Winter Blitz!

It's so cold. It's awesome and also sucks.


It's so weird, I can't eat the vegetables I'm used to, cause they're freezing cold, and it makes my stomach ache. And I doubt my cucumbers and tomatoes will still be themselves after a round with the microwave :)
Oh well. I can't drink water cause it's so cold, and i can't bring myself to make warm things. Which makes me kinda miserable ATM.


I do love winter. Love it when it's raining, love going outside, the thrill of cold on my skin when I'm still feeling warm, love love love puddles, trees reflecting in puddles and leaves from those treas inside them, love the fresh air after it rains, and love the smell of rain. So many things.

GF got me a guava, love those so much :)

My clothes don't usually last beyond a season, and I wasn't expecting it to suddenly become really cold again, so I didn't have winter clothes ready. Yesterday I braved the rain in my sandals and tank top, and a very cute, pink, Hello Kitty umbrella I got GF last year - to try and get winter clothes. So many strangers made comments, thinking it was their place, or funny, or IDK. The store wasn't stocked, so they didn't have my size, and the other store I found wanted literally five times the price for clothes I didn't really like either. Ended up getting some shirts that don't exactly fit me, but are soft and nice and cozy. Didn't have it in me to go get socks and slippers .

Last night GF and I snuggled so much, snuggling is so great... :)

And Christmas reminds me of this song, which reminds me of this cute fic in which Snape slowly comes to terms with a deep dark desire to wear women's underwear. Adorable. Not a lot of cute, mostly-happy songs about trans things.

December Days: Coffee and Favorite Warm Drinks

mashimero prompted me to write about coffee, or "what is your favourite hot drink to have on a cold winter day?" I'm a day early, but it's the sort of day to write about things like that on.
This is part of the December Days meme. If you feel like it, you can prompt me too, here.

December Days: Coffee and Favorite Warm Drinks

I rarely pick a favorite anything, but a warm drink I love is chai tea made with soy milk. I like it with or without a rosewater twist. It's just so yummy. I'd been drinking it for years, but it became my go to favorite drink for a while, during NaNoWriMo a few years ago. I'd stay up late, sometimes in the dark, in order to allow everyone to sleep, and write - I think that year it was a story about a mother who gets wished away by her kids, and sent to a magical school for the worst parents - the Hogwarts of correctional facilities. The people she meets there, the secret things going on at night, and eventually getting saved. Never did manage to finish it.

I used to drink it, when possible, in my favorite mug - a heavy, light blue, large mug I'd gotten for GF. She wanted a heavy, thick, large mug that was straight rather than cone-shaped. She had a theory that it kept the liquid warm for longer. I looked for a mug like that for her for years... got her so many mugs that weren't exactly what she was after. My light-blue mug was one of them, and it was fantastic. I loved it. It had a small chip that was part of it's charm. One day, though, IIRC, it broke a bit more. I didn't want to get rid of it, and GF ended up hurting her hand on the edge, and getting a little scar, which I still feel horrible for.

As for coffee, I mostly drink it in one of two situations. The first -just to order something at coffee places, when I need a place to work. I mostly drink decaf, with soy milk and no sweetening. It sometimes works as a treat, when I'm writing particularly hard things, like a favorite toy or having someone hold your hand. Another time I often have coffee is at uni - there's a coffee corner where it's sold for cost, trusting people to just leave the money for it there. It's pretty bad coffee, and it's kinda awesome to manage to actually have all the ingredients there, but they often have soy milk, and it's great to have something warm and comforting during break, particularly when it's hard early morning or late evening classes.

Oh! And those aren't exactly my things, but when we celebrated Christmas I used to make kickass spiced wine and apple cider :)