Good morning to everyone!
My first thought is brrrrr... and
-- at
helia's dh out running in 18 degree temps! I am such a sissy. I cannot even IMAGINE going out to exercise in any form or fashion at 18 degrees. Wow. Once it gets into the 30s, I really start complaining, and below freezing -- ooohhh... I just want to curl up and hibernate. Of course, that would explain why helia & dh are both probably in a thousand times better shape than I am...
We had an exciting night. DH, now aka (by me, anyway) as Captain Adventure, decided we would go to a movie, about 40 miles away. I said, "Aren't you worried about the roads?" No, he said, he had driven through the Ozarks in an ice storm. * sheesh * Famous last words. About halfway there, or maybe a little more, he decided maybe we should skip the movie and just eat and go back home. Nothing was open. Apparently most of the world was a lot wiser than we were.
Finally got S ubway sandwiches at a truck stop and started home. We were less than 15 miles from our house when we started up a hill and it was blocked in both lanes by semi-trucks.
Had really been making it fine until then, driving about 20-30 mph. Well... we actually tried to go up the wrong side of the divided 4-lane -- we stalled out. Backed down to the median... turned around... tried a county road, it had hills and curves... stalled out... got out of there... decided to head BACK the way we came and try going home another way, which added about 80 miles to our journey, but was pretty much flat land.
* sheesh * You don't realize how steep some hills are when you're driving on a sunny day. Got almost to the place where we could finally turn and head back in the right direction... and trucks were stopped AGAIN. This time however, they had left one lane open... and with the help of a Good Samaritan, we got through there and finally * FINALLY * were able to make it home. But what should have been a 2-hour round trip ended up taking almost 8 hours.
* shaking my head *
All this while, I was following along on FB with a dcousin whose dh had ended up in the ditch at their neighbors', while taking her to her grandmothers before he started to work. She had told him to call in to work, the roads were too bad. His famous last words were, "I think I can make it." So they ended up in the ditch and walked back to their house. She said, "Now he says, 'Do you want to watch Dumb & Dumber 2?' Hah. Dumb and dumber just walked/crawled across the ice on highway XX."
I didn't tell her on FB how much dumber WE were. Good gracious, we're old enough to know better.
Giving thanks for safe arrival home.
Oh -- and btw -- Captain Adventure has not learned his lesson yet. He said, "I'm just glad I can get out and do this! Someday I'll be in bed like my daddy and can't get out and then I CAN'T do things like this."
* sheesh *
Re: moving or preparing to move, I think that is dh's strategy,
Dee &
Kathryn. He keeps going over to dmil's and sorting through things, throwing out some things, bringing some things home... s l o w l y getting more and more out of the house. We told dbil to make sure he had made his final sweep through before antique lady comes next week b/c at that point, we will be ready to pack it up and move it out. 5 things a day is a great goal,
Dee!
I'm pretty sure I do not sleep well. I don't wake up a lot at night, but I just feel tired a lot of the time. Could be the way I eat, too.
So glad you are safe,
Lynlee!
Harmony, dgs will be spending the night with us tonight. In spite of all dh's complaints re: OTHERS... I doubt if we will make it to church tomorrow. We are just not in practice of getting up in time to feed and clothe a two-year-old, and ourselves, in time for 9:00 a.m. service.
Electricians do some strange things, don't they, Kathryn? Dinlaws' house is so strange. For just one example, they have lights at the driveway. The on/off switch for these lights is in the master bedroom, and the lights themselves cannot even be seen from the master bedroom. That seems so strange to me. Why not by the outside door? It creates a situation that we are always uncertain whether we have turned on those lights or not. I could give many more examples. And dfil wired the house, remember.
I think it's SAFE... just strange.
Love the idea of the ROMEO'S,
Dee. LOL!!!
Hope
Dee and
Harmony both recover from coughing trouble soon!
I really do need to tackle that ironing pile today... and s2s/wash my hair... and finish some laundry.
AND call dmom, which may make everything else impossible. One never knows what that simple phone call will lead to.
last night. After forever (I sit on the couch in the living room & the end table is to my left) of reaching around with my right hand for a drink or whatever something hit me last night. I'm usually the only one on the couch. Sitting in front of me was a lap desk I sometimes use for my laptop. I put that on the couch to my right and got it all situated so it sits level. I now have a very nice 'stand' to my right that I can use quite easily and well. Once in a while the light dawns. I so enjoyed that last night. There is a coffee table in front of me but it's really in front of the love seat and I can't quite reach it without scooching off the couch a bit. (exercise probably wouldn't hurt me.) 
Last night, though, was pretty good.
