First blog. Let’s see, eh?
I’ve been feeling aversion to the social medias lately, but still harbor that decades-old urge to blog. Only back then we called it journaling. :::shakes cane::: It was the 90s, it was a strange time during the budding frenzy of the internet. Everyone had to number their friends/family and learn HTML… templates are supposed to be easier but I don’t understand how to work comments (gotta go through an error first, sorry).
I want to write about life sometimes, without the constant mining and chastising me if I swear while I scroll past dozens of -ist posts a week. And I want more than 280 characters. I feel like my writing muscles have cramped a bit and part of that is that I’m not using them. I feel like I can’t start on my WIPs cold turkey (I’m not 100% sure I know what I mean by that, it’s more of a feeling really), and I sort of push it off. I’m hoping this will get the ol’ muscle memory kicking and Bob’s yer uncle (profit?).
So we don't have mail service this week and the kids are out of school an extra week- because of snow and province Covid response, respectively. 🙃
I mean. I am torn. I feel terrible. There is snow everywhere... It's SO fucking gorgeous. The kids can play in the snow anytime they want. There are icicles, the pics are amazing- I am working on a Flickr. 🥺🤲🏻❄️
BUT. But. This area is not equipped to deal with this. There are only like a dozen snow plows- and they've been busting ass for the last 4 days because it snowed non-stop for 3 of those days and on/off the other. It is also currently snowing and has been for the last four hours. Prior to that, it had been the first day without snow.
Everywhere is ice. I wanted to buy salt (didn't really want to ice skate my way to/from the car, especially carrying groceries, but here we are) I'm just not sure I can find any. They stopped the ferries. They stopped the mail. I imagine they are going to have even more delays on supplies/deliveries this week. ☹️
I went grocery shopping with the elder spawn today and it was kind of scary. I am so so thankful we got the Jeep Compass with 4x4- it has settings, one is snow. It kicked in several times. Lots of ice on the roads, the main highways were plowed and very clear but the rest require much slower and more careful driving. Not that I wasn't going 20kph under the limit there, too.
We had to trudge through 3" of salt slush in the grocery store parking lot. Lots of things sold out. I built our menu for the week around what was available (got the last pork roast and HUGE poblanos), and we are avoiding driving for the most part. Even though there are lots of things we want to do- it's just too dangerous.
I did have kids come to the door offering to shovel our driveway for $10. I gave them $11 because that's all I had in cash- I'd have given them $15 or $20. I was *jazzed* about it, ftr, and they did a great job.
Middle child is signed up for his first Covid vaccine on Friday. I'm signed up for my booster on Jan 9 and Charles on Jan 11. Elderspawn just got the 2nd dose at the end of May. I think under 18 can't do 3rd yet here anyway. Jan is first for over 18 without increased risk. I'm working on Beast’s. I have to call Medical Services, the personal health number I have is wrong or "invalid" so I have to get that fixed. But they were closed Tuesday for Stat- which is short for statutory holiday and *that* happens when a holiday falls on a weekend and fucks everyone out of a day off- they give it off anyway. Monday and apparently Tuesday if it's Christmas/Boxing day. Neat for them, confusing and frustrating for me to call on a Tuesday and get "we're closed, call back :::days/hours:::" Then I had a bunch of stuff today and that one slipped. So that's on tomorrow's agenda along with calling the vet to refill Mim's pain pills.
