Getting TO work was no problem at all as the snow hadn’t started yet. Home was another matter. Had to clear about 9-10” of snow off the car and the roads were lousy lousy lousy...but I made it. Once I got home everything was fine and since it appears to have stopped snowing everything should be more or less normal tomorrow.
In years past I would have most likely had to figure out a way to stop by a liquor store, horrible weather or not. So glad not to have -that- in the mix.
Oh but that reminds me: Youngest was sick on Monday when I did the shopping and strawberry is her favorite flavor but she does -not- like strawberry-kiwi at all so finding strawberry -juice- was pretty impossible...till I thought of daiquiri/margarita mixer. We have to dilute it with water (I think club soda would be better but she hates fizzy drinks) but it is indeed strawberry and more or less juice, although on the syrupy side.
I really hope the weather is decent tomorrow as I need to do the Big Loop again. Sigh. But if it isn’t I will cancel.
Wednesday, February 7, 2018
Tuesday, February 6, 2018
Day 626
An agreeably uneventful day.
Another way of seeing it is as the calm before a storm: enough snow is expected that school is already canceled. Pity I can’t also take a snow day but as a boss for an essential-services department it would be hypocritical as hell if I did...so in I shall go. I already have the big pushbroom from our front porch in the back of the car as the 8-12” of snow is supposed to happen during the day. You would think, as much snow as we have here, that someone would have built a coveted parking garage a decade or two ago but no. My understanding is that the village powers-that-be think a parking garage would be ugly and might detract from the historic beauty of the town. I think snow on my car is ugly.
But now sleep. Adventure awaits.
Another way of seeing it is as the calm before a storm: enough snow is expected that school is already canceled. Pity I can’t also take a snow day but as a boss for an essential-services department it would be hypocritical as hell if I did...so in I shall go. I already have the big pushbroom from our front porch in the back of the car as the 8-12” of snow is supposed to happen during the day. You would think, as much snow as we have here, that someone would have built a coveted parking garage a decade or two ago but no. My understanding is that the village powers-that-be think a parking garage would be ugly and might detract from the historic beauty of the town. I think snow on my car is ugly.
But now sleep. Adventure awaits.
Monday, February 5, 2018
Day 625
Everything started catching up with me today.
It -kept- snowing, far more than expected and enough to close the schools. Also got lots colder. With those two things as background I got hit with the travel fatigue and still had to do the stupid shopping. However my fancy Hawaiian chocolate arrived so that helped...as did a nice shower bath (that’s where you take a shower to get clean then fill the tub to soak) and going to bed at 9pm. Good thing too as I walked in the door really tired and cranky.
Finished Girl Walks Out of a Bar at lunchtime today - it was an interesting read but not as thick and chewy as, say, Caroline Knapp or Augusten Burroughs.
And now early to bed means early to sleep. Good sleep always rocks.
Sunday, February 4, 2018
Day 624
Drove home this morning. Left way early because snow was predicted for afternoon up here and of course I didn’t want to go and it was hard. At least I very sensibly ate a good breakfast before heading out - usually I don’t and then I get too hungry. Well surprise!!! The snow started far earlier than expected. The last third of my trip was Just. Awful. An hour of no faster than 45-50 mph on interstate with either 65 or 70mph speed limit then 45 minutes of no faster than 30 mph on a state highway with speed limit of 55 mph and drove (crept!) by several cars off the road. Had planned to do the grocery shopping this afternoon but fuck that - I put the car in the garage as soon as I got in and and announced I was not going out again till tomorrow morning. I keep the house well-stocked enough that even after being gone from Friday morning till Sunday noon I didn’t -have- to go out.
Then it just -kept- snowing. The weather people had predicted 3-5” in total but we already had that much on the ground by the time I got home all cranky and traumatized. We now have closer to eight or nine inches.
After I got home the very first thing I did was take a good hour to relax on the couch. I was kind of wrecked from so -much- bad weather driving. However once I recovered I fed the critters, made chili for the humans, cleaned the bathroom, shoveled the front-of-the-house walkway, did laundry and made the good brownies from The Joy of Cooking. I had a lot of nervous energy to burn.
Even after all that I was in bed for the night at 9:30 which is where I’m writing this blog post. Formerly I would have been so stressed from the driving that I would have stopped at the liquor store on the way home and spent the rest of the evening getting tanked to make up for the trauma of the drive...and used the excuse of “it’s the Super Bowl so -everyone- will be drinking on a work night and hung over in the morning” as an excuse to make sure I got -enough- which is to say more than my usual amount. Would have done all kinds of stupid stuff like pumping fluids or eating late at night to attempt not to have the inevitable lousy sleep and shitty morning too.
It is just so -good- to be off _that_ merry-go-round.
Then it just -kept- snowing. The weather people had predicted 3-5” in total but we already had that much on the ground by the time I got home all cranky and traumatized. We now have closer to eight or nine inches.
After I got home the very first thing I did was take a good hour to relax on the couch. I was kind of wrecked from so -much- bad weather driving. However once I recovered I fed the critters, made chili for the humans, cleaned the bathroom, shoveled the front-of-the-house walkway, did laundry and made the good brownies from The Joy of Cooking. I had a lot of nervous energy to burn.
Even after all that I was in bed for the night at 9:30 which is where I’m writing this blog post. Formerly I would have been so stressed from the driving that I would have stopped at the liquor store on the way home and spent the rest of the evening getting tanked to make up for the trauma of the drive...and used the excuse of “it’s the Super Bowl so -everyone- will be drinking on a work night and hung over in the morning” as an excuse to make sure I got -enough- which is to say more than my usual amount. Would have done all kinds of stupid stuff like pumping fluids or eating late at night to attempt not to have the inevitable lousy sleep and shitty morning too.
It is just so -good- to be off _that_ merry-go-round.
Saturday, February 3, 2018
Day 623
Good day.
Slept in a bit, ate too much good food, went shopping with Eldest...it’s good to be down here and will be so hard to leave in the morning.
No words of wisdom today either...Well except for “sober is better. May not seem like it at first but it really truly is.”
Slept in a bit, ate too much good food, went shopping with Eldest...it’s good to be down here and will be so hard to leave in the morning.
No words of wisdom today either...Well except for “sober is better. May not seem like it at first but it really truly is.”
Friday, February 2, 2018
Day 622
Drive from one house to the other today. It was long and tedious except for the two snow squalls which were hard and worrisome but blissfully short.
No words of wisdom - or any other kind - tinight. I just want sleep
No words of wisdom - or any other kind - tinight. I just want sleep
Thursday, February 1, 2018
Day 621
Long day and tired finally caught up to me in a big way. Might wake up in the middle of the night but I need to sleep right now...was dozing off in my chair.
Probably a belly full of ice cream sundae has something to do with it.
Probably a belly full of ice cream sundae has something to do with it.
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