Even though the temperatures have been veering between Cold and Not Cold, I am now officially in Indoor Mode, with no yardwork, a reluctance to go out and run errands, and an overwhelming urge to lie buried in blankets on my couch and not move. I will read, I will watch TV, I will knit. I generally don't fiddle around online because my laptop is usually in my purse and it would just require far too much effort for me to get up and retrieve it -- although it does help keep me warm, I grant you that.
(Add to this, NeighborGirl and I went to see Devil Inside on Friday night and it was such a dreadful production -- I mean, bad writing, bad shooting, bad production value, just BAD -- that I'm seriously reconsidering the theater as a bad risk and possibly not paying gobs of money to see anything there ever again. I reckon this resolution will last until the next time the Young Prince begs me to take him to some new release.)
But I love this aspect of winter, y'all. I get caught up on so much of the slothful "free time" things I like to do. This weekend I finished the Dark Materials trilogy this weekend, which was an interesting read, both in a writerly educational way and from the "Wow, dude's got an ax to grind" perspective.
NYAB was kindly indulgent and joined me in watching a lot of British stuff on Netflix. Several hours of Father Brown mysteries with Kenneth More, based on stories by the inestimable GK Chesterton. You want a study in incongruity, blast through some Chesterton and Pullman in rapid succession. (You'll also probably feel like a blundering neanderthal when it comes to manipulating the English language, but que sera sera -- see what I did there?)
The kid spent much of his time apart, watching his own DVDs and being astonishingly self-sufficient -- even more astonishingly, he was downright helpful and good-natured about wrapping up chores and pitching in when we did pull him away from Tron or Peter Pan or whatever he was doing. I like that boy, you know?
Life is good, y'all.
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