Monday, December 2, 2013

So that didn't work so well...


So much for NaNoWriMo. If you go to a victory party, don't look for me. I didn't even break 5,000. But few things are more boring than writers who aren't writing, talking about how they aren't writing. Yiich! So no more on this topic from me. Don't look now, but it's December. Today I ate my first Christmas cookie of the season. May it be the last. I will not let happen this year what happened last year. Today I drove for many, many miles and many hours. When it was over my nerves were shot. I found I needed to enter a space where I was cut off from all stimulation. I created a decompression chamber for myself. I wrapped myself in a thick robe, and put myself in a room alone, where I shut off all light, except that from a small lamp, and put a blanket over my head. I lay like that, not sleeping, for a long time. The other day after much socializing I felt an urge to put my soft knit cap on my head. I was indoors, but the hat felt comforting and snug, and i kept it on for the rest of the evening. This might become my thing this winter. Maybe this will be the year of my growing eccentricity, the year they'll look back on as the time when I started wearing that damn hat everywhere I went.

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  1. oh, I love this. is it a toque?

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  2. A toque. Yes, I think it is a toque. That's what it is. I didn't know what to call it. Because it's not a stocking cap, so I knew that wasn't right. But a toque ---that's it. Yes, indeedy. A quick search on Google images confirms it. I like my toque. I like wearing a hat with that name. A little sophistication. Toque.That's French, right?

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  3. I wear mine around the house from November until April. You can't beat a nice, cozy head. Although, only a cat and/or an occasional peeping Tom will see me. I might be a bit more self-conscious if I lived with someone.
    I have been known to wear it to bed when the wind is whistling out of the NE as that comes directly into the bedroom window and bounces off my head. I hope it's more comfort than eccentric.

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  4. H.B., you live in Michigan, so you definitely get a pass. As far as I'm concerned, any "add-on" clothing you wear from November to April is A-OK. Now, sporting a chrome dome in a cold place like Michigan --brrrrrrrrrr!----where I just imagine it is so so cold....now that might be eccentric!

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  5. Eccentric?!
    Might my walking around in chilly Michigan without a healthy layer of snugly warm fat on my bones eccentric, too?

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  6. Naw. That's not eccentric. Just short-sighted.

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  7. the year you became Old Crazy Hat Lady who rarely bathes......

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