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Yes, it’s that time again: The Big Picture Blog of the Boston Globe has the third annual Hubble Space Telescope Advent Calendar up. Get a new space picture a day from now until Christmas!
Because if you’re wrapped up in your first-world problems and feeling irritated and put-upon, a picture of new stars forming in a nebula 7,500 light years away really puts things into perspective.
(More details, including a Lord of the Rings reference–thanks, NASA!)
The snow came early and deep this year, and I’m trying to be resigned because we have three more months of it. But I think a new winter coat would help me be more resigned. Since I decided I didn’t want to make an orange one, I found some colorful alternatives*–because we’re going to need color to get through this.
J. Crew, finally on sale a little:
Vintage plaid on Etsy:
And a vintage CAPE (!):
Of course, with a cape you can’t wear a bag over your shoulder, so I’d need to get a new winter purse, too. I’d take this one if someone were giving them away:
Oh hai, typewriter purse. You should live with me.
*I have plenty of warm coats already and none of these (especially that purse) are in the budget, but just indulge me in my First World Problem, OK?