Winter Storm Nemo

The Weather Channel is making today/tonight/tomorrow to sound like another blizzard of '78 and I'm not sure if I should be "freaking out" yet. Because I wasn't alive then but I've heard it was awful...and sometimes weather sources hype up storms so everybody is forced to "be prepared." I love living in the northeast but losing power here during a winter storm is awful. I've heard that a few winters ago, Texas got some kind of "snow fall" which I guess they've never gotten before, and everybody like flipped out. And I'm just here with a forecast of anywhere from 1-2 feet of snow between now (7:45 Friday AM) and Saturday morning until about noon or so. And to be perfectly honest, we have 2 cars in my household, including mine, that in the event of a true emergency we could get out of the area if we needed to.
Bad news is that (the way TWC is making this storm sound...) I doubt we'll keep power, which really sucks because last season we lost power for almost a week and it was just super irritating. Good news that I'm blessed with is the fact that we do have a generator that can provide us with showers and occasional TV, Internet, and phone charging, and we do have a wood stove right in the living room. Toasty. Also I've been dying ever since I was like 13 to cook something on top of the wood stove. I should just do it sometime.

So this post isn't really about anything interesting, I guess it's just me rambling pre-"historic storm." I'll probably have early morning pictures of Nemo's impact around here tomorrow morning.
If you live in the lovely northeast or are also in the path of Storm Nemo, be safe! Stay off the road if you don't need to be going anywhere- seriously. Don't be that guy. Be smart, if you have a generator, get auxiliary gasoline for that baby because it's going to suck if you lose power. Batteries for the radio, yanno.

Oh, New England...hunker down!

Happy New Year!

Well, we made it past the "end of the world," and onto the year 2013!
Nah, but in reality this country, and myself, as well as those around me, have had a rough year. I won't go into it, because it's now over and we have a seemingly fresh start, so I'll take it. I'm just optimistic about being able to start over.
Do you make a New Year's resolution? If you do, and you are normally the kind to actually stick to it for longer than...January...GOOD LUCK! GO FORTH AND CONQUER! I, on the other hand, have never set forth with a resolution and kept it for more than a few days. If in the beginning of this blog I'd have told myself I was going to post once every Wednesday, or something, I would have failed miserably at that for a very long time now. Yoga? Tried that, got into it for about 2 straight weeks or so and I really thought I might take off with it...nope. Every now and then I'll do it, but I'll unfortunately probably never do this:

But the normal stretching & breathing is nice.
No. This year, I think I'll do something different. I'll resolve things I actually feel I can stick to.
I'll resolve to try. I resolve to persevere. I'll resolve to do the best I can. I will be a better person toward everyone- my family, my fiance, and people I don't know.  I resolve to read more classics, and actually get my way all the way through Little Women (grandma gave it to me for Christmas when I was 12...I think it's time, don't you?). I will try new things. I will be crafty. I will pray. I will love. I will continue to be mindful of being patient with others. I might even do yoga again.
I'm not going to put myself on a schedule with these resolutions...because let's be honest, nobody ends up sticking to a New Year's Resolution schedule after January. Unless you actually did quit smoking...in which case, 'you go, Glen Coco!' But for me, putting myself on a resolution schedule is basically like telling myself "so you just made this list...of things you will never do. That was fun! See you next year."
Here's to 2013!