Today is Saturday, and in exactly two weeks I'll be heading out of here and on my way to Ottawa, a four-day journey which will include a two-day layover in Amherst with Tonia at her parents' house. We're going to spend Christmas there and then drive to Ottawa. We'll have to get a hotel for one night half-way there.
I'm really hoping the weather cooperates, or it might delay us! This past week has been a really BAD example of what Nova Scotia weather can be like. I had to work in New Minas four days out of five this week. And on three of those four days, we had to drive home through snowstorms. Egads, it was nasty. Luckily we made it home without incident all three times, but I was nervous all the way, that's for sure. It's hard being a passenger, with no control whatsoever. Not that I would have wanted to drive. That would've been even worse!
Today the sky is slightly overcast, but it looks pretty good out there. Lots of snow on the ground, and I'll have to scrape my car when it's time to leave.
I accepted an invitation to attend ex-boos's Christmas party, so I have to drive back to New Minas yet again this evening. And I will be the driver this time. I don't think we're going to encounter any snow. It might rain though. At least that'll help get rid of what's already on the ground. We don't plan to stay too long, so I should be home before 10pm.
I'm kinda regretting saying I'd go. I'd assumed the party would be in the afternoon for some silly reason. But of course it's in the evening, meaning we have to drive there and back in the dark. It's an hour away. I hardly know the people who'll be there. Plus I'll have to cobble together some kind of outfit that's suitable. I might even nip over to Pennington's this afternoon and see if there's anything decent there. Not really keen on buying new stuff at this point...I'll just have to pack it.
I'm sounding very negative this morning, aren't I! I'm not really in a bad mood or anything. Kinda neutral, really. Overall, I'm excited and happy to be going home. But you already know that. It's all I talk about anymore.
I have to go to Yarmouth on Wednesday. A three-hour drive. Hopefully we can come back that same day. I'm going down with one of the gals from the New Minas office. She's created a really beautiful new design for their products, and I've helped get it ready for the staff to use. The two of us are going down to train the staff on their new tools.
I'm a little disappointed that I didn't get to do that design myself, but I'll get over it. At least I've had some input, and a great deal of my own design that I did for the other products was used as the starting point for this new design, so I'm content. My creative fingerprint is still very much present.
I'm a little envious though. This gal did a really nice job. The design is beautiful. I'm wishing I'd done it myself. But I know myself well enough to know I wouldn't have come up with that design, and it's a good design, so I'm putting my energy into supporting it and doing a little coaching with the gal who created it.
Today I have to get my pint-sized apartment cleaned up. My landlady has placed a for rent ad in the paper today, so as early as tomorrow there may be people coming through to look at it. It's a fright at the moment. I desperately need to do laundry. I can't really start packing in any big way, which would help get the clutter down, because there's nowhere to put any boxes! I'll have to leave most of the packing to the last couple of days and put up with having to creep around here in two-foot lanes between the boxes. As if it isn't bad enough already, having to negotiate a circuitous between counters and bureaus and armoirs etc. to get from the living room to the bathroom. I'm SO looking forward to having more space!!!!
So, I'm still trying to come up with a new, permanent name for my blog. Any suggestions? I'm thinking of using the word "id" in some way. Idspiration? I dunno...people would probably think I couldn't spell. "From Here To Idternity?" I'll think of something.
Guess I should start doing something around here.
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