This is our 1st of January picture.  It was taken about 3:00 p.m. and it was cold and snowy.  We did hear birds but it was too cold to find out where or what they were.  I wanted to try to take more pictures but the batteries were dying and the camera was really cold.

Yesterday I watched a kdrama called Let's Eat.  It's a bout a divorced woman who lives alone and likes it except for the fact that she can't really go anywhere to eat by herself and she really enjoys good food.  It talks about friendships formed around food and there is a mystery going on in the background.  I'm not an adventurous eater but the way this food is filmed makes me want to try it.  Up until this drama all the ones I have watched have been finished so I could watch them all at once.  I don't know how many episodes this will have but only five are out right now, most dramas I have watched have 16-20.  I'll have to find another one to watch wile I wait for new episodes.

For my crafting I did work on my shawl but it is going really slowly.  I am being fanatical about stitch counts.  Between that and reading subtitles I haven't gotten much done.  Since today is a WOW day I won't get much done today either.  We did get the tree mostly down (it's fake), took our walk and kind of made play dough yesterday. Today's plan is to finish putting away the Christmas things and write the "thank you" cards.

I read the recipe for the play dough but didn't read the quantities for the ingredients.  I started the play dough then realized I didn't have near enough salt, so I decided to substitute sugar.  I was going to have to throw it away so I figured it couldn't hurt to try.  It kind of worked.  The dough was extra sticky so I kneaded it with flour and it seemed fine.  We kneaded in food coloring so it got all over out hands.  We took a picture of the play dough and my hands so I will show those to you later.  Today when the kids tried to play with the play dough again it was really sticky and not ball like at all (almost melted) so we used more flour.  If worse come to worse we will throw it away but it kept the TV off for a little wile.

NerdWars ended on the 28th of December so now there is a month off before it starts again in February.  Now is the time for new teams to form (looks like there will be a steam punk team this time) and old teams to decide if they are going to stick around (the Sherlock team has been confirmed).  Shady Cels will be around but we have a couple of changes.  One is our team manager will be stepping down.  Real life comes first and she will still play just not as manager.  I think a new one has been found but I'm not sure yet.  Right now we are debating the inclusion of live action versions of comic.  Right now we include comics, cartoons, manga, anime and web comics.  So for example we include Marvel comic books but the X-Men or Avengers movies are not part of it (unless they are animated).  Marvel can be claimed clamed by the Disney team (since Disney owns the rights) but there are other things like the kdrama version of Boys Over Flowers or the live action version of Kenshin that are not claimed.  Overlap is ok like Team One More Page (books) and Team Precious (Tolkine) so we could have Marvel too.  We are trying to see if this would be beneficial to our team or not.  The other issue under discussion is CGI.  It is animation but  how much of it needs to be in a movie before it counts for our team.  Ah the politics of a game. 

I guess that's it for today.  If NerdWars sounds fun please come over to the NerdWars group in Ravelry.  If you like something there is probably a team for it.