CountryMouse's Refuge

All I'm gonna say about those nightclub fires is that I think fireworks and light-shows indoors are a Bad Idea. Outside, fine.

I think I remember that at the end of "Lord of the Dance", which Cat'r and I saw in a large indoor arena, there were pyrotechnics. ::shiver:: I don't want to be in a building ever again that has that. It was pretty, but...looking back, it could've turned out badly.

It's a good thing springtime is coming NOW in Animal Crossing (the game I have been playing since last September!). The grass is green, Tom Nook is carrying new spring outfits in his store, butterflies and ladybugs can be seen in town! The ground is no longer a frozen wasteland. The snow-covered landscape was pretty at first, but you know how it eventually palls. In the last week or so I was making frequent trips out to the island, where it is always summer, the grass is green, the fish are jumpin' and the insects sing with reckless abandon. :-D

Meanwhile, here IRL, it's still snowy outside, it's cold, more snow is coming...and not gorgeous drifts of it, but just an inch here and an inch there. Just ongoing boring cold weather. I think I am actually ready for springtime IRL too. :-)

Today I went through all my closets and took out all my fall and winter clothes and dragged them over to Nookington's and SOLD THEM ALL! I am ready for pretty new spring clothes! And as soon as I have time, I am going to redecorate. I currently have the Snowman series of furniture on my first floor; but I am thinking of going with either the Lovely series (so much PINK!) or the Cabana series.

Thank goodness Nintendo is giving us welcome relief when Old Man Winter wants to hang on out here in "the real world". :-)