80-20 Living: Where is the Sweater Weather?

Hi there. The weather has been abnormally warm around here, especially considering that frozen iguanas have been falling out of trees in Florida. It is supposed to be 78 degrees today, but the Weather channel tells me it will be cold on Wednesday, only 59 as a high. But that seems to be an aberration because highs will be back in the 70s by the end of the week. It sounds ridiculous to complain about gorgeous weather when most of the rest of the country is freezing, but at the rate we're going I won't wear even half of my sweaters before packing them away again for the hot season. Oh well, this is why we desert dwellers endure 100+ degree summers.

We are one week into the new year and I have had varied success so far with listening. I have been working on paying more attention, and putting down the phone, when having conversations with the GH. In fact we have even eaten together at the dining room table more than once so far this year. I hope to make this a more regular practice, especially now that Christmas has been put away and the table is back to its normal location. As part of that effort I have a secondary goal of keeping that table free of clutter. We shall see how that goes.

I have also been paying close attention to Fiona the last few days and I think we are nearing the end. She went in this morning to have her abdomen drained and unless there is a remarkable turnaround in her behavior it is probably time to say goodbye. She has been listless and slow and seems to have lost her enjoyment of most things. I don't want to keep her alive just to be miserable. This is the absolute worst thing about owning pets. I feel like I'm getting ahead of myself, but I also don't want to delude myself about what is happening.

And now onto less depressing things, the clothes. I only worked for three and a half days last week so only four outfits to share.

January 3