Snapshots of my life

[angela_o]

It's November 14th and it's sunny and 78 degrees outside. Let me repeat that for you. *78 degrees*. That's just fundamentally wrong. It's November. It's supposed to be grey and overcast with a damp chill in the air that makes you want to wear cozy sweaters and eat comfort food. Not beautiful and in the upper 70s and shirtsleeves weather that makes you ponder last minute trips to the beach. My calendar tells me that Thanksgiving is next Thursday, but my body refuses to believe.

Is the weather wacky for everyone else as well? Unseasonably warm perhaps? Not to mention dry? We're under drought conditions here in central NC. I wasn't the world's best about regular car washes, but now at least I have "being environmentally aware" as a plausible excuse for the layers of sediment attaching themselves to my vehicle. :)

In other news, I ordered the last of the kids Christmas and/or birthday presents last night. (The boys both have December birthdays.) I may live up to my vow to have all my holiday shopping done by Thanksgiving. Online catalog shopping in the wee hours of the morning is a boon to the modern woman.

Comments

[janajoh.livejournal.com]

Maybe the drought will be over soon because it's raining here. I'm trying to send it your way because, well, rainy days and Mondays always get me down.

I haven't even started on my Christmas shopping unless window shopping counts. Malls after Thanksgiving - yuck!

[cookie2697.livejournal.com]

Actually I do feel like it's uncommonly warm here. Mind you, it IS California... But I remember quite a few cold and rainy Halloweens. I remember quite a few disgustingly hot Halloweens as well. But today I wore a 3/4 sleeve polo to work, and I was hot and gross all day. And I went on a walk during my afternoon break and regretted it later. So yeah, it feels like LA here to me right now. And I want it colder, dammit. I did LA. I'm not there now, so would the world please stop acting like it? LOL!

[tasyfa.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on the shopping accomplishment! Halifax was in fact the warmest place in Canada today. O_o It's very strange. Esp when you factor in that this day last year is when we got 50 cm of snow and ice!!!

[michak.livejournal.com]

I can understand about the weather being wacky...over here, one day it's 17 degrees and then the next minute it is 4 degrees. The crazy thing is that last year, we already had snow in Ottawa at this time so I sort of miss complaining about the vast amounts of snow I see outside, *sighs*

Force, I haven't even started shopping for Christmas yet but I did start on my card list though. I'm getting there slowly...

[kieyra.livejournal.com]

*waves*

So, I have a huge favor to ask of you. OKay, it's not like, money huge or loaning me a kidney, but it's stil a favor. (And I do appreciate your offer of catwatching services.)

We cannot find a lawn maintenance service to save our life. I mean, someone to cut the lawn and rake the leaves. That's it. Things are still a little hectic and TB's working 10-hour days and we don't own a lawnmower just yet. Every place we call says they don't cover this area.

The main problem is we have no local phonebook yet (and probably won't since we went with Vonage), so here's my favor: Do you have a current yellow pages, and would you be willing to look up lawn maintenance and shoot me a few phone numbers of places that seem to cover this area?

Or can you recommend someone?

My alternate plan is going to a library and checking out the phonebook there (bellsouth's online yellow page access just sucks), but we're down to one legal car at the moment (one of them had the sideview mirror broken off during transit).

Er, thanks in advance. You can email me at kieyra@gmail.com if you want to take this out of comments. :)

[kieyra.livejournal.com]

So this isn't normal? It was really cold there (for me) for a bit, now it's back to "November in Florida" temps. I guess it will cool down tomorrow, allegedly.

Actually, I keep thinking of things to mention to you when I'm out and about, like "Hey, I noticed Harris Teeter *is* open till 2am" and that kind of thing, but I'm just now (today) getting a chance to actually LJ again. And Cheesecake Factory is open now (and SuperTarget!). And I think the combo TruValue Hardware/Pharmacy on 54 is hilarious. (That said, I've gone there multiple times now.)