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Auntie is freezing her dainty little toes off. It is COLD outside, and getting progressively COLDER. This, of course, is made more dramatic by the fact that it was 73 degrees yesterday and today it is 38. We will be hauling our plants in, or putting them in the garden shed, to protect them.

Of course, the kids are delighted, because they are hoping the Snow Queen will finally make it snow here. They've been waiting for snow for quite some time now, and are getting rather impatient. Snow in central Texas is always an iffy proposition. Last year, there was snow at Christmas everywhere else EXCEPT here! I mean... even GALVESTON got snow, fer gossakes, but NOT US!!! It was very frustrating, and the Impertinent Daughter kept coming up with (to her) valid reasons for us to get in the car and brave icy roads to drive to wherever it was actually snowing so she and her little brother could play in it. *snorts* Yeah. Right.

Well, I guess I'd better go find some warm socks to put on, though with my luck, the Impertinent Daughter has already rummaged through my sock drawer and probably stolen the last clean pair. Yes, you guessed it, the Husbandly One had laundry duty this week, and you know what THAT means. *sigh* Maybe he's AFRAID to wash my clothes, though, really, he shouldn't be. I mean, I haven't bought ANYTHING that requires dry cleaning in over ten years. You learn your lesson after the third time a pair of dry clean only pants goes through the dryer, and you try to put them on only to find pants that were once long enough to wear with heels are now capri pants that are cutting off the circulation below your waist.

Maybe I should steal HIS socks. Except, that would defeat the purpose of my looking more like a girl. But... who looks at feet? My feet are small, so... oh, never mind.

I hear a mug of hot chocolate calling my name!

In the most unlikely places...

You know, I completely forgot to mention this, but reading emiime's entry reminded me...

Because of the cold weather that blew in today, the Husbandly One and I decided to go shoes and coat shopping for the kids last night, while it was still warm, and dry-ish. We drove into San Marcos and hit the shoe store, got the kids fitted up, and oh, wasn't THAT funny. The Husbandly One confronted the reality of having a daughter. "Four pairs of shoes?" he protested. "Why does she need FOUR pairs of shoes?? Won't two do?"

I said, "This is only the beginning, honey. She needs a couple more."

Oh, the poor man looked so shell-shocked (and I just KNOW vicki_sine is laughing her ass off right now). And that's not including CLOTHES, because, of course, she just had another growth spurt and NOTHING FITS!!

Anyhow, after the shoes shopping, we went to this fast-food Italian place called "Fazoli's" and ate. And it was while we were eating that I looked up at a table that was down the wall from us and saw... now, brace yourself emiime, dear, and put down anything you're drinking, we don't want you frying the keyboard. Okay, ready? I looked up, and sitting at a table just down the row from us was...

Percy Weasley.

Draco Malfoy.

And Hermione Granger.

Really, I swear it! Oh, it just KILLED me that I had taken the camera out of my purse because I needed to replace the batteries and we didn't have any of the right size. Fraggitall! The Impertinent Daughter saw my mischief filled eyes and turned around to see what I was looking at and squealed, "Oh! It's Percy! He's a PERFECT Percy Weasley!!"

That's what we get for eating in a college town!

And don't you know, the Draco clone turned and shot us the perfect sneer for us lowly Muggles making such a fuss!! Hahahahaahahaha!!

It's a small town. Maybe I'll run into them again. And I'll have my camera ready!