Holiday time means...

Movie time!

Two great ones I saw this year are Atonement and P.S. I Love You. I recommend them both highly. But only in that order. Heavy, then light. Always the way to go.

Exactly why I do NOT want to live to be this old

Home Alone. A 79-year-old woman, Mary Ann, dies in Los Angeles.
She's lived alone for decades. No one knows her, or her next of kin.
There's a body to be buried, a house full of stuff to get rid of. It
so happens there's a county bureaucracy for just this type of problem.
In this show, we follow around the person charged with figuring out
what to do with the remains of Mary Ann's life. This and other stories
about what happens when people are left alone.

http://youtube.com/talwithiraglass

This is the view from my back bedroom window...I am so screwed this winter