We have been reminded once again why we hate winter here in the Frozen North and again we question why we insist on living here. The temperature has dropped to -30, well -28 to be exact but for the purpose of dramatic impact saying -30 is more...well, dramatic. So along with the snow we got last week we can officially say we are into our Alberta winter. Of course we are not used to it at all and having that extra month of great weather doesn't help, but it was sure nice. Nonetheless, it's here and there's not a thing we can do about it so we must just get on with life and wait for spring.
We're getting into the Christmas mood here. The tree is up, the Christmas lights (new LED ones) twinkle outside every night on the timer. The out of town gifts and Christmas cards are mailed out and all we have left is to clean up the house, get the odd one or two things for each other and the kids and we're done. Dianne got her Christmas present a little early this year in the form of a new desk for her office which we put together yesterday. She was so envious of the nice red mahogany desk I got for my office that she decided she wanted one for herself. Hers is a little smaller as she does not have as much room in her study but it looks very nice and beats the old white desk thingy she had in there.
And speaking of Christmas songs, can somebody tell me since when did "My Favourite Things" have anything to do with Christmas? I hear this song ever increasingly around this time of year and I wonder why somone thought that this song from "The Sound Of Music" was Christmasy or even Wintery. I can see "Winter Wonderland" or "Jingle Bells" as being kind of appropriate, although a bit of a stretch, but each one talks about stuff to do in winter. But talking about "dog's biting" and "bees stinging" is a long way from "visions of sugarplums dancing in our heads". Seems kind of odd, that's all.

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