I don't have much to say today. The weather has been bad all day, and we only went out to go to Mass and recycle the plastic, and we took a walk around five but it was very windy. It has been raining or snowing almost all day, and everything tonight and tomorrow morning has been canceled. I am assuming I will be allowed to work from home tomorrow; Travalon already knows he has the day off because his workplace is closed. I meant to clean and do useful stuff around the house, the stuff I always say I have no time for, but instead I did Wordle and New York Times crossword puzzles. I suck.
I remember years ago, living in my single gal condo, when there was a snowstorm on a Sunday morning and I sat on the couch, listening to the early music show our community radio station plays every Sunday morning. The bishop actually said on the radio that we were all excused from Mass, so I sat back to relax and enjoy the music... and then there was a knock at my door. A friend decided to "help" me by showing up in a four-wheel drive vehicle to get me to Mass, even though the bishop said I didn't have to go. This is even more annoying because this friend routinely refuses to help me when I genuinely need help. So I had to go, but I have never gotten over the fact that I was allowed to skip Mass that day and had to go anyway. It's just like when I worked at the hospital, and the university was closed so nobody had to work... except me, because I was considered an essential worker. Now that I am not considered an essential worker, we never get days off at the university. I always miss out on the chance to slack off. Sigh...
One kind of cool thing is that I found the Belleek castle tower on eBay, just like the one in the gift basket I didn't win at the raffle yesterday. Due to giving blood, I had two gift cards I could choose from a variety of places, one for $20 and one for $10, so I got them from eBay and then got the castle tower for about half price. It's kind of shocking that someone gave one away when they're going for so much online... It should come within the next week, so I'm very excited about that. I needed to use the gift certificates anyway, or they were going to expire. I've sort of given up acquiring things for Lent, but on Sundays I can buy stuff because for whatever reason they don't count as part of Lent.
Here is something to cheer us all up as winter refuses to release its icy grip on us: my aunt in Colorado had these hyacinths blooming in her yard, and it got bad there too, so she dug them up and brought them in. Aren't they beautiful?
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