Because seriously.
… They finally showed up about dinnertime on Sunday to plow our driveway. After it was half melted. Whatever.
… It’s snowing. Or it was last I looked out the window. Big, flurrying snowflakes. But it’s too warm for it to accumulate, so at least there’s that.
… The giant, messy, two-plus-year road construction project outside our front door has picked up again for the season and they’re going to start tearing out the access road to our development next week. They have to keep access open at all times, but I have no idea how they’re going to reroute things as they move the road. We’re in a little valley with woods, a river, a highway, and an apartment complex all around us, so there’s only one place for the exit and I really wish MNDOT would give us actual information instead of getting barely usable emails from the HOA management company.
… The main road outside our development has been a pothole-laden shitshow pretty much as long as we’ve lived here, but they’ve avoided fixing it properly because they’ve been planning this road construction project almost as long. It currently looks like someone blew it up from underground and you can’t go much more than 5mph through it lest you destroy the suspension on your vehicle. They’ve filled it in (with sand) at least twice and it just keeps erupting. But they’re going to be closing it off soon to finish the new bridge they’re building (and adding a double roundabout and creating an entirely new intersection that doesn’t currently exist and…) so hopefully by the time they reopen things, they will have finally repaved it properly. One can only hope. (There are going to be so damn many new roundabouts when they’re done with this mess.Woof.)
… My house smells like garlic. I used a lot of garlic in tonight’s dinner and now my house is going to smell like garlic for at least three days. Want To Buy: air purifier that neutralizes food stink as it happens.
… I did a mountain of laundry AND put it all away and feel this is worth noting because I haven’t actually put laundry away in over three years. Will this keep up next time I need to do laundry? Maybe. Maybe not. But at least it got done this time. And our closet looks weird with actual clothes hanging up instead of a bunch of empty, dust-covered hangers. This has also caused a fixation to develop over installing proper closet organization instead of the half-assed wire shelf situation that came with the house. But there is A LOT that needs to be done elsewhere in the house before we could even consider that bit of renovation and that’s a whole other situation we’re just not going to write about right now.
… Basil has been suspiciously quiet lately. Maybe he got tired of what-if-ing in my ear without me creating any new folders or Word documents to fill them with. Writing has been lousy lately. I am perturbed.
So is Rosie.
… THIS SONG.
(Close in the Distance from Final Fantasy XIV)
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