I was up at 2a and no snow. I was up at 7a and there was snow. Problem is Gator wouldn’t let me go back to sleep. So I rose from the bed and passed out breakfast for the crew. The snow is still coming down now and it’s almost 10:30a. When I left the house around 8:30a it was to the point of getting messy. By the time I had my breakfast and chatted with my favorite waitress it was starting to get bad. I went grocery shopping and 1/2 way through the store I started the car to warm it up. I made it through the rest of the store and trudged my way to loading the groceries in and just after I did that the motor shut off. That was 15 minutes. I started it right back up and made my way to the gas station. The credit card reader was iced up, so I had to clear it out and insert my card a couple times. The gas nozzle it’s self was covered with snow. I brushed it off but I know for sure some water/moisture got in my tank. The tank is full and then some. So I have no worries. I made my way home and had a couple of fish tailing incidents which were kind of fun since there wasn’t anyone around but that could have easily gone bad. By this time it was really best to head the travel advisory and stay in doors. So I am glad to be home, warm and the car is thawing out in the garage.
I need to even up the air pressure in the tires and do not look forward to that task. It is getting close to oil change and maintenance time, which won’t be cheap. This will be the one where they change the filters. Not exactly sure how they will rotate the tires but that needs to be done. It sounds like one of them is out of balance at least to me. I’ve been looking at new vehicles and found one that is identical to mine just has more features and is a model year newer. Retail the estimate payment is lower than what I am paying now. Kind of makes me interested.
I actually looked at apartments last night online. There is a place I pass on my way home and it doesn’t look like much from the outside but my it’s really nice on the inside. Luxury living at $1,400 per month. Yeah and there isn’t any equity building so that is not an option because it’s rental only. It does look nice and they do offer a lot of things including a pool and movie theater but I don’t want to pay that for rent. I found another place that isn’t far from my house and it would be a townhome but they charge a $30 cat deposit and then $30 month rent per cat in addition to your rent. Yeah that’s not going to happen either. I get the deposit part but paying rent for having an animal live with you that is bullshit. At least it’s the same price for a cat or dog but still it’s bullshit. I am not moving but the thought is as tempting as getting a new vehicle. It was interesting to see what was out there and maybe it’s something I will do at some point in time. Right now I am staying put the mortgage payment is comfortable it’s the maintenance that I don’t like.
So my plans for the rest of the day are to piddle, clean house, shave & shower. Then make a pizza and watch some TV. A usual lazy Sunday and who knows I could even squeeze in a nap.
Tomorrow will start an on-call week for me. We had a device fail last week so it’s been slightly busier than normal but hopefully things will settle down. I have plenty in my own job to keep me busy without additional problems cropping up. My boss published our operations guide and basically it states the obvious for what is required on our job and how we are supposed to treat each other. It’s all common sense stuff that shouldn’t have to be written out. However, reading it I can tell that there were other situations and incidents that occurred without my knowledge. I think this is a last ditch effort to CYA and put it in writing before they actually send someone packing. I can’t say that I know that for certain but it’s an assumption and I could be entirely wrong. I can tell you that it is overwhelmingly frustrating and beyond my comprehension why we have tolerated bad behavior for so long. I think that if it was me being the fuck up that I would have been kicked to the curb a long time ago. For some reason they are willing to keep passing out one more chances and it works for a while then a fuck up happens and were back to square one. It’s like the definition of insanity you keep doing the same thing over and over again but expecting different results. Not gonna happen.
The vet just called Marv’s blood work is back. Turns out his Thyroid level is way down. He was at at a 18.5 and now he is at a 7. They like for it to be under 4. While I did change up his medicine for a while I eventually went back to a normal dose and while he isn’t where he needs to be he isn’t far out of whack. So they would like for me to increase a little bit but I think were going to stay where were at now. The blood work cost the most but it also gave me the most peace of mind. The results weren’t expected until Monday and I am super surprised that they came back so quickly. Now I will need to wait a bit and then go get Momma’s blood drawn to check out her Thyroid.
Well almost time to swap loads of laundry and then go curl up in front of the TV with the children. I hope that your all staying warm, enjoying what is left of the weekend and are well. I’ll chat with you again soon. Here’s hoping for some more good news to share.
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