Gesundheit!

I baked shortbread this afternoon using butter that expired in July.
Pros: I know how to bake shortbread now.
Cons: I don't want to eat those cookies.

Also, over the course of the year I somehow lost my ability to deal with the cold. It's about 40 degrees in Plano right now and I'm already dying, and then I look at the weather forecast for Chicago and think, hm, negative windchill. After a year, I forgot that was possible.

Dear friends: prepare yourselves for my chagrin come winter quarter, when the winds are howling, the snow is piling, and I am crying into my pillow for the sun to come back.