This cold weather is really starting to get to me. It's 20 here this morning and has been below freezing every night for a month. Now I realize that is normal in some places, but it has never been so cold for so long in Athens, that I can remember. My wonderful house is not really designed for it. It has too many windows. During the sunny days, it's lovely, and the wood stove takes the chill off sometimes. But getting up in the dark and the cold is miserable. And we have actually had the heat going a lot. I think it's important for my mother (and myself) to keep it warm in here.

Tree is gone and everything put away. The plan was to move the TV into the living room (where the tree was) so we could watch TV sitting in front of the fire. However, Ray has not been able to make the connection to the satellite work. He has been to Radio Shack and Lowe's and called service several times. Eventually, we will have to give up and pay $100 for a service call--or move the TV back into its old spot in the study. My hope was to work on cleaning up the study and maybe build shelves there, more easily done without the TV.

Yesterday I worked 7 hours, bookkeeping and submitting reimbursements, but I found a mistake and will have to do one over today. Fortunately, it is pretty early. Then I went and bought a new printer for Peggy and installed it, for which she will pay me. I was home by 4:30, reading and eating potato chips and having a drink. It was not a good day for losing weight. Ray made supper and then we watched DVD's, which we can do even without the satellite hookup.