Well, Dear readers, I'm wondering what the weather has in store for us this week.  I've had one of those headaches, lodged in the back of my head and pounding, for 2 days now. It's my own personal little barometer, a leftover gift from a girl on Interstate 88 in Illinois who didn't think it was a good idea to stop when the rest of the cars around her did for a toll booth. If you're reading this, Sweety- yes, it still hurts after all these years. Additionally Eddie, the aforementioned goat, has been trying to get into the house all morning, butting the door and looking in the window. He may just be cold, or he's learned a new trick, but I refuse to have a goat as a house guest. My porch is trashed enough. His house came yesterday, wobbling up the road on its one good wheel, the rim of the other one dragging in the snow like a wounded coyote. We got it part way into the driveway where it sank in tot he snow. It's going o have to work until breakup. That's the motto up here these days. Make it work until the snow melts and then make it right later. It's amazing how much 5' of snow makes everything more difficult. the other day I was walking in my back yard on the packed snow that we've made with the snow shoes. I though I saw a tree budding out and, like an idiot, I took a step over to look more closely at it. I really wish there would have been a video tape of me sinking to my waist in snow and then thrashing through it again to crawl back onto the packed stuff. I'm sure a video would have kept us laughing all the way to summer. Oh well, time to get started with the day, i guess. I have a ton of writing to do for school. I wasn't able to really concentrate and get anything done over the weekend. Not really depressed, per se, I just couldn't bring myself to be analytical or creative. I spent the weekend just sort of living. I spent time with the kids, slept in late, played video games, played with the goat and in general was a useless layabout. Sometimes you have to do that, just because. Like every other choice in life, though, there are consequences. Now I'm going to have to pay the piper and kick it into overdrive to try to write something noteworthy. Wish me luck everyone, and have a great day!