Thursday 11 December

It rained pretty much all day yesterday, and now it is colder, and icy, and snow is on the way. I am hoping choir will be cancelled. I am dangerously tired. I did not sleep well at all. I think the raw onions, scallions, and garlic in the salsa at Amigo's last night stoked a fire in my belly and sent the vapors to my brain and I did not rest well. Not at all. I hate that.

But dinner was fun, and my meal was good. I had a special chimichanga with spinach, cheese, portobellos and green sauce. I also had one of those organic oatmeal stouts brewed over in VT.

It did Fergus no good at all getting wet yesterday. He is extra itchy today and I must make a point of giving him a vinegar wash today -- this morning. Bella needs one too. I didn't even walk them last night. After I got home from work it was pretty much feed them all, get spruced up a bit, and back out the door to be there by 6. Thankfully J gave me a ride home. Leigh ended up not coming -- she was quite sick. She had come to work and I could clearly see she was quite sick. She says her mother made her go back to school. Who knows what is up with that family.

I called M from work just to make sure she's okay, after hearing her little girl self call out to me early in the morning. She's fine. Very busy.

I finally got back online when I got home from dinner. By then I was nearly out of my mind with fatigue but needed to leave a few messages with various people.

More Christmas cards are trickling in. PB made her own, and they are really nice. Quite cute, and funny, like she can so often be herself.

Work ticks along. We are keeping up with orders okay, and managing to keep up with the candle production list J gives me every day. Tho honestly, yesterday I walked in, feet wet from the rain -- and they stayed damp and chilly all day, very uncomfortable -- and thought how sick I was of making candles. About 10 minutes after arriving, I remembered I had left a hard boiled egg cooking on the stove and was very unhappy with the thought of walking home in the rain. But L arrived at just that moment and said he'd drive me up. So that was great. I ran in and all the water had boiled away and thankfully the egg hadn't exploded or burned yet.

It was a sloppy muddy mess yesterday because it warmed up so much with the rain. It was warmer outside than inside at work and when I arrived, the windows were all steamed up. And now today everything is fast frozen again and a snowstorm is on its way.

Fergus has begun to take no shit from cats and growls and snarls at them and I am glad he is.