Ahhh yes, another weekend down and another Monday here again. This Monday will be different than the other Mondays this month - Hubby goes back to work - yeah - Actually a relief after the three week strike. They voted and settled on a pretty good contract. His pension is intact, health coverage is there and they even got a pretty nice bonus check to boot. Sometimes I think this was just in the companies master plan. They had bikes warehoused, there was talk of laying off......of course some of it was hearsay and we may never know the whole truth but I'm just thankful they are going back to work. But I send one back and two remain at home this coming week. Both daughters have spring break at college and have the week off. We had a snow/ice storm today so I'm glad they won't be driving.

I was actually bored today. Oh I had plenty of things I could have done, I just didn't feel like doing them. I did a lot of cooking and watching movies though. I watched The Prestige for the second time Saturday night. I thought it was a good movie- it kept my mind thinking. Today I saw Inside Man and that was pretty good. Some others that I watch for the most part were Copland, Contact, Health Inspector (Larry the Cable Guy). I've had my fill. That was probably the most television I've seen in a very long time!

Things with my mother are going okay. I've had to switch around some appointments of mine to accommodate hers. She is getting her cataracts removed starting next week with the right. It's a lot of running but I will make sure she doesn't overtax us with requests as she usually does. She is one of those people who takes a foot when given an inch.

Things with Doc are okay. He leaves for a week-long vacation this coming Saturday. The best thing about that is that I watch his two kitties - Lucy and Tina.


Such cutie pies...

We do need a break from each other. As well as we get along we have been, oh okay it's been me, have been clashing as well. I'm just feeling a strain. The strain is coming from not getting from the relationship some satisfaction that I want. I'm not referring to sexual satisfaction, I'm just talking personal satisfaction. I've mentioned this before about expectations and acknowledgement and yes, appreciation. It has to do with those things. I've been trying to deal with it and perhaps this is where the frustration is coming from. A break is what we need.

Well, I still have to work later so I'm off to bed. Hopefully this week will go by smoothly and painless....

Oh what fun winter is? I'm being sarcastic of course because I particularly do not like winter weather, especially in the middle of February after all that beautiful fall-like weather we had earlier in the year. But it's not important what I like and don't like when storms come this way. It's gonna happen regardless and it did. It started innocently enough but then got nasty. Snow is always beautiful coming down....for the first ten minutes. It turned to sleet, rain and then snow again.


I don't know what happened to snow plows. The road in front of our house is a state road but no plows went all day Wednesday. Finally after the sleet and rain and the refreezing of the slush on the road, a plow came by. By this time, the damage was done and ruts were frozen to the road. The roads were dangerous. We had no where to go Wednesday so that was a good thing. I work at home, the girls' college was closed and of course hubby was still on strike.



Thank goodness he doesn't picket till Saturday. He pickets one time a week for three hours and luckily it's 9 a.m. to noon. The last time they were on strike over 12 years ago his time to picket was 3 a.m. in the morning for two hours. He came to bed an ice cube and he had to do that twice a week. Majority of the population around here are supporting the workers. Then there are those who don't know all the facts and spout off their idiotic statements making them look like true morons. Luckily most of the workers just ignore them or some try to educate with the facts. It's easy to form an opinion but I have always been very cautious where and when I say mine. I can't expect everyone else to do that.

So, today most schools were closed except the college my girls go to. They had a two hour delay. Since my oldest's car was sitting in a parking lot where she hit a curb and bent the rim when the snow first started on Tuesday, my hubby drove them to school. He stayed in and hung out with college crowd. I, of course, stayed home and worked. They made it home safely. Classes were canceled for the afternoon, the evening and Friday. Go figure (should have canceled them ALL today).

The temperatures aren't suppose to get warm enough to soften the ice boulders so driving and digging out will remain a bit hair-raising till it does.

I hope everyone else weathered things well.