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Coffee and cats cats cats cats! and much less kidney stone pain, finally. Plus the near certainty that tomorrow will finally be warmer.

An apple danish

testing out a new canoe (to us)

^^ sitting here in the live-in freezer that is the US East Coast, realizing that there are still places where people can put a canoe in (presumably) unfrozen water and paddle about awhile. Gives an old lady hope, that does.

English muffin for breakfast this morning.

VERY happy about a couple things.

Thing 1: checked weather forecast yesterday and it called for frozen ick oobleck blah

during a midday time period. I was supposed to be driving to/from doc in that time period. Frozen ick oobleck blah put me in the ER once, so I don't go out in it anymore.

Called doc's office yesterday, left message postponing and explaining. Today I called doc's office to set up new appt. They THANKED ME because they have other older patients so they confirmed the forecast, and are contacting these other patients to warn about weather, rearrange schedules! This doc's office is awesome. Here I was worried I'd look like a flibbertigibbet, and instead it ended up protecting other people's safety. I'm still kind of sitting here with my mouth hanging open, but SO grateful. There really ARE good people out there.

Thing 2: It has been sooooooo cold, and I know we have trouble with pipes and mains in my neighborhood, so I ran out this morning before the frozen ick oobleck blah, to get groceries and bottled water. Because I figured as soon as it warms up, we'll find water main breaks that had been protected by ice - they'll thaw and start leaking.

So I get home, and there's an email from our property managers... turns out there was a localized problem for one home, but MY HANDYMAN WOOT WOOT saved the day working with our maintenance engineer (also a woot woot great guy) and they didn't need to shut down the mains; this is a big hairy honkin' deal!

One of the nicest things about being an old phartess, as my Dad used to put it, is that I really appreciate stuff like this now. It's good luck, with people in it. Good people-luck. This made my day, maybe my whole week.

(Edit in: people sometimes criticise Aspies for overexplaining. Guess what? It's precisely because I overexplained to my doc's office, that they knew to check the forecast. Take that, critics of Aspies! )

I get to listen to nice music.

Happy Birthday to you
Happy Birthday to you
Happy Birthday Dear Elvis
Happy Birthday to you!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvis_Presley

I got a late xmas present from my brother, it was a pre-paid 50$ credit card that I can use in pretty much any store.

Raining

A magic muffin and a dose of uncommon sense.

my barn rescue kitty curled up on my stomach to sleep, early this morning. She's been sleeping alongside my feet, but hasn't done this before. I petted her and petted her and fuzzed her and fuzzed her and she purred until I thought she'd break her purr mechanism

^^^ I'm glad you don't have to deal with broken water mains.

They're a pain in the butt when it thaws then freezes again.

^^ Thank you and Amen to that. So far, so good. We're finally in the 40s now, where I am, so there may be surprises to come. But I'm grateful for all the hassles I and my neighbors have been spared, to this point.

You folks had it worse, with snow and all. Hope you're doing OK. (Even worse in Darmok's neck of the woods, with coastal flooding added.)