Day 10 - Indefinitely Stranded at Home & Darth Righteous

It took some effort, but Steph and I refused to stay in and made it out to Youngblood Gallery and the Righteous Room. We met up with Aldo and Mike and had funny conversations, music, brownies, rehab, and art. These are my favorite photos from the night, sadly, taken in the bathroom at the Righteous Room. I have now decided that the bar will be forever known as the Darth Righteous.

The art at Youngblood was interesting, the theme was animals, but not Audubon watercolors, rather contemporary abstracts and animals representing the conflicts and issues people normally experience.

So it turns out that I could have gone on that ski trip with my family. It's looking as though we may be out of school until much later this week. I didn't go skiing because it's the second week of school, can't miss that, and here I sit. I've made a good day of it so far. I took a walk at 8:30 this morning and socialized with my new neighbors. We were busy assessing who had the most vodka and what time it would be reasonable for us to start drinking. Shannon and Jeff drove over (he's quite the professional driver - really) and we drove up to Dunkin Donuts, mostly so Jeff would have an excuse to try some donuts in the road. It was fun, scary and impressive. Though the car seemed out of control it was clear Jeff knew what he was doing. It sure looks pretty with all the snow everywhere. It was so bright in the middle of the night it was spooky. My guess is that the city lights that normally make the cloud cover glow was then bouncing off the snow and making it even brighter. Spectacular.

My neighbors just brought me some chili for dinner and I will continue knitting, building furniture, doing laundry and lastly, I'll take down the Christmas tree. I know, it's the second week of January, but I missed the "Christmas" snow, and the tree is my favorite decoration of all. If I could leave it up all year and change it for each holiday I'd be so happy.