Magical

I've had a simply wonderful day. After falling asleep reading at 4pm yesterday afternoon and only waking up for a brief time at midnight to pee and remove my contacts, I got up at 9:30 this morning feeling refreshed for the first time in a long time. I spent my morning out with my Auntie helping her spend a $500 Columbia gift certificate that came with her new car. I got a new winter coat out of it, and I love it! It is brown and baby blue and VERY warm. I like it a lot. We then had a lovely breakfast-at-lunch at Smitty's and headed home just before the roads got too bad.

There's something nice about being warm inside while it's snowing outside. I spent the afternoon curled up in front of the fireplace with a book from which I could see the snow gently falling outside the window. I got a lot of reading down. Considering I had barely started the novel I need to write my ethics paper on as of yesterday, I am now over halfway done. I plan to finish it tomorrow by lunchtime. Anyways, Mum made us supper (a rare occurence... we usually both cook for ourselves), and then we went outside to shovel... which turned into a small snowball fight, which I won, of course. ;) I also made a snow angel and got snow down my pantalons and my underpantalons. It was worth it, though. My snow angel was pretty, and I can see it from my window. Since then, I've been sitting on my window seat reading, and I just made myself some hot chocolate. It's been a lovely day. There is something magical about the first snow fall.