It's a mountain of fiber!

[debgeisler]

I'm looking across the kitchen table at a stack of fiber...part of the sheets and towels from our overnight guests on New Year's Eve. It's the last thing to get done (well, really, the *last* thing is to remake the spare beds and stow all of the rest of the linens and towels) to clean up from the party.

It was a very nice group of people. Not everyone stayed until midnight, either from fatigue or illness, but we still had a healthy crowd. We're also a crowd quite sensible of the weather and the other drivers -- few people who weren't spending the night stuck around much past 12:30 in the morning.

Yesterday, after our friends who had joined us for brunch headed home around 2 p.m. (since it had started to snow again, and there were concerns about the weather)(again)(what a winter!), we finished cleaning and then curled up on the couch and watched mindless television for a while. When we bestirred ourselves, it was to make a bizarre and sketchy dinner (little smokies, bagels, and cheese) and, later, to bring down the sheets and towels.

Everyone who spent the night had tidied up, and so it wasn't long before we had the feather beds, down comforters, air mattress, and spare pillows stowed (in the closet of down)(which must have an amazing R value). We left the laundry for me to do today.

It's blessedly quiet, but it was also blessedly noisy. I like it both ways, although I'll confess that pampering and just spending time with our friends is awfully nice. We never begrudge the cleaning, since it's a necessary evil if we want our friends here.

The only down side of the last few days was the sad defeat of the University of Illinois in the Rose Bowl. On the other hand, if they'd managed to win, benveniste's heart might have stopped (and I like him the way he is, thanks). Still, at 17-49, they did one touchdown better than he had predicted.

My fave headline about the various college bowl games comes from CNN/SI: Auburn edges Clemson at Chick-fil-A This doesn't sound like a bowl game...it sounds like a restaurant brawl. :-)

Hope your New Year is off to a great start!

Comments

[shsilver.livejournal.com]

Been a lifelong Illinoisian, I was rooting for the Illini (as much as I root for anything in college sports), but since I have a nephew in his freshman year at USC, this outcome suits as well.

[debgeisler.livejournal.com]

One of my great advantages in college was that nobody ever expected Ohio University to do anything in football. Last year, they were in a bowl game...for the first time since before man landed on the moon.

Mike, however, suffered from being an alum of a Big 10 school...poor baby. They have higher football expectations (and don't expect their band to be the main focus at the football games).

But then, they had to pay to see U of I football games. (If OU'd done that when we were in school, band or no band, nobody would have come!)

[shsilver.livejournal.com]

I went to Indiana, where nobody ever expected us to do anything in football. I think I was there when we won our first game in something like three years and they pulled down the goalposts.

Of course, since my parents went to Ohio State University during the Woody Hayes years, they couldn't understand how I could be a school that ignored football to play a strange game with a round orange ball.

[debgeisler.livejournal.com]

Of course, since my parents went to Ohio State University...

My mom also went to college in Columbus, Ohio...but she went to Ohio Dominican (then St. Mary of the Springs). And football does not feature prominently in the extracurricular activities of an all-women's Catholic school.