Happy first day of winter, everybody! And all you poor souls who are heading into months of hot weather--you have my pity. We're supposed to get SNOW tomorrow--YAY!!!

This afternoon I went to both the Post Office and UPS*, resigned to the fact that I was going to be waiting in line forever; and to my amazement, there was only one person ahead of me at each place. Then I went to the grocery store, and everybody and their mother was there.

*MSNBC was here today at UPS, because today is the busiest day for shipping packages. Couldn't tell it by me.