Non-productivity is fine too.

Cheap wine and caffeine just aren't the same the second winter in a row. Granted, today had less of a leisurely feel to it than the wasteland of last winter. That's because winter really hasn't started yet. Sure there's snow on the ground and the temperature was zero when I woke up today but that's apparently fall in Chicago. The main difference is that I worked today. I drove a small group of Chinese business people on a very businesslike day of fun and effectiveness and keeping schedule. They were good people. I gave them a slow tour so that translation could take place and at the end I said "hsieh hsieh" which means thank you in some dialect of chinese.
Then I went home and Scott came over. He brought a big jug of wine. We very quickly decided that we weren't going to write anything today for the show in January. We filmed something really quickly. But then we decided that neither creativity nor productivity was not in the cards today. Two glasses of six dollar wine and a coke didn't seem to help the productivity so we decided, "hey, we haven't gotten together just to hang out in a long time." So we did that. We read from an astrology book about our destinies. Twice we read the article in the book that we assumed was about our birthdates and said, "That's pretty good" before we realized we were reading the wrong article about the wrong date.
We watched the last hour of "The Jerk". Hey, Ed Ed Potatoe Head! Steve Martin reminded me a little of you in that film. Then I fed him. I fed him food that he missed because he was unable to attend the employee Christmas party. Luckily I'm married to a member of the management team. They get to steal leftovers from parties and bring them home. Now everyday will be Christmas until we run out of mostacciolli and chicken.
Then I fell asleep and woke to Scott softly kissing me on my stuff. My good stuff. My excellent stinky stuff. And then I woke up again to find him on the couch and me in a chair. We were both exhausted. Weird. King of the Hill was on. Scott left.
What a great predictor of the winter ahead!