“Oh the weather outside is frightful,
But the fire is so delightful,
And since we've no place to go,
Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
It doesn't show signs of Pausing,
And I've bought some corn for popping,
The lights are turned way down low,
Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!”
Let It Snow was created by lyricist Sammy Cahn and the composer Jule Styne in 1945. If you remember, it was also used in the Bruce Willis film Die Hard, when the hero, John McLain was traveling to meet his family at Christmas. We can safely say that John didn’t have cabin fever. However the ‘frightful’ weather didn’t affect his creativity in the least.
Inspiration being what it is, no doubt Sammy Cahn had some experience with being snowed in and probably with cabin fever. However, not all deal with cabin fever quite so creatively.
Does Cabin Fever affect your creativity?
Are you more creative at these times or less?
A warm fire to dream by, have a glass of wine, hot-cocoa, maybe some brandy, or coffee and a laptop...Laptop?
Isn't this the perfect time to dream and write?
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How was yours? I'll have to go check out your icon. Looks like Jake giving Mom a hug which is always a great gift!
Kris and I were looking at booking a vacation last night...It's sad that it costs so much to go where we want... :(
Judi, I posted some links to pics of Sparky over the holidays - that's where I've been. lol
How were your holidays?
I want that chair too. It's been ordered and is en route, but, with all this editing/sitting, I can really use it! It even massages the bottom of your feet! Hubs already knows he's not going to see me once that thing is installed. LOL. He did tell me I can name the chair, but he has to approve of the name. Sadly, Fabio was not on the list of approved names.
Lol, that's great. Ask him if you can name it Wombat?
Hey Lisa!
"Where have you been Judi?"
"I've spent the last 3 hours with Fabio. Why?"
LMAO
Back to writing goeth I..
"Oh, I feel soooo GOOD!. Fabio gives the best massages" lmao!
I am having way too much fun.
This is what cabin fever does to me.
Loved all the pictures. Now I have to go finish this scene so I can call it a night. These days, all I do is the gym, hook up something electronic for the kids and write. Thank God Hubs is working from home this week, so he brings me my meals.
I'm thinking the chair has a name now...
Oh, on a sad note, my 93 year old great aunt had a stroke before Christmas and her kids had to make the decision to pull the feeding tube, so that's what's going on in the extended family. Very sad.
My boys are watching an old Stevie Ray Vauhn concert on TV.. "I'm her little lover boy..."
Let it Snow, Sia? Blank stare. We'll see what you think about that song when you have 50 inches of snow in 10 days. New total is 50 inches. AAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!
Judi I may need to visit Fabio.
The older my parents get the older old gets. Mom is 84 and Dad will be 87 on the 13th of January.
and now I'm done the scene, I'm 32 pages ahead of schedule so I'm calling it an early editing night and going out to reconnect with the family.
I'm not getting paid enough...
I did write last night, though -- two sentences. Only took me two hours. I know what I want to say, it's finding the truth beneath the words that's difficult.
Rob, I second Sia on the "you make me laugh" stuff. I do love reading what you write!
And SIA!! YOU MADE A LINKY! W00t! Great article!
I write best when it's cold. In the summer I want to be out by the pool and I'm too easily distracted. From November to May seems to be my writing period. Then again, a lot depends on what else is going on in my life. Some folks use writing as a distraction from real life. For me, if real life gets too sucky, I can't write. But winter is good. I actually wrote some more in my current WIP on Friday. I need to plug in the flash drive and see how much.Maybe a thousand words?
Rachael, bummer on editing the seriously sucky thing. I'd send you Ashes, but I wouldn't want you to be overloaded on the suckilicious stuff!
I've been reading wombat stuff today, not to edit, but to offer high level overview. Thank goodness, wombats know how to write and tell wonderful stories!
Guess what Pat...that means that you can't be suckilicious. Thus, you must send me Ashes.
I'll send you my email address :)
Anyway, yes, I've seen you do a few BQS, Pat, lolol! Though thankfully it wasn't on any of mine...
I've been wanting to read Ashes...*she says wistfully...
Somehow getting sick right after Thanksgiving for a couple weeks threw my entire schedule down the drain. *SIGH* Made it through. Yeah!
Judy, Fabio sounds like a perfect name to me.
Sia, just trying to catch up here. Have done NOTHING writing wise. *Hangs head in shame* It's true.
If you want, go check out the new Sparky pics I put up - they should make you smile. :)
This stupid project is eating my brain.
I can feel myself getting stupider as I go...
Stupid you will never be, my dear.
Finishing the last of online shopping gifts to friends, etc.
Can you believe it? After the 4 degree, pipe-freezing weather on Monday, it was 68 degrees today. Still 61 as I'm writing this at 11:05. Had friends over today for some holiday cheer and we sat on my porch for a while. Sheesh. The warmth isn't supposed to last through tomorrow, but it was a nice respite.
And for me, tomorrow's a work day; the first official day with the new company. Hopefully, the working on Sunday thing is a one-time event. We're starting a day early because it's a holiday week, and we lose a day that we'd normally have to get things done, and because we're not accustomed to their software. I'm going in with an optimistic outlook, though. So wish me luck.
I am running all over the place, and will be for a while. Having a great holiday with family and friends. No writing at the moment, since work and related issues are too pressing.
Judi, about your chair. If you decide to call it Fabio, all I can say is this.
"Alora, cara mia, vieni qua, e siedeti su di me. Ci godiamo e scriverei le parole bellissime. Tuo amico, Fabio"
And Jill, it was so warm here today as well. Hot tubbed tonight and so enjoyed the warm air on bare skin! Sorry you have to work tomorrow. Hopefully it won't be a long day for you! Good luck.
