Day 65........first flurries of snow on Day 66.

Day 65........first flurries of snow on Day 66.

3 Girls and 4 Suitcases.

When I first began writing the blogs, it was to give everyone reading them a bit of insight into how daily life is, here in my North American adventure. I hope that I've done that, evoking a few smiles, giggles and perhaps some tears at times. If I am inviting you into my reality, then hopefully that's included my emotions as much as anything else.
I've given you an insight into :
The rules of banking and mobile phones (silly and annoying);
The cost and taste of cheese (expensive and not sharp enough);
The weather (much more predictable than Edinburgh. They said there would be flurries this morning and there are);
Just how little I need to be comfortable in my new home (I won't write the very short list but it does include 3 beds and 1 sofa....and the luxury non-necessity that is my coffee maker)
....and a few more things.
But I write this blog as much for myself as for others, tho'. It helps me to stay mindful about what is going on today (or should I say 'yesterday' because the blog tends to be a day behind) and grounds me.
Right now, Alison has her new Taylor Swift music playing loudly from the basement whilst she attempts to redo her collage of photos and memories on the wall. We are finding it difficult to keep them stuck, probably due to the cold down there. Maybe it will be easier once we put the heating on....which may happen today.
Yesterday?.....'cause the blog is for then, after all.
I spent a few hours in the library and luckily remembered to not only make myself a remedy mix containing Beech (because I've been affected by the habits of others) but I had remembered to stick it in my bag because the 'snorer' sat down at the next comfy chair along-EEK and GROAN. But, with only a few 'deliberate' noises made, to stir him, I eventually employed the mindfulness technique of simply naming the noise 'snoring'  and continued working. Just in time, I remembered to do that tho' because I was all set to pack up (very noisily) before I did.
The rain never stopped pouring. It just varied in its intensity. I went to the store, on the way back from the library to pick up some candy for the wee 'tricksters' that I expected to be plagued with, after 5pm but I will now have to eat my way through it because we didn't get a single trick or treater despite my lit pumpkin, at the window, inviting them to knock. I think that the rain probably put parents off spending much time out and because there are not many little people (that I've noticed) in the surrounding houses, nobody passed out door except people scurrying to get home, underneath the shelter of their wet brollys.
Ali went out, the back of 7pm, to a school-friends party and so I spent the entire evening snuggled under a fleecy blanket watching back to back episodes of Once Upon a Time. I was reluctant to sneak out of the blanket, even to refill my wine glass....lol.
So, that's that. Halloween is over for 2014 and no doubt the Christmas decorations will begin to appear over the next couple of weeks, if Halloween was anything to go by.
I baked the pumpkin seeds and munched merrily on them (thinking that they were incredibly chewy but okay) until Bill informed me that it was actually Sunflower seeds that Fox Mulder chewed and not Pumpkin seeds....'cause they're poisonous.OOPS-he was kidding about the poisoned, of course but I did have a good giggle to myself about my mistake.
On that note, I will close this and go throw the remaining pumpkin seeds in the trash and make some lunch.
Love to all.
Lxx