December 31 Run: Coffee Tree at Bakery Square (at 7) and New Year's Day Run: 61C Cafe (at 7:30)

We're meeting on Sunday at the Coffee Tree at Bakery Square mainly because we were thinking of somewhere with a fireplace, and it was either that or Dunkin' Donuts.  Which actually is not bad, but from here we can go in many directions, including one that covers 5 neighborhoods in an hour.  If you don't want to deal with the parking mishegas at Bakery Square, just park in the Mellon Park lot where Beechwood meets Fifth (map) and its a short walk through the park.  On Monday, default holiday run at 7:30 from 61C cafe.

As I have been too lazy to report on the last 3 runs (which included Christmas day) and am already late with this one, let's just say they were bracing but warmed by companionship, metabolic body heat and cashmere mittens.  (If you don't have a pair, tell us on the run and we'll correct that injustice - perks!)
I managed to hold on to endorsements:

• Christmas cookie exchanges - and spending an entire day making hundreds in preparation
• See above - the discovery that the perfect stamp for thumbprint cookies is a dreidel
• Menorah-mobiles and the annual parade - pretty great in concept but could we please have some creativity?  (as in hearing aids below)
• Writer Rebecca Traister and again podcasts - here together!
• Napping
• Hip hearing aids 
• Aimee's long-ago bracelet factory
• Moon Hikes, Radical Rodents and other events at the Frick Environmental Center
• Christmas choral concerts -  Heinz Chapel Choir and Pittsburgh Camerata - literally divine
• USAToday editorial responding to certain comments on Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand 
• Need to investigate:  cars lined up every night on Forbes in front of CMU delivering homemade (?) Chinese takeout - any info?  
• More Chinese food:  B52 Restaurant in Lawrenceville. More Mexican food: Bull River Taco in Squirrel Hill
• TV - Offspring, Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
• Movies - The Crown, Lady Bird, Shape of Water
• Podcasts - Slow Burn (how much we have to learn from Watergate - riveting)

wow - that was 3 napkins worth.