Snow Business

I don't know what's worse, piles of snow or the melting of the piles of snow. At least with the melting, the driveway is almost free of the dreaded ice ruts. I moved most of the wood pile down to the boiler with only a couple of mishaps. Two times the trailer slid off the hard packed snow and into the soft melty stuff and tipped over. I had to unload and stack the wood where it fell. I was extra careful the next time and it fucking did it again. The third time I managed to make it through and thank God I was done at that point. Now there's just a small stack of wood that needs to be split and the two loads that are close to the boiler, but not quite there. I wanted to get all the wood moved before melting turned everything into a quagmire.

I finally got most of the Xmas decorations put away. I just have the nativity set and a garland and some lights on the high ledge over the tv which requires dragging the ladder up from the basement and maybe talking my neighbor into helping me a bit. And I have the garlands and lights outside that will have to wait for more melting so I don't have to wade through two feet of snow to get to them. I packed everything up into his, hers and ours again and it wasn't bad at all this time. Two months ago I was a mess dividing up the ornaments. Not so much this time. My SIL called as I was in the process and said maybe it means I've taken just about all I can.

Sunny just called and his day is going to shit. He may not be able to make counseling tonite and will probably have to go back to work if he does make it. He's been working alot lately. At least I hope that's what he's doing. I just will never know. Speaking of counseling, our session last week was weird. I think the guy was stoned. All that was missing was the bloodshot eyes and the giggling and he had the stoned on pot thing down. He could have been on some serious pain killers though too. We are giving him 2 more sessions and if things aren't meshing with him, I guess we'll move on. Hope we don't have to do that because I don't want to wade through all that crap again. I think I'd rather just leave. Fake wave and a buh-bye!

I accomplished a lot off my list from last week:

Check- call Red Cross re: volunteering
Check- move wood
Check- get fitted for orthotic (Appt. Wed.)
Check- pay bills
Almost - put away Xmas decorations
Nope - continue working on the bathroom. (Ack, it's been weeks since I did anything in there.)
Check- change and wash the pee blanket on the couch
Nope - (Gross, I know) wash the spaghetti pot
Nope - do the medical acct forms - get that moolah back!
Nope - wash makeup brushes
Check- clean the puke spots on the carpet
Nope - change the rug in the laundry room and wash the floor - then take the rug to the laundromat and wash it in the big commerical washer
Check- get a new taillight for the truck and replace it

Just so I don't look like a total slacker, I also did a bunch of stuff that isn't on this list. Kapish?

New goals for this week:
- put away final Xmas decorations
- continue working on the bathroom
- wash the spaghetti pot
- do the medical acct forms
- wash makeup brushes
- change the rug in the laundry room and wash the floor - then take the rug to the laundromat and wash it in the big commerical washer
- call Red Cross again
- order rust remover
- change water filter on fridge
- call town prez re: dirt bike track
- make appt at vet for Bizzy
- GET SOME EXERCISE!!!

I watched the I Can Make You Thin thing on TLC last night. Interesting that I bought a book in high school (when I was horribly fat at 145 for chrissakes!) that is pretty much the same thing. If only I can follow it. I am going to give this method a shot since it meshes nicely with the upcoming vacation. I need to change the way I think about food. It's interesting that last Oct-Nov I was sort of doing this exact same thing. I would get an Egg Mc Muffin and eat most of it and COULD NOT make myself eat the last few bites. I was full. I was really listening to my stomach. I still mostly do this, but I can't have trigger foods like GS cookies, chocolate and other sweet things in the house. Those foods call to me and I MUST eat them, even if I am full. I want to get to the point where chocolate goes bad and cookies get stale and ice cream gets freezer burned before it gets consumed. I don't want those foods to have that kind of power over me.

Better get on with the day. Bye!