Its only half way through November, and I think the weather has already arrived. We've had wind storms the past 2 nights, and last night the power was out for hours. Up on Mount Baker, its been snowing for 2 weeks and they already opened the slopes... but they say its an El Nino year, which means its supposed to be dry. Hrm. These Pacific Northwesterners sure have a funny notion of what "dry" is.

Anyway, its actually quite beautiful, even with the wind and rain. I'm hoping that it snows soon - down here, off the mountain, so that we can have some of that lovely white stuff and not have to drive to get to it. I doubt it'll happen. And if it does, it will probably be the night before I'm supposed to come home, and somehow they'll cancel my flight - those things would happen.

Speaking of coming home, I'll be there in just a month! I'm so excited! I've had a few guests these past couple weeks, and they've been lovely! But they also reminded me of all the fantastic people I'll hopefully get to see very soon (read: having them here made me homesick!). I'm going to miss out on delicious family Thanksgiving. But I'm going to try and make up for it by cooking up a storm over here. My roommate is having some of his grad school buddies here, so it should be a good time - lots of eating and drinking, I'm hoping.

Dad wants me to put up photos so that he can show them off to everyone in the family while they are at my Aunt and Uncle's house for Thanksgiving... I'll see if I get around to that this weekend...