Wednesday, January 11, 2017

Why has this week seemed so ridiculously long?

Oh, it's because I live in Minnesota.  I've had to go to Mayo 2 times so far this week (Monday and Wednesday), and there was snow during both commutes.  Most of you have all seen the stuff...you know...white and fluffy....occasionally makes roads slippery?????  Most often falls at THE WORST POSSIBLE TIMES????

My commute home Monday was 4 hours.

My commute to Mayo today was 4 hours.

All because of this fluffy, pretty, damn near impossible to drive in creation of nature.

I wish I could say it was pretty, but I just didn't give a hoot.

I AM SO TIRED OF BEING IN MY CAR.

8 hour round trips Monday and Wednesday, with another trip scheduled Friday.  No snow that day, but a HIGH temperature of 2.  Yes, just 2 tiny little insigificant degrees.

I haven't been outside (except to go to Mayo and the grocery store in 8 days.

I am hating Minnesota right now.  Or winter.  Can't quite decide.

The past 3 winters have been very unkind to me, which is maybe why I'm starting to dislike them so intensely.

There's a LOT going on right now, but none of it really good.  I'll post in a few more days whenever I can figure out a way to let go of my compulsive need to put all of this detail in and keep the posts to at least short-story lengths, because the last 5 weeks have been a novel's worth of stuff.

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