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Hello, folks. We had the most unseasonably warm day today — it was lovely. I pulled out all the dead tomato/pepper/squash plants and tidied up the veggie patch a bit. The bare spots look so ready to be planted but they soooo aren’t. Only about another five months! Patience.

– Luckily, I enjoy cold-weather food. As I finished this sweet potato, I found myself wondering why a person would ever bake a regular potato. I mean, they’re good and all, but the sweet potato is the superior potato. I don’t go in for eating them with sugar and cinnamon, though. Salt, pepper, and (in this instance) a little bit of parmesan.
– I managed to ruin the last bit of my batch of cold press this morning, and I didn’t have time to brew regular coffee, since my oatmeal was done cooking. So I went without until lunchtime, when I made some in my French press. Then I got another coffee while I was out running errands. If you witnessed a blur whistling Christmas tunes in Target today, that was me.

– Sometimes I fall into YouTube and somehow lose hours watching Elvis Costello videos. It’s the late 70s ones that get me; I can’t resist those glasses. I would like to have an Elvis Costello cover band — a folksy, acoustic one, obviously.
– I’m usually very apathetic when it comes to holidays (all holidays), but I have to admit to feeling ‘in the spirit’ about Thanksgiving and Christmas this year. Instead of rolling my eyes, I got a little bit excited by the appearance of Christmas tat on the shelves at Target. Hence the aforementioned whistling. Of course, at one point I also thought, ‘Oh man, I can feel my socks on the bottom of my feet!’ — the caffeine may have made me slightly more prone to giddiness than usual.
– Tomorrow is Halloween, and I’m going to an actual party in an actual costume. Other people had better come in costumes too, as mine involves a very short skirt. Without other dressed-up party-goers, I’ll just look a bit tarty. Hmm.