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A whole day of posting nothing but one-liners, and I feel a bit disappointed in myself. Like I should have more to say. But I really don't have much on my mind right now. I ended my reading fast completely today, with a binge of reading and posting to Wombat, and I also read Catwings and Bridge of Birds, two of the books that were recommended to me by people here a week or so ago.

What I haven't done, and I should, but will probably do in the morning, is to post a weekly checkin to the Artist's Way. I did do a few of the week's tasks, but they're in a notebook and I haven't copied them into the computer yet. I was going to do it tonight. Well, at least I read the Week 5 chapter.

I wore my hair up all day long but only one person noticed the new tragus piercing. Or at least, only one person commented. Even Ray didn't notice, when I went to pick up Rosa. She actually whacked me in the ear and I whimpered, but he didn't look at me to see why. Not that I'm surprised, he was never particularly observant. It took him about six weeks to notice that I had taken off my wedding ring last spring.

Ah yes. I finally emailed Amazon to find out what happened to my dvd player I ordered around Christmas that hasn't arrived yet, and they're sending me another one. After it had been listed as "in transit" for over two weeks past the estimated date of arrival, it seemed likely it was lost. I need that, how else am I going to watch Legolas and Aragorn every day after the movie leaves theatres?

Snow!

Rosa and I woke up this morning to the sounds. of scraping, as the sidewalks outside were being shoveled. Sometime during the night we received about four or five inches of snow, and everything is covered in a soft fluffy blanket of white. Even the finest branches of the redbud tree outside my window each have a thick layer of snow on them. It's beautiful and still and peaceful.

This makes for a change of plans for today, or an addition to them. I'm taking Rosa to the park, where she can play in the snow to her heart's content. I don't think she has ever played in snow before.

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Instantaneous baby silliness of the moment: she knocked down my mouse, which she does all the time. She then said "kiss it" because it fell down. I told her she should kiss it because she knocked it down. So she did.

And right now she just walked over and gave the cat a hug and a kiss.

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Ya gotta love St Louis. The beautiful snow blanket from last night is already thinning and melting to slush. But Rosa and I got to enjoy it for a little while.

This morning we went to IHOP for breakfast (she polished off four sausage links and a slice of bacon as well as most of two eggs and several bites of pancake--she's a big eater!). Then we went to Forest Park and tried to make a snowman. The snow packed beautifully into small snowballs but wouldn't accrue properly so that they could grow into snowman-size balls. (Snowman testicles, yes, but without the snowman to stick them to, what good is that?)

So we threw snowballs at each other and into a half-frozen fountain, where they floated (of course), I helped her make a snow angel and made one myself, and then we gave it up after about 45 minutes since we weren't really properly dressed for snow adventures: she doesn't have any boots, or even sneakers, just open-topped buckle shoes, and her mittens had soaked through.

We went to Sam's and bought some diapers and other exciting stuff: I got the Harry Potter Hogwarts School popup book for myself and Lord of the Rings for my dad.. And now we're home, I just walked her around the block twice to put her down for her nap: she's asleep and I'm online.

My dad had mentioned that he wanted a copy of LotR to reread after having been very impressed by the movie, so I said I'd find him one. He also expressed a wish for some other things to read (books in English being hard to come by in Peru...) so I culled about 25 books from my shelves that I thought they would like and was willing to part with, and offered them to him. They declined six or eight on grounds of having already read them, and the rest I'll box up and send off. In fact maybe I'll go do exactly that right now.