Here's a question for you. How many months of neglect are a blog's death sentence? There's an "oh I was busy this week" kind of absence, but then there is also a "does this girl even exist anymore? Unsubscribe me." Asking for a friend : ) I'm at a two month absent mark, and I'd say that constitutes a little more than a dead blog. It's buried and forgotten.

Remember all Keira's promises to blog more, start this series or that? Ha! Trying to keep up with teenage promises is hard. She has a business to run! A commute to drive! Snow to shovel! Humans to feed!

So she trudges in every few months in case you think she's forgotten this space, that she has come to hate writing - such things are hard to come by in a busy life. The year is new and she will try again.

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How is everyone? (by that I mean: you) Survived the new year I hope? It's always a little strange for me to mark the years changing because I don't exactly have any traditions. Maybe I will develop a few in years to come, but now Dec. 31st feels like any other day. I went to bed at a normal time because by then it had already been dark for a hundred years and it was too snowy to drive and see friends.

What are we, 10 days in? I can't say Jan has shown its intentions beyond winter in full force. This is usually the coldest month with the most snow - as the elements throw everything they can at us. I'm not sure the actual snowfall number, but our house is surrounded by four+ ft. drifts. (though i realize 4' of snow is nothing comparatively)

We had a warm spell this weekend. Every road is a sheet of ice. I can't wait for it to snow again just so we can have traction. Ice is THE worst, and unless you see (or drive) it - hard to explain its severity. Ironically, I more confident this winter thane ever, which I guess is a testement I am well on my way to being a seasoned Northerner : )

Tis the season for wrap-up posts, but I am trying not to remember 2021 too much. And I'm too aware "it was a crazy year" has already been used a hundred time. I posted earlier this year books so far in 2021 - read that if you haven't. But here's a small list of what I finished the later-half of 2021.

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f i l m s

While You Where Sleeping
Snow Falling on Cedars
The Prestige
Downton Abbey

b o o k s

4 books by Ariel Lawhon (a.k.a everything she's ever published)
The Pelican Brief
Lone Survivor
City of Endless Night
House Rules (Picoult novel, of course!)

m u s i c

Into the Mystery / NTB
Godspell / Stephen Schwartz
This is the best version of "Better Together"
Flag Day soundtrack / Eddie Vedder
Get Out of the Way of Your Own Heart / Chris Renzema

stay warm
k.

How has 2022 been treating you so far?
What are you looking forward to most this year?