It has been a gorgeous past few days here in the Northeast. After a two-week deep freeze stacked with days in the negative teens, we've finally been welcomed with Spring in New England -- three days in the middle of January. As you can imagine, this sort of weather has awoken people from their state of hibernation and sent them out into nature where happiness and fun has blossomed like May flowers. I am not one of those people. Instead of enjoying the warmest days out of the next several months, I've laid in bed for 48 hours now with the flu. This foul beast has struck me at the most inopportune of time. Nevertheless, I've decided to put my small amount of remaining energy in my bones into crafting one of the Norway posts that I mentioned would happen a week or so after my last post.... back in September :). I promise that I'm not trying to do this! I just get busy with other life things. Oh and I went to Hawaii in November... so that's going to need a post in itself.

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