ready to go plenty early

The shire's potluck feast is tonight. Since he as the day off and we were working from home we are all dressed and ready and the spinach pie is done an hour before time to go, so I am actually taking a moment to post something.

I am loving winter, it is so good to have snow again, and the sledding hill I created by piling all of the snow from the walking paths at the edge of our small hill is fun. It will be even more fun when we get around to acquiring better sleds than a cardboard box in a plastic bag. However, I feel a weird disconnect from the fact that, for so many other people, it is nearly Christmas. I gave up celebrating that holiday years ago, when I had a Jewish boyfriend. It didn't make sense when neither of us was Christian. So I don't spend time stressing about shopping for the perfect gift (heck, I never shopped when I did celebrate that holiday, because if I didn't make it myself I am not going to give it away. I also forget that others are stressing. Therefore it was quite a surprise to me when lord_kjar came home from a trip to a post office (picking up a registered letter) and grocery store grumpy, because the roads were full of people to stressed to drive properly, and the store was full of people too stressed to be civil.

Silly people. Stay home and relax, and don't go shopping...