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January 14, 2007
Freedom... briefly
So. On Wednesday we got some snow... about 3 inches or so. Unlike most snow events around here, the temperature didn't immediately climb back to the 40s, and melt all the pretty snow. When you don't do anything about snow, and people drive on it, it compacts into ice. This then refreezes into a mess. With the nifty new rear-wheel drive car, and too much horsepower, we opted to stay home til it's gone. I called the vet on Friday and cancelled Gbic's surgery -- we'll reschedule this coming week. Since she's on antibiotics, I felt okay about postponing it -- she hasn't been scratching and thus far, she hasn't been getting sick from the antibiotics.
On the positive side, I've been cooking at home since Tuesday, and going through some of the chest freezer treasures. Lots of hits, a couple of misses, but overall, we've been doing pretty well. We started running low on toilet paper (I'd been holding out for costco's coupon this month), things to drink, milk, and eggs. Then Richard started getting sick. Snotty sick. Yucky sick. He's now tagged me, and I think even Gbic's a bit under the weather. Everyone sick, and no cold products!
Today we slept half the day, miserably, I might add. But, it was also sunny all day. And relatively warm compared to the bitter cold of the past few days. We decided to make a run for it this afternoon :) Richard hadn't had a cheeseburger in nearly a week, so we hit Wendy's first. My food was meh, but I'm also to the point where I can't taste things either. While we were partaking of our meal in the car, we saw the cutest tubby little squirrel. Richard was too hot in the car, so he opened the window. Tubby Squirrel came running up to the car, apparently expecting french fries. Guess we know how he got tubby, eh? So Richard tossed a fry out to him. Then I tossed a few out, and Mr. Tubby Squirrel picked them up one by one and ate them with extreme cuteness.
Then I hit Bartells for every cold, cough and sore throat remedy they had. Halls drops, N'Ice drops, Cloraseptic strips, Dayquil, Nyquil, etc etc. Also picked up some Breathe Right strips in both mentholated and plain so that Richard and I can attempt to breathe tonight. Woo. After that I went to Larry's because it was right next to Bartell's. Stocked up on more stuff, though it was kind of random and haphazard shopping.
Looking at the weather forecast, looks like we may be stuck in here for another few days at least before temps climb high enough to get sustained melting to get rid of the ice sheets. Wheee!
Posted by jodikins at January 14, 2007 4:31 PM