Finally, Finally, Finally got back to the pool this week!! I went after I got off work Wednesday morning, so didn't think I'd stay more than 30 minutes, but it felt so good to be back in the pool that I did my normal hour - and boy, did I ever pay for it when I tried to crawl out of bed in the early afternoon! I worked some of the aches out by shoveling snow - I went to bed with clear skies and woke up to about 3" of snow that fell sometime during the 4 hours I was sleeping. It was still snowing when I got in the van to head head to town - I'd promised youngest grandson I'd take him to the store, but when I made it to the second turn, I did a 3 point and headed back home; it was blowing like crazy!! It had settled down this morning, but then Hubby sent me a text telling me not to drive as the roads were icy - so the neighbor came over and picked me up for the trip to the pool - we were in 4WD most of the way - kinda hard to tell where on the road we actually were. I put in another hour in the pool, and that took a few more of the aches out - I barely hurt at all now. We hit the store on the way home as neighbor needed fruit - I snagged an ad and found that they had the Knorr's packaged sides on sale 5/$5, so picked up 10 of them for the pantry. We are planning to go back up to the pool tomorrow - with a stop by the VFW for fish dinners afterwards. I've really missed the companionship of the V; stopping in to grab carry-out just wasn't the same. I'm hoping that the roads are clear enough by Friday afternoon or Saturday morning that I can run over and take the grandson to get whatever it was he thought he needed. Probably Valentines...
Shoes - I hate buying shoes!! (Do I have to turn in my female card
) I wear a 5 in regular shoes, but work shoes have to be a 5.5 to allow for heavy socks (I wear wool socks all year round to work) and feet swelling during the 12.5 hour shifts. I will only wear white shoes to work - I want to be able to see if something gets on them. Used to wear Brooks and loved them, but then they changed where they were being made and the store didn't have my size in stock so ordered in - they came in with a weird yellowish cast and STUNK of chemicals. I tried a few other brands but none were comfortable until I happened on some Dr. Scholl's. $29 and they last about 3 months of floor nursing, which includes being washed at least every other week. Once they hit the 3 month mark, I use them for walking shoes until it's time to rotate the next pair in, at which point they become yard/garden shoes. Only problem is now I can't find them locally so I'm either going to have to order them or find a different shoe. Did I mention that I hate buying shoes?
I'd noticed a stray cat in the yard a time or two lately, usually he was out by the compost pile but today he was sitting under the old swing set frame where I have several bird feeders hanging so I decided he needed to find a different lunch. I dumped a packet of tuna in a disposable dish, took it outside and put it down about 20' away from the feeders - cat took off for the gully, but I kept peeking out the window and noticed he was back in the yard about 30 minutes later. He had his nose in the air and was looking around, finally found his way over to the tuna and chowed down. I'll give him a couple more packs of tuna that are getting close to the use by date until I can get to the store to grab some cat food - won't hurt my feelings a bit to have a cat around the place again since I really, really, really do not like rodents!
TP is showing back up in the stores around here in a big way - mostly off brands. I didn't deplete my stash much, but may add a few packages of the off brands to have on hand just in case. I'm watching for another coffee sale for daughter; down to 6 tubs of the half-caff that she likes, but the 'sale' of $7.99 wasn't enough of a sale for me to buy today; I may live to regret it... CVS has not been having some of the sale items in stock when I go in to shop - I have 3 CVS stores in my normal range - work town, pool town, grandkid town - and it's the same situation in all three. Dollar General has been getting a little skimpy too, but at least they still carry my Pond's face cream - 12 hours of mask is rough on the skin. At least we're back down to just surgical masks instead of N95's unless we have a covid+ patient; and psych is running full enough that the positives are going to the medical floors instead. Yeah, the med/surg nurses pretty much hate us right now... but we can't get people placed due to covid; the psych nursing homes are full up, psych group homes are limiting intake as they can only have one person per bedroom, and the state hospital in our district is requiring a 14 day quarantine period WHEN they have a bed - they are having trouble finding post hospital placement as well.
Daughter is back to full time work - the little boys are having a little trouble adjusting to keeping the noise level down after 6+ months of having no limits on noise. I bet daughter AND the boys will all be happy when warm weather comes back
Oldest grandson - the lineman apprentice - hasn't been getting much rest the past few days; he's been out on calls frequently. If you've a prayer to spare for our folks who keep the power on, I'd appreciate it being offered up.
Well, it's a bit early, but with the increase in exercise I'm getting tired earlier; think I'll go ahead and post this so I can do a quick check of the forum then head to bed. You folks all take care out there; stay safe!!