Or is it?  Yes, it is.  It's snowing, but not heavily.  Yesterday's dusting was still on the ground, and it was snowing when I got up, but the temperature is warming now, and it turned to raindrops.  I love this weather for being inside the house.  My chicken is warm, dry and happy.  The dogs love colder weather, but not wet conditions, so they are asleep now inside.  I still have a lot of things to do outside, but they are not critical. 

Sunday's debacle was the Green Bay Packer game, which loss I could see coming all along during the game; so I slept and read, not doing anything.  On Monday, I baked bread and made a crockpot of store-bought frozen meatballs with 2 packages of brown gravy mix (a "recipe" from my new daughter-in-law).  I added 4 home-grown potatoes into the top of the pot and put it on low for a number of hours.  It was tasty, but the package told me I was getting a lot of cholesterol in the meatballs.  I've been eating a few of them each day since, with potatoes and green beans.  I feel the need to cook something low-calorie now.  I have been eating a lot of fresh fruit since I went shopping.  Two bunches of grapes, one pink and one dark red, oranges and grapefruit, and today, I got out some frozen blueberries.  Think I'll make blueberry pancakes for supper.  Is that cholesterol free?  How about calories?  I think it depends on what you put on those pancakes. 

Well, I obviously don't have much to talk about, even to myself, today, and I'm tired of expressing my political opinions now, too.  But I'm glad that Obama is going to close Guantanamo.  That has been a stain on America for long enough.  I hope he restores all of the lost Constitutional rights to the people, too.  I hope he does something to insure that voting is carried out in a generically safe and sure method, with no hanky-panky allowed at the polls or registration.  And the more I hear about these spendthrift companies crying for more and more bailouts, the more I think they should either be allowed to fail, or that their officers, etc. should go to prison for their corruption and mis-management. 

And please, please start bringing our troops back home.  I was thinking about those contractors in Iraq, too.  The Blackwater people that are each making $400,000 salaries to do god-only-knows-what over there.  They are being paid by American taxpayers, we being the ones who are indebted to China, etc. for their pay.  Barack's head must be spinning when he lies down to sleep at night, with all the many huge problems he will have to tackle immediately to save this country. 

I know that Barack wants to bail out the auto industry too, and though I think he knows we have to do these things, I really want to believe that these people will not get off the hook for free.  They were complicit in the mis-management and corruption that's been going on for a long time now.  Barack is saying that we have to forgive them, because they were just going along with what was "the way" at the time.  But can I forgive AIG for taking the bail-out money and twice going to fancy get-togethers at taxpayers' expense?  No, I can't.  They should have cut back like the rest of us and gotten together in a much cheaper locale.

Monday, my daughter and I went Christmas shopping at Kohl's.  We didn't spend too much, and had a good time, getting into every department they had.  It was a long trek and I was so tired at the end, that I spent all day Tuesday recovering and resting up with my aches and pains.  Today, I can say that I feel much better and will probably get a goodly amount of housework done.  It surely does need some cleaning around here.