A crazy winter storm is racing across the country, dumping ice and freezing rain on the heads of people from Texas to Maine. Meanwhile, in the PNW (Pacific Northwest, for those of you not from around here) it is COLD. The high for the week was 33 degrees, and that was on Tuesday. Tonight, it is going down in the single digits. So, as I said in the title... Brrrrrrrrrrrrr.
Getting to water aerobics this morning was pretty entertaining. I left a couple of minutes early, since there was a light dusting of snow on the ground, but, foolish me.... I thought it would be a relatively normal day of driving. WRONG. It took me about 50 minutes to go the three miles from our house to the pool. I only left 20 minutes before class started, so we got there about 30 minutes after class started. Boo. Ah, well, 30 minutes of water aerobics is better than none, especially since I followed it up with 10 minutes of "aqua jogging".
Today, everyone did shallow aerobics since so few folks showed up. By the time I got there, they were working with the noodles, which are long, Styrofoam floatation devices. Most of the time was spent sitting on them or having them behind our back, but in one instance, she had us kneel on them in the water. Those of you who have spent more than 30 seconds with me know what a klutz I am. I was seriously falling off the noodle in the pool. THEN, she wanted us to go from kneeling on the noodle (funny to say and hear!) to sitting on the noodle, and back again... over and over. Yeah. That never happened for me. I was, of course, cracking myself up completely, and laughing uproariously, but these folks are used to that by now and they simply ignored me.
Buckley has become a permanent fixture in front of the fireplace. He won't even sit on my lap, because I'm not warm enough for him. I'm going through dog on the lap withdrawal. Brian and I had to stop by the animal shelter to update Buckley's rabies information (he got his shot last week) and I seriously thought about picking up a new puppy since my lap is empty. Shockingly, Brian said no thank you. He thought that Buckley might not like it. Go figure.
Yesterday we went over to the Columbia Sportswear Employee Store and bought bunches of stuff for 1/2 price. I'm kicking myself today for not buying the super insulated pink Sorel boots that I admired. When I decided not to buy them, my thought was, "how often will it be cold enough to need these?" Um, it was cold enough today and will be cold enough tomorrow, too. What was I thinking?
Good thoughts go out to my lovely friend, the lovely Margaret. She is going through some health problems that are a bit stressful, especially on top of the other chronic disease she deals with daily. Best wishes for a very speedy and safe recovery. BIG LOVE to you, Lovely Margaret.
One final bit of news. I found out yesterday that the Kaiser Manager position got reopened and I may be reconsidered. I'm talking to someone about it on Monday, so everyone keep your fingers crossed and think good getting-hired thoughts for me. Even if I'm not considered for the manager, I'm still in the running for the consultant position, but without a manager to hire me, I'm not sure how that will work.
Be happy and healthy!!!
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