erin's emporium of discount dreams & well-worn wonders

I feel like I’ve been easing into 2009 the way one wanders into OZ or Narnia or something, looking around at the world in a sort of befuddled wonderment and not particularly knowing what to do with myself. That the world outside my windows is a snow-icing landscape of white with creeping black-fingered trees likely [...]

It is raining. Or hailing. Or some other sort of frozen rainesque thing that is turning all the fallen slow to heavy wet slush. 
I should probably invest in some new boots.
For now I am hibernating, in the warmth with my tea and a pile of new books. 
I am slowly but surely getting into the swing [...]