I don't get cabin fever...what I get is stir crazy from lack of work...this is why I don't take more than a couple of days off. Not updating and doing my normal daily stuff is driving me nuts!! I am still arting...daily and I am super excited to be updating next week. Really excited...I mean REALLY excited. Me being off schedule, and it's more than just my work, but my hubby's schedule is wonky-doodle too, makes me crazy...in the I will smother you will a dirty sock kind of crazy, not the normal fun kind of crazy I usually am. I'm managing...dealing, coping even. At first it was "Ahhhhhhh" now, I'm chomping at the bit. Driving everyone around me crazy. I am still holding true to not updating, with my exception to the blog, until the 8th...I'll have a ton to do before then...and I am going to try and break the updates up a bit so I don't give anyone eye strain.
So how have I been filling my extra time?! Well...I have been arting, as I said, also a lot of Don't Starve...a lot. I have died in several odd ways, and just today broke my 49th day record of surviving yay!! I am almost through what I call "Mosquito" season (officially it's Monsoon) and I have only been poisoned 6 times...this time I had the cure...unlike day 49 and I died because of mosquito...grrrr...I've been braving the waves and having a ton of fun. My shortest game 3 days....stupid stupid spiders and bees. Grrrr. Other than that, just reading Bulfinch's Mythology, trying to keep occupied. Mindless web surfing...((sigh))
So you are probably wondering where the "drive" in my title comes into play...well wait no further!! Here it is! We had some dicey weather this week. Sadly, we had to go out even though we had an advisory. We left...and it was gloomy and droopy...but dry. I thought, we may just dodge all of it and be fine. Yeah, I was wrong. Oh and when the hell did the 29th of December become a holiday?! Our bank was closed...GRRR...this was before the icy freezing stinging rain started...but it was windy and cold. We weren't alone in thinking the bank should be closed. Met a wonderful lady, we talked a bit, another glimmering hope of humanity...and went on our way.
On our way to Costco is when the fun began. First it was kind of a snowy/rainy mix. I was okay...we take the back roads to avoid the insanity that was the traffic. For the record all your all wheel drive/4X4 driving people...YOUR SUV/CAR/TRUCK DOES NOT MAKE YOU IMMUNE TO SLIDING!!! Slow down!! I had someone riding my arse to a point I thought they were going to join us in the backseat of our car. I tried just focusing ahead. The roads weren't overly bad, but there are a few "danger" zones on our route. Even in dry conditions it's dangerous. Costco was really dead...slowest I've ever seen it. I was in shock. Coming out...the weather was ewww...and OUCH. Ice pellets hitting your cheek not fun. Hit my legs a few times too...again ouch!! The roads weren't as great after our trip to the RCSS. That's when I was thinking, why the hell did we even try to drive in this?! I was behind the wheel. By the time we got home my back was gigantic knots of stress. UGH!! It got a LOT worse after we got inside and unloaded our goodies. All you could hear on the windows were the "tick tick tick" sound of the ice pellets hitting our window. Next day...well above freezing.
My adventures out for sure made me a bit crabby. The stress of the holiday season, didn't help much. Glad it's almost over. I don't like the change thing...even the good kind. I like my routine. I was really enjoying my time off, and now I'm just done. I am holding off on the updating, because I said I would and sometimes I do still enjoy moments of time off. I think it is good to mix it up and get out of your comfort zone. I'm looking forward to having my hubby home and actually enjoying his day off. I'm looking forward to getting back into work and showing off what I'm doing...I really had no clue where it came from, or how I came to do it, but it's quite different from the usual. I love it!!
Well my minions, it is time for me to start supper. I am hoping to pull off what the hubby did last night. He actually made the chicken taste like it was right off of a BBQ grill in a frying pan. The man is a sorcerer, that is all I can think of. It was amazing! I am not the most amazing cook...I do desserts much better, but I am going to try and emulate his work, and add my own twist to it. A light meal because it's an early morning...ugh! The coffee will be strong tomorrow, YAY! I am already excited for my morning coffee...yes, I have a problem, no I don't need a solution...if drinking coffee is wrong, I don't want to be right.
So does anyone have any New Year's resolutions? I don't. I think it's way too much pressure for just another day. Yes, I'm cynical, jaded, a killjoy. I just think the day is so hyped as well as the resolutions it sets you up to fail. That's my thought...do you have any thoughts on that, or my other insanity dribble of verbal vomit? Comment below! For now, I bid you an adieu and a safe and happy new year!!!