And yes, Rachael, you win! Sia, my dear, so do you.
The ancients, and present Contemporaries locked themselves away, within a cave, or oblisque. Someplace solitary for sevral days, no light, no sound, nothing, except vast emptiness, and then emerged into the light of day, with sensory overload. It's been akin to a spiritual revelation. Aristotle, Socrates, Plato, ect, were known to have practiced the ritual.
Later on~
Sniff, I beg to see POA for months and Pat sends it to Rachael.. I may never recover. Pat you could never write suckage. It simply isn't possible.
I'll pop off what I have done Rach. Hopefully it won't make your ears bleed. grin
The entire ending has to be reworked. I took the easy way out when I finished it and it has bugged me ever since. I indulged myself and stretched it out too.. cuz I didn't want it to be over. Yeah, I seem to do that.
Sia the pictures were taken in color. The absence is due to the snow and cloudy skies. Now they say we should get rain. Hang my head.. it just keeps getting better.
Off with me
Judi, Fabio has got to be the name for that fab chair! I am so jealous.
Viv, my dear how nice to see you! Happy New Year and I hope your Christmas was Merry. Pat S.
I didn't enter but I want to win too, please!
Sia, I have finally caught up on the thread, you can call birds??? I used to be able to do that, but only with chickens... oh yeah, I could call the hogs too. hehehe
Good luck on your first day Jill, I know you will do wonderfully well. The same wishes to Dana as well. New jobs are so terrific, no chance to get bored. The worst thing about any job is the eventual boredom that comes when you know just how to do everything.
Sy, great to hear that your holiday is festive. I love it when you speak those romantic phrases.... *sigh* *swoon*
Rachel, I hope you are getting well paid for reading something so bad. When I read things I wrote years ago I can't believe I'd ever thought it was readable. I will be careful before I ever submit anything for your perusal.
No snow here, 51 degrees and rainy, rainy, rainy. But you don't have to shovel rain.
Rachel, your puppy is soooo adorable.
No, I do not speak dog--other than I know how to growl....lolol! Yah, me and wild kingdom, we were pretty tight when I was a kid.....
I've got a new reading project that I'm having trouble pulling myself away from. And since it's not something I can't take to bed and read, I keep telling myself, ok, I'll only read one more chapter and then I'm quitting.
that was several chapters ago.
But my eyes are crossing. So I did close it out. Off to bed with me. Sleep well everyone...May great dreams be yours tonight...
Uh, lessee...I live in Venice. What's cabin fever? Okay, I'm a weather wimp, and when it's gray and gloomy, I love staying indoors and writing. But did I mention I live in Venice? We have no freakin' excuse for cabin fever here. The weather is almost always amazing.
It does get a little hot at times, because living here we don't need a lot of insulation, and we rarely need air conditioning. So when the weather is really warm, it can be a little tough. I find I have to vacate Shack by the Sea from about 2 pm till 6 cause it just gets too hot and stuffy.
That and actually having to, you know, work, are the main things that impact my productivity. On the other hand, I have been putting in 12 hour days (plus) doing editing since the weather turned a little colder. So I'm going to guess that I'm more productive in the winter than the summer.
Just a guess.
Those around me say that I have two inate(sp?) gifts, being able to put any unhappy baby to sleep and to calm any upset animal - perhaps they are the same gift? My younger son says that I am the calm in the middle of any storm, like a bubble of quiet. That came in handy when his wife gave birth to the twin grandsons. I was on tap for diaper changings, feedings and lulling to sleep. Arent grandchildren the best thing?
Judi, I love your chair. Fabio or not, it's wonderful.
Winter writing? I'm not sure that the seasons or the weather has an impact on when I write or on the number of words I get done. I do get more reading done when it's really hot or really cold, mostly because I have no idea to go outside.
Vivian. Welcome back. I missed you enough for two so that cancels Paul out. :)
Wanda, 'tis a skill to be envied, to be able to soothe the small creatures of the world.
I'm going to have to tell Hubs that Wombats have named my chair and I had absolutely nothing to do with it. ;}
Sy, I need a translation. i can do a few of those words, but I'm sure I'm missing the whole thing.
Off to edit. Just got back from the gym. Yes, i have been going every morning except the 25th, for 2 hours b/c the back is so annoying. I can't wait for Fabio to show up. (yes, I do like saying that. Fabio it is!)
oh, and Pat - I had Golden Grahams.
Fabio/vibrate. May I exchange my gifts?
Jill, good luck, I hope you enjoy your new job. We're in the same boat.
Sia, we really do have quite a lot in common. From teenage sons to speaking chickenese and our granddaughters look a little alike. I keep saying I'm going to post more pictures but I need my daughter to send them first.
Wanda, thanks. I'll need all the luck and prayers I can get, it's going to be a tough adjustment for me.
Pat S, I was up into the wee hours of the morning...
And, as far as the subject of this thread goes, I'm new to all this so have no experience to share but it seems a good snow storm could lend to creativity.
DanaS, that's actually, my grandniece. I've got a few years before Jake produces Grandchildren. but my Niece Deanna has always been like a daughter to me. I was there when she was born and I did her footprint on to the birth certificate--managing to get part of my fingerprint on it too, lolol! I almost had to deliver her too, came REALLY close, as in she was crowning. the doctor came it just at that moment.
Being snowed in with a nice warm fire, a brandy, a laptop (and a couple of beagles, of course)... HEAVEN. I love being at home, and being free of demands to go out and do things would be "Cabin Delight" for me.