Today is the first day of winter, and appropriately it was relatively cold today and we are expecting rain beginning tomorrow through Christmas. No hot spell this Christmas time, as we have had so many years in the past. It’s weather that just makes me want to come inside and stay.
Living alone is a banquet of options. Sometimes it’s wonderful to just take off and go somewhere for an evening or a day or multiple days. Though I am by nature an introvert, I love being out around people, particularly if I don’t have to talk with them. I have a whole series of places that I go to people watch, and I was planning to go to one tonight.
I came home from baking cookies at a friend’s. The oven doesn’t work where I’m living, so I have to borrow the oven of my good friend David. I bake cookies in his oven while we watch football in a weird combination of the Food Network and ESPN. I planned on dropping off the cookies and heading back out, but as I got out of my car and felt the cold air outside I decided almost immediately to stay in.
I don’t have any plans for a night at home, and it really isn’t all that cold, I just want to not be out. Sometimes I (and we) have to pull myself from the chaos and cold of the outside world just to feel the warmth of solitude. I will enjoy being inside tonight, whether I read a book or watch the new Christmas Carol on FX, or just sit and enjoy coffee and a newly baked cookies.
It’s winter outside. It’s time to come in.
Some good writing here.