Its Groundhog day. And the stupid little rodent saw his shadow. If I seem a little hateful towards an innocent animal you may have guessed I am not happen the steelers won the Super Bowl. They basically stole it and the refs helped. The touchdown before the half was NOT a TD. I hope the refs choke on something and die.

My cold is about over but I have a headache and am vexed by menstruating too. Have had a headache every day for the past three days or so. Not sure if its due to the cold or the wacky weather. Either way it sucks ass.

The Super Bowl is this weekend. And while I like watching football, I am at the point where I really dont care about the Super Bowl anymore. I cant even justify it and say "I am watching it more for the commercials then the game", because the commercials suck as much as the game anymore. But there are places online one can view the ads and save the headache.

I have got a cold. And I know from whom I caught it, Mom. She hadn't been feeling well last week and is getting over it and as a parting shot I get it. Since we are going to the laundromat tomorrow, it will make things interesting.

Watched a bit of the inauguration yesterday. Got tired of all the talking head. Those windbags say more then they really need to say. But they wont ever shut up because they like the sound of their voices.

Our new president is going to have a heck of a time cleaning up after Bush. It will be a miracle (again) if he gets another term in office. Carter had lost of problems with having to clean up after Nixon.

Didn't do too much over the weekend. Got around to taking care of a couple things I have been putting off for awhile.

The snow didn't stay around too long. There are still some traces of it in the areas that dont get much sun.

Trash isn't getting picked up today due the holiday. The extra day gives me a little more time to get some extra stuff ready.

The dipshit President made his farewell speech on TV last night. I am so happy his punk ass is almost out of office. I will be watching the swearing in of our new President on Tuesday. Can only wonder what the ratings will be for it. Guess we will find out.

Mom decided to take today off. It was a last minute thing. Good thing she has the day off, because we have snow. The dogs haven't minded the cold weather we have been having since they love it.

Not sure what we will do today. Have to take the snow into account.

Had a dream that I was in Paris again in a hotel room that had a patio. Mom was with me. She was up walking around the room and went over to open the sliding glass door. When she opened it a fluffy cat came running in and jumped up on the bed and began rubbing on me. Mom thought it was funny and asked if we should keep it. I said something about missing Franklin and wondered how we would get the cat home through customs. Thats all I remember of the dream.

Spur of the moment we went out and saw "Gran Torino" last night. It was a really good movie and I recommend everyone see it. Although it did lag a little in the movie, the story was real good. You could see the change in the main character as the movie went along.

Finally took some things to Goodwill. Had been putting off going for a few weeks and we had a large container that was in the way and now its gone. Also did a small amount of shopping while we were out.

Ebay has slowed way down. The recession isn't helping. When will the bail out for the people of this country happen?

Had a couple strange dreams recently. One from the other night had me in the house listening to people break in. There was some strange activity prior to them trying to break in like vehicles of all sorts slowing down to look at the house. Most of the stuff took place at night but when I went to call the cops is was suddenly day time. A dream from last night took place at night. I was alone in a strange car driving around the neighborhood trying to get photos of a UFO while there was a thunderstorm going on. At one point lighting struck the car and came at me and then towards the camera. The strange thing was the car didn't die, it stopped for a second but continued to funtion normally. Thats all I remember about both.

I pre-ordered the latest MST3K set. It has two movies I have never seen and two movies I have seen and still have on VHS. Once I get the se the tapes will be trashed.

Need to do a load of laundry. The weather is due to turn a little colder in the next few days and I do not want to get backed up on laundry if I can help it.

One of the things we did over the weekend was to cancel HBO and Cinemax. Rarely watched either one, but Mom had wanted to keep them. Trying to do what we can to try the fat out of the budget.

Mom had Thursday and Friday off. We cleaned, argued and took care of some chores. Typical weekend for us, most of the time.

I would swear I heard gun fire on when the new year rang in. Wouldn't put it past a couple neighbors to do just that.

This is the first full week of the year. So far the weather has been nice. Warmer then usual but nice.

Happy New Year!!

I hope this year will be better then last year.

Saw the movie "Doubt" yesterday and it was very good. Like when movies end and they dont have a happy ending. Wouldn't want it all the time but its nice when you get a ending where you can make of it what you want too.

As we on our way home, stopped off at Target before heading home, we ran into some snow. Pushed to get the car fueled up, because I didn't want to have to do it today if it wasn't nice out. Today is supposed to get in the mid forties, so it might melt the snow.

Mom has a short work week, she will take Thursday and Friday off. Not sure if we will be doing anything special for New Years Eve. Probably not, but might want to plan on having a fire and playing some board games.

What a long strange trip its been in the weather department this week. And I am not kidding. We started the week with a low of around zero and a high in the teens. Then Friday has a high in the upper sixties. If that wasn't fun enough we got heavy rain storms move in over night and we got nearly an inch of rain. Speaking of rain, we got another rain storm recently complete with thunder and lightening. Fun times in December.

Will be seeing a movie this weekend. Haven t seen any movies lately, not because we didn't want to, but nothing really interested us at all. Will probably see a few more movies next year.

Mom loved her gifts. I got a nice purple knit scarf and a perfume/lotion set. The stuff smells wonderful. Will wear it sparingly, but it is wonderful stuff.

Snow and a little rain yesterday means we will be having a white Christmas this year. Mom's drive should be loads of fun.

Christmas is tomorrow. Have Moms' gifts wrapped and ready for opening. I got here a couple nice necklaces from Natures Jewelry. Really cant go wrong when I order from them.

Tomorrow will be a toned down affair. Gifts and breakfast in the morning, a fire and a light lunch for the afternoon and a nice dinner in the evening. At some point I will get a fire going. Not sure what we will do in the evening, but it doesn't matter.

Had a little more winter weather yesterday. There is nothing but a sheet of ice in the driveway. It is supposed to be windy all weekend. But the forecasts haven't been to accurate lately. Seems they are hit and miss as usual.

The Christmas tree is up, decorated and pretty. But the recession and other things have made the season a bit of a Bah Humbug time.

We have snow! And it sucks, too. The rain never came for us on Sunday night. We got a light snow storm and that was it. Guess Mother Nature wanted to wait until today to dump some snow on us. It looks nice, but Mom has to drive in it with people who seem to get amnesia about driving in snow. I always worry about when shes out there. Looks like it might take her awhile to get home tonight. Hopefully she can leave at a decent time.

It was supposed to be a little warmer yesterday and then turn colder but that didn't happen. We went to have the car looked at because I thought we had a leak, but we dont have a leak.

Looks like it might snow or rain tonight, which is always lovely. And we might get a bit more snow later in the week too.

A few deaths I have not mentioned that have happened lately..Van Johnson, Nina Foch and a couple others I am drawing a blank on.

The weather is such a roller coaster that it's hard to plan much. Will more then likely go to the laundromat this weekend and get caught up on a few things. Hate doing it, but I am behind on a few things. Its due to weather and laziness. Will just have to make sure I do laundry when I can now.

Had a brief snow storm, it didn't leave much at all. And melted a little when it got a bit warmer.

Looks like this weekend might be the last nice weather we see for a while.

It is now December and Christmas is inching ever closer.

Already have Christmas shopping done. Just need to do a little decorating and send out a few cards.
Not sure what all we will do leading up to Christmas. Because of the economy and other things I am not in too much of a festive mood. But I doubt I am the only one who feels like that.