"Hold onto everything you know
Hold on for winter wind and snow
Time stands still
But we go on

It's over this notion
This couldn't last forever
We'd know much better had we
Given this over, sadly
Our time now is ending
And nothings left withstanding
Another day of knowing...
This is the last day of our love."

- vhs or beta "time stands still"

It's been a good time. I've been using up my vacation time before my weekend job really kicks up. And I ended up getting scheduled at the 'bux for a single day in the last two weeks. So I've been visiting a lot with friends (even those at work) and baking adventurously, playing wii sports with the kids, drinking hot mint tea and double lattes... A good friend recently introduced me to a version of the chai latte that did not make me nauseous.And nonfat even! When all this time I have been known widely to despise both. Hence there has been change, small yes, but it's happened...
Christmas is not even here, yet already I feel the slow creeping in of dread for my return to the so-called "real world".
This, of course, makes holiday life all the sweeter.

They are going to a chanukkah party at the Place's tonight. I am undecided as to whether I will. I want to, sure, but I still have a LOT of baking to do, I haven't been feeling well, and I really don't want to be sick for christmas... Again. This would be year three.

At last, the season is changing. I walked out to the office tonight to get the charger for the phone that I am using to post and felt, for the first time this year, the bite of cold air on every inch of exposed skin. It made my night, I've got to admit. There is something about the cold and the season that wakes me up. It reminds me to breathe, that summer was hard but the experience has made life all the more worth it.
Now is a time for sighing the sigh of contentment. If only for the moment it takes to use that breath.
At last, the season has changed...