December 15th, 2025
mellicious: blinky holiday lights (holiday lights gif)
posted by [personal profile] mellicious at 09:03pm on 15/12/2025 under , , , , , ,
I mentioned that it was supposed to get down to freezing last night, but I don't think it did - upper 30s, maybe, though, which is still pretty chilly by our standards. We do usually get a freeze or two (or sometimes more) but it's usually later in the winter when that happens. (Is it even technically winter yet? I think not, come to think of it!)

I was off today and I only ventured out to go to the credit union because we are trying to close out the very last one of my mother's trust accounts. (Some of you who remember me from way back may remember hearing about this looooong ago - my mom died in early 2007, I believe, so darn near 20 years ago.) We had to do some thinking (and some querying of my sister) to figure all this out - at the time Mama died, my sister and her ex were getting or had just gotten divorced, and my mother had been very determined that my ex-brother-in-law should not be able to get his hands on any of her money. Which is what resulted in a trust so strong that that we're still trying to jailbreak the last money out of it at this late date, even though I'm the executor. (With help from the CU, we think we've got it figured out. We just need the right paperwork!)

I'm still half-sick, although I've been coughing off and on for almost two weeks and so I'm bound to be near the end of this cycle, I hope. We did manage to go try that Mexican restaurant that we hadn't been to before and it was really good. (I may go eat leftover fajitas soon, come to think of it!)
December 14th, 2025
mellicious: Quote from Buffy the Vampire Slayer's 1st episode: "The earth is doomed." (doomed)
posted by [personal profile] mellicious at 05:34am on 14/12/2025 under , , , , , ,
Currently reading: Wicked

I used to think Wicked was hard going, the first couple of times I read it, but I guess I've got the hang of it now - I'm blowing right on through. (I'm not to the Kiamo Ko part yet, though, so I might be premature in saying that!)

I think I mentioned that I was reading the new Jenny Colgan - The Secret Christmas Library - and I ended up liking that one a lot. Very entertaining. I read a couple of holiday-themed romance novellas that I dug out of my collection - I'm in the holiday mood, I guess!

This morning I was reading an October Daye book - I'm blanking out on the name of it, but it's the one where we find out Stacy's real identity - but I stopped because it's pretty depressing and I decided I wasn't in the mood for that. (It's right on the tip of my tongue - Be the Serpent, is that it? It's late - or early, depending on your POV, and I'm not really all here right now.)

Maybe I should go to bed, actually. We're supposed to have a cold front - it's been 70-ish but it's supposed to drop to somewhere around freezing by tonight. By Texas Gulf Coast standards, that's like a blizzard.


Mood:: 'tired' tired
December 13th, 2025
mellicious: I call this the "boom de yada" song, I don't know its actual name (boomdeyada)
posted by [personal profile] mellicious at 01:58am on 13/12/2025 under , , , , ,
I'm not doing so well at Holidailies - well, I've done a few entries, but it's already the 13th and I've done (pause while I go and count) five whole (short) entries. In my defense, I've been sickly, and it just seems not to be going away. Rob has recovered much better than I have.

We were talking idly about going to see
Hamnet tomorrow, but really I intend to sleep all day, and the city holiday parade is also tomorrow - it's not impossible to get out during it, because it only goes down the main road and so you can get out by the back ways. But I bet we don't. We probably will go and get the fajitas that we put off last week - that will be Sunday, though.

(We can still go see Hamnet later, anyway - I assume it will still be around!)
December 8th, 2025
mellicious: I call this the "boom de yada" song, I don't know its actual name (boomdeyada)
posted by [personal profile] mellicious at 07:30pm on 08/12/2025 under , , , ,
50 Greatest Beatles Songs

I have definite opinions about the Beatles, especially because I was born in 1960 and so by the time I got old enough to have even the vaguest opinions about pop music, the Beatles were always there. I don't know that I even especially liked them, most of the time, when I was in elementary school, etc., but they were inescapable.

I basically derived this list by going down the list linked above and going "no no yes no" (etc.) - like I said, I have definite opinions. So out of the fifty on the list linked above, this is the ones I said yes to (in the order they were originally listed - I'm not going so far as to try to figure out whether I rank Eleanor above Lucy or anything!):

-- She's Leaving Home
-- A Day in the Life
-- Strawberry Fields Forever
-- Abbey Road Medley (or as I still think of it, "You never give me your money," because that's how it starts!)
-- Ticket to Ride (with the unfashionable caveat that I always thought Karen Carpenter's version was better)
-- Blackbird
-- Norwegian Wood
-- Hey Jude
-- Across the Universe
-- Let It Be
-- Eleanor Rigby
-- Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
-- Nowhere Man


December 7th, 2025
mellicious: just your basic burnt-orange longhorn silhouette (Texas Longhorn)
posted by [personal profile] mellicious at 10:48pm on 07/12/2025 under , , , , , ,
I'm reading The Secret Christmas Library. (I'm a sucker for Jenny Colgan, what can I say.) It's a sequel to The Christmas Book Hunt, which came out last year and was a novella, I believe. I'm going to be interested to see where this one goes, because so far I have no idea. Well, I assume they'll find whatever it is they're looking for and there will be a romance involved, or possibly two. Past that, nada.

I just remembered to look to see if Texas got a bowl bid and they did, although not a terribly exciting one (Citrus Bowl, NYE vs. Michigan) - at least we'll be favored, I assume!

Y'all, my hand is finally getting better and now I have a cold, which I definitely got from Rob because his symptoms are a day or so ahead of mine. It's fairly mild, but coughing and sneezing are just not fun. (We were going to go eat fajitas for dinner and I cancelled because I didn't think the other customers would appreciate the hacking cough!)

Oh, the other thing I've been reading was Lord of the Rings. I'm almost done but I abandoned it temporarily for the one above - it's not like I don't know how LotR ends. 


December 6th, 2025
mellicious: blinky holiday lights (holiday lights gif)
I was so busy talking about my car getting stolen, earlier this week*, that I forgot to talk about the other thing that happened to me, and that was that I had a fall at work. I hate admitting to this because it makes me feel like an old person, but then I am an old person, relatively speaking - well, I'm Medicare-eligible as of a few months ago, anyway. I don't really think the fall had anything to do with being old, in particular - I was picking up at closing time - somebody left a pair of shoes, for god's sake, on the gym floor (what, did they leave barefooted?) and so I was holding the shoes and I kicked a basketball out of the way, and then I lost my balance and went down and landed on one wrist. It could've been way worse, nothing was broken, but my left hand is still pretty sore two weeks later. Also, since I was out in the middle of the gym floor and nobody else was there and I couldn't put weight on that hand, of course, I had to wait for somebody to come help me get up, which is extra-embarrassing. (That's the part that really makes me feel old.)

Also, since I'm left-handed, I couldn't even really write for several days, except right-handed, which came out looking eerily like a 7-year-old's handwriting. Typing worked ok, and driving was mostly ok, I think because driving is mostly a right-handed skill anyway. (I'm actually sort of ambidextrous for a lot of things, but writing is not one of them, clearly.)



*The theft was not earlier this month, it was a couple of months ago, now.

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