Still chilling

Wed, 10 Dec 2025 18:04:21 GMT

It's still chilly here in the Bay Area, probably the longest its been this cold (mid-40s overnight and reaching only the mid-50s during the daytime, often with a sea breeze making it feel colder) in a long time. Our winters do get chilly, but never for this long, and not without several days of nonstop rain. Not that I'm complaining, just that this kind of weather tends to turn me into a sloth these days!

On the plus side, I've been getting a lot done both at work and at home lately, which is a nice change from the Q4 EVERYTHINGATONCE stress I usually get. On my Friday-Saturday shifts I managed to get to and finish a lot of the "I'll get to it later" report paperwork I usually never have time for, and now the bookkeeping office finally looks a lot less messy. And over the last few days, I've been catching up on not just house errands, daily words, blogging and book revision, but even a bit of frivolous music library nonsense, all without feeling stressed out about it! I'm certainly going to make use of this time while I have it!

We're close to finishing the Christmas shopping for the most part, we just need to gather the last packages coming in, wrap up a few things, and mail them on their way. The post office is a bit more of a walk than normal from our new place, but thankfully there's a cheap parking lot the next block over that never gets completely full during the day. All told, it's been a rather laid back season this year, and that's fine by me. Even though our numbers are up in a good way at the store, it's not as chaotic as it normally is. Although I'm sure the next few weeks are going to see an uptick enough to change that...

Hope everyone's having a good week!

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Still chilling