Day 5 of no heat.Â? (Well… at least no furnace.Â? The middle floor has baseboard heat and I have a space heater in my study.)

We’re out of milk until I get the courage up to brave the elements and go down to the co-op.

The furnace dude came to the middle floor entrance which means that I got a face full of snow this morning.

No LSAT scores yet.

0930: Wake-up, eat some yogurt, take my morning pills, dress.
1000: Leave for coffee.Â? Spend 3 minutes trying to get car out of driveway area and turned around.
1015: Arrive at coffee.Â? Make iced non-fat vanilla lattÃ? and settle in for some kitty love and crocheting.
1100: My turn for a massage.Â? Strip, hop on table between sheets, and have the yuckiness worked out of my neck and back.
1200: Am told to head out because another person was stuck in the parking area and if I needed help, I needed to go now.Â? Turn car on, drive over snow-covered highway, get mail, head toward parsonage.
1210: Find that car will not navigate through foot of snow into garage.Â? Curse at snow.Â? Grab shovel and shovel out a path.
1215: Finally get car into garage.Â? Hike to church to tell Jon and other pastors about snow.Â? Explain to Jon that he needs to cancel his afternoon and evening plans due to weather.Â? Eat steaming bowl of soup handed to me by WELCA lady.
1300: Leave church, walk to house while blinded by snow.
1308: Enter house, jump into hot shower to warm up.Â? Try to get breathing passages open that closed due to physical activity in cold air.

So the tire tracks are now full of snow 3 hours later.Â? It’s supposed to stop snowing tomorrow so I might have to shovel quite a bit so Jon can get to his continuing ed on Thursday.

Let’s see… what has happened in the last 7 days:

– the Volvo shorted out something that they are taking forever to figure out
– we had chinook winds twice
– we’ve gotten 7 inches of snow cumulatively
– I got diagnosed with a sinus infection (surprise, surprise)
– I got checked out after the accident about 2 weeks ago
– I went down to Great Falls
– I took the LSAT

And… yeah.Â? It seemed like a crazier week but mostly because I was trying to work things around going down to Great Falls.

For those who know about me getting rear-ended while turning onto the road through town, I’m OK and in one piece.Â? (I am utterly amazed at the number of drivers who haven’t heard of turn signals — I. WAS. USING. MINE. AND. THEY. IGNORED. IT. AND. TRIED. TO. PASS. ME.Â? I really have no pity for them because they also were really rude to me after they hit me.)Â? Give me a couple days to get over the sore muscles and I’ll be my normal ornery self.Â? :)Â? The stupidheads who hit me managed to do some pretty decent damage to their pick-up though.Â? (My car is still driveable though it needs some body work and the tail-light replaced.)

Well… we were driving home tonight and going about 10 mph under the speed limit because visibility was crappy and snow was blowing on the roads.Â? (In other words, not weather in which you should be doing upwards of 65 mph) and some idiot decided to tailgate us with their brights on.

OK… let’s talk about common sense.Â? If there’s crappy visibility due to fog or blowing snow, your brights aren’t going to help — in fact, they make it worse.Â? Secondly, if there’s blowing snow, the road conditions are worse than usual and this means that going the normal speed limit is not incredibly advisable.Â? Sorry… I’d rather get home later if it means I get home in one piece.

People!Â? Use your brains!!!!!

Events
Sunday: church 11-12, lunch 12-1, annual meeting 1-4
Monday: chill
Tuesday: coffee 9-12, quilts 12-3
Wednesday: appointment from 1-3
Thursday: meeting 12-1ish
Friday: funeral in Great Falls
Saturday: judge speech tourney in Browning all day
Sunday: church: 11-12, lunch 12-1, annual meeting 1-2:15 (it might not be over but that’s when I’m leaving), study 3-5

(Keep in mind that the events include the drive which can be anywhere from 7-120 miles each way depending on the place.)

Projects
Crocheting: Violet’s Pink ribbon socks, patchwork blankie for me and to enter in Marias Fair
Podcast: need to write for this week
Webwork: refining site for parishioner