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...

at Arby's, which has a perfectly respectable reuben

This is good information to have.

We are staying here for Christmas (going to my cousin's for Christmas dinner, which was a lovely invitation to receive -- and there will be a new baby there. I haven't held an infant in years, so, yay.)

But I'm not decorating or anything -- except for one pointsettia. We don't entertain or host family atvthe holidays, so, while the big tree was fun for a couple of years, I do not have the oomph this year. All of my Christmassing will be external!

I just bought our car tickets to the drive through light show near here tomorrow night (Bull Run Regional Park, if anyone cares).

Then next week, we'll go to a walk -through-lights at the Meadowlark Botanical Gardens (where we got married, as it happens). And I discovered on their website that they have Pup Wednesdays, so you can walk your dog there! Birdie will be in for a treat. They also have these hippie mindful movement through nature "retreats" which I may look into. Sounds relaxing. Yay, nature.

My friend M's fancy party is this weekend, and my friend C is contemplating a pre-Christmas brunch the following weekend. Ooh, and yet a third friend is going to host a chill gathering on NYE like she did last year. And finally, tea at the Willard with my birthday dinner pals on Jan. 10th.

I feel like that's a good holiday run!

Arby's Reubens are pretty good--I liked Culver's better, but my closest one closed.