home. I am fading quickly, but there is still much to be done!

Sounds like we are all having some nice moments this holiday week. Things are perhaps not scintillating, but very peaceful here. Except that my Mom seems to have contracted norovirus. My nephew's family had a round of it last week, and in retrospect, maybe should have skipped the Christmas visit. But who can say for sure. No one in our house has fallen sick, so looks like we dodged that bullet.

We did go see A Complete Unknown and enjoyed it a lot. This film and Conclave are 2 of the more satisfying movies I've seen lately. In the interest of not busting through the high end of my weight range, I had some cottage cheese and pineapple before we left, thereby greatly limiting the amount of popcorn consumed. That, and putting the cookies back in the freezer instead of on the kitchen table, helped my weight move into the middle of my range. Feels good.

No big plans today. I am going to clear the dining room table and living room coffee table of Christmas remnants like gifts and special dishes that need to be put away. I have some pants that need to be hemmed, might get to that. But what I am most hoping to make time for is to read a book, perhaps in one sitting today. What a luxury. I have several books sitting in the read pile, but I may start with a Christmas gift: James. It is the Huck Finn story told from the point of view of the enslaved man Jim.

Today is mild (high 30s) and sunny. The snow is melted. This is only the 3rd sunny day this month. It will cloud over tomorrow and be mild (for Minnesota) for the next week. It is so dreary these overcast days. The sun hardly makes it over the horizon, even at noon it can look like dawn instead of high noon. Time to start planning our short February get away and hold tight to the knowledge that I will be free to leave these dark days next winter whenever I want.

The mothballs are only in the engine compartment - peppermint balls inside the car where the seats are. So hopefully only exposure to rodents who try to go there. But boy I didn't realize they were that bad!

119.8 after appetizers and dinner out last night with extended family.

A nice afternoon and evening yesterday got me out of my funk. We didn't get home until about 9:30 so we were up until midnight - very late for us. We watched a couple of episodes of the rather romantic novel-like show Virgin River. Humboldt County is where you are Diane S, correct? Beautiful scenery in that show.

Today we do laundry and start packing to return to Florida tomorrow. Like all Christmases we have more to take back than we came with (since my gifts for others were shipped here). I may have to leave a few things to take back after the summer as we only have carry-on bags. DH is going to lunch with several of his friends from high school or earlier. I will drive him to one of their homes 1/2 hour from here and on their way back from lunch he will be dropped off to pick up the rental car to get to the airport tomorrow. Likely a shared dinner out tonight to avoid leftovers. I feel like we planned food relatively well to avoid having too much to throw out.

This afternoon I have to return all the stinky anti-rodent stuff to my car (mothballs, peppermint balls, dryer sheets). It did air out enough to be bearable but I can see why it repels the animals. The car was pretty pungent at first.

Have a scintillating Saturday!

Maybe a touch of SAD with holiday funk. It is dark by about 4 here, nearly 1.5 hours earlier than Florida. It is a bit later in the morning there before it gets light but not by a lot - the day is definitely longer. And of course it is much easier to get out into the light during the day when it is warm.