Author: Stacy Horn

I’m going to be on the radio tonight, at 8:10pm, EST, on the show Signs of Life, which is produced by the Forever Family Foundation. You can listen to it live on your computer if you click on the link I included.

I just took some cold medicine so hopefully the drowsy effects will be over by 8:10 and I will be both coherent in addition to non-stuffy. Oh god. Bad cold-getting timing. I’m very tired.

My cold has already started to clear up, but I’m going to take it easy one more day, just in case.

Speaking of being sick, my health insurance went up to just under $1,000 more a year. Just like that. Give us $1,000 more. Someone said all the health insurance companies are frantically raising their rates. I can’t believe people are fighting healthcare reform and the public option. Why on earth would anyone be on the side the insurance companies??

Here is another picture of the store that went up overnight across the street. It’s a high end housewares store. Here I am freaking out about my health insurance rates, living among people who can shop here.

Look at poor sick me! Don’t you want to send me food and flowers??

I’m exaggerating. It’s just a standard cold, no fever. I feel just under the weather enough that I won’t feel guilty taking it easy today, but I don’t feel really bad. I’m not suffering.

There was a lecture I had planned to go to tonight though, and I really do think I should stay home. Just so it stays a minor, standard cold. I can’t believe after a lifetime of having colds I’m not really sure how to treat them.
Like, should I not do my exercises today? Would it be okay to go to the lecture?

I love Christmas lights (big surprise) and these are my favorite kind, the Christmas lights of my youth, with these bigger bulbs.

I took this picture walking home from the new animated version of A Christmas Carol. I didn’t think it was a complete success, but I enjoyed it enough. It made me want to re-read the book though.

I took this picture an hour or so ago. It’s of a store that went up overnight on my block.

This looks like an Edward Hopper painting, doesn’t it?

Every day I fight the urge to get a dog. My big reasons and they are big enough to stop me:

– the money.

– the unhappiness it would bring my cats.

I bring it up because I’ve been fighting the urge ever since watching that Dog Named Christmas movie. Finney could deal with I think, but Buddy is very skittish.