Tom & Alissa

Happy chocolate day!

Seriously, though, I like Valentine’s Day. My mom and dad always made an effort to have it be a fun day for us and gave us gifts, and mom still sent Tom and I both a big bar of dark Lindt chocolate this year. Then again, I just like holidays. I think it makes the winter pass more rapidly.

I stood in front of my closet today trying to find an outfit that would keep the maximum amount of me dry, and surprisingly, finally settled on a longish thick skirt and my black boots. Those babies are awesome. I stepped in a whole lot of six-inch-deep slush puddles as I tried to get to my meeting at another office and my feet are still dry and cozy.

Our camera came yesterday; Tom is elated and shooting lots of pictures (I will, too, when I get my grubby fingers on it :D). It’s a lovely camera and it takes lovely pictures. The lens we got is quite heavy though . . . wrist pain after shooting for a little while. Looking forward to getting a slightly lighter lens. UV filters and such in the mail today. We are geeking out.

I want to write fiction, or at least stories. And I am having a nightmare of a time getting started. The whole working-all-the-time thing doesn’t help, but man, whoever drops stories into human heads needs to just give me, like, one. Or maybe two.