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Mar. 14th, 2013 10:07 amIt was interesting this morning to open the door to walk my son to the bus and see snow. Oh hello snow! It was kind of pretty because there is none on the ground and it was just kind of floating around in the air, kind of like a magical Christmas movie. Anyway.
The ground is still soaked from all the snow melting, and then the rain. Always a lovely combination. My husband and I had to take turns staying up 2 nights ago to get the secondary pump going when the water got too high in the basement, and then shutting it off so it wouldn't burn out. Rinse and repeat. I stayed up until about 12:15 and then my husband got up around 1 and stayed with it until 2 or 3 in the morning. Not great on the first day he had to get up at 6 for his new, earlier shift at work.
I've tried to be more productive. My husband gets home later but is more tired due to the earlier wake up time, so I try to just get things done around the house. I'm doing a load of laundry every day, something I should have started doing years ago, so it doesn't pile up and make us do it all weekend. Now that my husband works Saturdays I'll have to think up more things to do with my son--thankfully it'll be warm soon so we can start doing things outside again.
Not that it gets all that bad here-my midwestern friends will laugh when I say I don't want to go outside if it's below 40, at best--but I really don't like the cold. My parents used to keep the house unbearably cold. If I have to wear more than one layer in the house, it's too cold. I'm not gonna "put on a sweater!" as my mom would suggest, or go soak my hands in a sink full of hot water. Seriously, I used to have to do that. And it wasn't that we were tight on money. My parents just believed in saving it even when they didn't really have to. So now I revel in the fact that I can turn the heat to what's comfortable to me, and wear just a long sleeved t shirt or a comfortable soft sweater and not be freezing. My husband wears short sleeves in the house all winter and I'm always just a touch cold so long sleeves work for me. The temperature is actually one thing we never argue about.
Oh yeah! So I'm going to the NKOTB album release show in Boston later this month. I'm still not sure exactly what it will be like, but I know it's not in a club setting so it won't be all dancey and stuff. I can't stand club dancing, mostly because I can't dance. I hope it'll just be them putting on a small show.
I bought 2 tickets, and I guess I'm going with my husband because my friend H from Philly sounded kind of tentative about it. She's coming in May to go to a show with me in CT, so I think she probably decided she couldn't come for this one as well. She takes care of her mother and hates her job and has a lot of other stress going on. Frankly I worry about her a bit. She had a mental breakdown almost 2 years ago now and I know she's prone to depression and I just worry. I just hope she can still come to the show in May.
The ground is still soaked from all the snow melting, and then the rain. Always a lovely combination. My husband and I had to take turns staying up 2 nights ago to get the secondary pump going when the water got too high in the basement, and then shutting it off so it wouldn't burn out. Rinse and repeat. I stayed up until about 12:15 and then my husband got up around 1 and stayed with it until 2 or 3 in the morning. Not great on the first day he had to get up at 6 for his new, earlier shift at work.
I've tried to be more productive. My husband gets home later but is more tired due to the earlier wake up time, so I try to just get things done around the house. I'm doing a load of laundry every day, something I should have started doing years ago, so it doesn't pile up and make us do it all weekend. Now that my husband works Saturdays I'll have to think up more things to do with my son--thankfully it'll be warm soon so we can start doing things outside again.
Not that it gets all that bad here-my midwestern friends will laugh when I say I don't want to go outside if it's below 40, at best--but I really don't like the cold. My parents used to keep the house unbearably cold. If I have to wear more than one layer in the house, it's too cold. I'm not gonna "put on a sweater!" as my mom would suggest, or go soak my hands in a sink full of hot water. Seriously, I used to have to do that. And it wasn't that we were tight on money. My parents just believed in saving it even when they didn't really have to. So now I revel in the fact that I can turn the heat to what's comfortable to me, and wear just a long sleeved t shirt or a comfortable soft sweater and not be freezing. My husband wears short sleeves in the house all winter and I'm always just a touch cold so long sleeves work for me. The temperature is actually one thing we never argue about.
Oh yeah! So I'm going to the NKOTB album release show in Boston later this month. I'm still not sure exactly what it will be like, but I know it's not in a club setting so it won't be all dancey and stuff. I can't stand club dancing, mostly because I can't dance. I hope it'll just be them putting on a small show.
I bought 2 tickets, and I guess I'm going with my husband because my friend H from Philly sounded kind of tentative about it. She's coming in May to go to a show with me in CT, so I think she probably decided she couldn't come for this one as well. She takes care of her mother and hates her job and has a lot of other stress going on. Frankly I worry about her a bit. She had a mental breakdown almost 2 years ago now and I know she's prone to depression and I just worry. I just hope she can still come to the show in May.
