Fairly busy week here. Getting tires this morning, then need to visit my MIL at rehab this afternoon. Tomorrow off to Bonita Springs to finish the house buying stuff which is becoming a hassle. Wednesday Book Club. Thursday going to ride in transport with MIL to her follow up visit with surgeon so I can ask questions. Friday, my doctor stuff. I really need to work on the more fun on the calendar part.

Fairly busy week here. Getting tires this morning, then need to visit my MIL at rehab this afternoon. Tomorrow off to Bonita Springs to finish the house buying stuff which is becoming a hassle. Wednesday Book Club. Thursday going to ride in transport with MIL to her follow up visit with surgeon so I can ask questions. Friday, my doctor stuff. I really need to work on the more fun on the calendar part.

Yeah, that's a poor task to fun ratio! You need to work on that. Or...not work at it, but relax into it.

Monday morning, no Pilates as I let my stitches heal.

I got to see my friend Eleanor yesterday at Borderlands, the bookstore where she used to work and we became friends. She and her DH and new baby are moving to Atlanta in a two weeks so it's bittersweet. She's terrible at staying in touch and hates not only social media but texting, so it will basically be the end of my knowing her.

I'll see her one more time this week as I drop some stuff off at her house.

I mean, I'll still send her snail mail in Georgia, but I used to see her several times a week for several years. It's like losing a good work friend and our culture doesn't recognize or acknowledge that kind of loss.

My friends at the comic book store are going to be leaving soon too, so that's a pretty big hit to my parasocial network.

Some other losses our culture doesn't properly honor: when a favorite bookstore (or comic book store) closes, when your favorite DJ leaves, or worse, the station suddenly changes format, when your favorite player is traded off your team, when they cancel Firefly after one season.

I got my reuben! It's snowing here again, so before it started coming down hard we made a grocery run and then stopped at Arby's, which has a perfectly respectable reuben.

I got my reuben!

Your whole week will be blessed!

It's snowing here again

It's 54 and mostly sunny in SF. But it's been quite brisk in the mornings.

I've had to bust out my heaviest winter coat, which (amusingly to me) was a collaboration between Justin Timberlake and Levi's.

I'm upset the Filiberto's across the street closed. I used to follow a stylist, but now I go to a no-appointment place and I think get a good cut about half the time...I think it's a training space or something...lots of foreign people I don't see twice. That's sad about your friend...I think my mistake at times like that has always been to hold on too hard. I mean "Be my tribe, goddamn it," is just never gonna work, no matter how much I try.(I didn't really do that, mind you, just tried to squeeze, metaphorically speaking. But maybe she'll want to be in touch more than she hates texts. I would. Except I can't text.) Gotta say, the Firefly thing? Is something I've just had to accept from most of y'all. The first few I saw I really didn't like, like, at all. Then I watched it in a bunch and thought "That was fine,too bad it didn't get another chance," and, well, that's all. I get all #FuckTheBosses with you about it both because it doesn't take much to send me there and because I hate to see you sad. I just have to add it to my ever-widening "Why is this such a thing?" list.

I scheduled the MRI for my misbehaving hip — the first MRI appointment at any facility in my network is a month out (literally one month from today), but honestly, as long as I have it scheduled, I can wait. It's a busy month anyway.

Gotta say, the Firefly thing? Is something I've just had to accept from most of y'all. The first few I saw I really didn't like, like, at all. Then I watched it in a bunch and thought "That was fine,too bad it didn't get another chance," and, well, that's all.

I'm still in that camp -- Firefly never did click with me. Weird how that happens, but different people like different shit.

I liked Firefly well enough. Not as much as a friend who went to the local Serenity showing every year for a decade, but I wouldn’t have minded another season.

There’s a local Italian bakery, and I thought—yay, a panettone source! So I dropped by there today after my haircut. They’d never heard of it. I ended up finding it at Kroger, but c’mon, man. If you’re an Italian bakery, you ought to have panettone in December. Still, the local Kroger has pretty good bakery options. Loads of paczki options around Easter.

Yeah. I mean, broadly, I understand the disappointment...there is much more "Brilliant But Cancelled" in my viewing history rather than fixtures, aside from "Friends" and "Frasier" and, maybe "THe Golden Girls" which I watched because either grandmother liked it and because there was nothing on on Sundays but occasionally young fannish people ask me about it like I got to see Yalta first-hand. It didn't feel that way when I was watching it.)And, yes, I think I'm a Dorothy--she couldn't escape her mother either! (and most of that stuff didn't get a movie, y'all demanding bastards, I add with affection. And, yeah, the movie was, you know, exciting and stuff, but I go years without thinking about it, except that I see Morena in an ugly sheriff's uniform in a commercial now and then.) Wow, that's weird. Now I feel like Homer Simpson reading "Previous instances where I professed to like you were fraudulent." to Ned at the mental hospital(I guess that was a fixture once, too.)

An Italian bakery had never heard of pannetone? Who do they have working there?? It’d be one thing if they said “it’s a pain, we don’t make it” but…not knowing??

(I love pannetone but just get the Trader Joe’s version which is not amazing but oh well)

The local-to-my-work fancy grocery did a Reel or something of their holiday offerings and I think over half was variations on pannetone. But they don't bake it, they import it, I'm pretty sure. One of those things I don't really know what it is, I think because it's full of something I'm allergic to, but I have heard of it...