I haven't done much on here lately

Things have been kind of hectic with work and life in general. Just trying to get myself ready for the holidays, you know. Today I'm stuck at home - I woke up with a nasty headache this morning and then just as I was getting ready to get into the shower, the handy dandy maintenance man pounded on my door to tell me that there was a sewage back-up and to not flush the toilet. And if I needed to take a shower, I should plug up the drain and keep the water in the tub until they gave me the go-ahead to let it out. Now who in the world wants to have a bathtub full of dirty shower water just sitting there for who knows how long? So I've spent the last four hours listening to them plunge and run drain snakes and who knows what. I hear a vacuum going now, so I'm hoping that means they are about done and I can get back to functioning with normal running water and the ability to take a shower sometime soon. Oh how we neglect the things like this and don't appreciate it until we don't have access to it. Right now I just really want to take a shower.

So right now I'm sitting here watching the snow flurries twist around in the wind and watching a bit if TV and playing dumb games on Facebook because I really can't think of anything better to do. But it's a nice change of pace for once. I painted my nails - something I've been meaning to do for like 3 weeks now and never got around to it. There is a pile of newspapers on the living room floor that really could stand to be put into a recycling bag and taken down to the garbage. And I need to go grocery shopping. But I think I'll sit here and watch the snow instead.

Anyway, back to a few things that I am thankful for today ...

1 - Getting to talk to William for a while yesterday. It's hard when he's not at work and he's at the farm where he can't get a cell signal without climbing up a hill. And he works so hard when he's at the farm that by the end of the day he's completely exhausted. So the conversations are few and far between, so I value them when I do get them.

2 - Fleece jackets. I had to fight to get my lovely dandelion yellow Columbia fleece after I put it on hold at work and a customer ended up taking it off the rack when no one was looking. We called 2 different stores in the area and I had to drive 20 minutes to get it, but it's mine now and no one else can have it. And the lovely person who took mine off the hold rack didn't even end up purchasing it - schmuck.

3 - Snow flurries, especially when it's not coming down a foot a minute and it's just softly drifting through the air.

4 - The unconditional love of my cat, who is now sitting here staring at me because the maintenance guys are running the drain snake through the pipes again and it's kinda freaking her out.

5 - Time with family and friends, even if it is occasionally stressful and you want to roll your eyes at them. They still love you no matter what.