most of my family and many of my friends live on the east coast and have recently been pummeled with true winter weather: snow, ice, frozen pipes (my brother's pipes froze right at the well, right after he lost power). the winter out here this year has me scratching my head. what winter? it's been so mild. we had a douzy of a snow storm the day after MLK day and a couple of wicked cold spells where our heat was always running, but aside from that it's felt like an extension of fall. or a cold indian summer-- we haven't even had much rain.
today, however, we were living in a cloud. it was most dreary. it wasn't raining, it was ... mist sheeting. we could see it coming in waves while driving home from the grocery store. the kind of rain/mist/steam room that gets your clothes and pants and shoes all kinds of damp but never quite wet. veritable trapped, claustrophobic winter weather.
B and i went to a giant asian grocery store. i stocked up on rice noodles, miso soup mix, golden kiwi, gen-mai cha, sencha green tea. i looked into getting some matcha tea but it was too spendy. today was an absolute perfect day for tea and slippers and television. so there.
presidents' day- i have it off. one of the perks of my job...