The big east coast blizzard missed Maine…amazing and super duper great in my book! I don’t care for snow…no I HATE snow is more like it. Once the dastardly shit is on the ground you must move it….THAT is what I hate about it – the shoveling and moving of the masses of snow. It’s beautiful to look at and makes the landscape extremely pretty, but the fact that it gets in the way of moving about and must be shoveled away from driveways, paths and roads must be plowed just sucks. The only time I like snow is when I have the opportunity to go snowmobiling – which is fairly rare these days. My cousins up in the woods of Maine all have snowmobiles – it’s basically standard issue Maine gear to have one, you need them up there. Occasionally I will make a winter trek up to the Rangely area to visit with family there and to partake in the craziness of snowmobiling. It may be a cold weather sport, but it sure is some fun!
I got a great shot of Lulu making her “nasty” face. She makes this toothy smirk whenever she encounters something she doesn’t like the smell or taste of. I was luckily in the right spot yesterday with the camera on her when she got a wiff of some smoke that she didn’t care for…thus the “nasty” face ensued. I think it’s hilarious and just had to share that with you dear readers.
The job is going well. I’m getting used to the schedule of getting up at 5am to spend a couple of hours here preparing for my day, feeding the dogs and making sure they are all set for the morning while I am gone, and drinking my coffee. I must have coffee in the morning or my day just doesn’t start out right. And it’s some damned strong coffee to boot! I usually leave here around a quarter to 7 and am at work in less than 10 minutes. I like the schedule that I’ve got, working weekdays from 7am to 1pm and having my afternoons and weekends off…couldn’t ask for better hours or days! I guess I just got lucky with the timing of getting hired for the position. I enjoy the people, the atmosphere and still have plenty of daylight when I get out to do all of my other business and take care of things around here. So, it’s going well all in all, and I hope it stays this way.
I’ve been feeling pretty good. I’ve got a check up with my hiv specialist in February and have to go get blood work done this week in preparation for that appointment. I have been doing pretty well though, even the depression isn’t as bad as it used to be, I think I have that under control much better lately. I do think that working is helping that because it gives me a purpose every day and I’m not allowing myself to get bored. I have gone through some med changes recently and that may play into feeling better too. Either way, my moods are great lately and I feel pretty strong and healthy.
I cannot believe that the end of January is this weekend. It seems like this month has flown by! Pretty soon it will be spring and I’ll be out working in my gardens making the flowers grow once again! Yay! I really look forward to this Spring in particular because it’ll be the first one here in my new home. The former owner was a gardener too and she’s got a lot of perennial flowers planted already that will all come back up every year. I am going to wait and see what comes up before I go digging around and put any new stuff in there. I’ll be sure to post some pictures of the outside of the place once I have some good ones. Right now everything is pretty dreary, snow on the ground and no color.
Time for bed. I find that I need to make myself go to bed at a reasonable hour now that I am working. No time for those late nights of staying up on the computer working on writing or whatever now. I need that 8 hours of sleep. Hope you all are doing well.
Do you like winter? Snow? What do you do to keep busy in the slower months of winter?
Peace! ~MB
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