happy hump day

I am very thankful for all the wonderful things in my life right now. I have food on the table, inspite of the economic down swing, I have wonderful friends who know how to lift my spirits and keep me smiling, (inspite of the crap my days have been filled with) and I have my health. I have two aquaintances that are in the hospital today. One, a 23 year old college student who is having an MRI looking for some kind of mass in his brain and the second a 22 (sorry if that is off) year old college student who is having surgery. A couple of years ago, she was diagnosed with a borderline ovarian tumur and it was removed, unfortunately, it has come back. Please keep them and their families in your thoughts over the next couple of days.

Okay got all of that out of the way. On my front, I have just been trying to get back into the swing of things. I really needed, that vacation and now I am ready for another. I think I could lay on the beach all day. Who needs to work, I will just live in my Jeep down by the ocean!

We did have a interesting weather event. Last week it was gorgeous, sunny and 60-80 degrees most of the week. By Friday it was cold, raining, sleeting and eventually snowing. Here in the Ta we got pretty lucky. Mostly ice with about 7 inches of snow. West of us ended up with approximatly 26 inches of snow and 5-6 inch drifts. There are still people without power. I was given a snow day on Friday and decided to be productive. I went grocery shopping. As I am putting all the groceries away several questions ran through my mind. We are living in a new complex, I have no idea how it reacts to weather, how easily do we loose power. It turns out, I fretted for nothing. The only issue I had was that I couldn't get my heater to work. I called maintainence and it took him 3 hours to fix it. He practically replaced the entire unit, but I was toasty that evening.

Have a great rest of the week.