I will admit to not caring much for grits
Maybe I just haven't had them cooked right?
Judy, get outside and get some fresh air and see if that helps your headache - you may not be getting enough oxygen exchange with the house buttoned up. If you can find a sheltered spot with some sunshine, all the better!
I've spent the last three days staying at my work buddy's house in work town so I could get to work for my shifts - last one was almost 14 hours due to a mandated education meeting. I took buddy out to breakfast after he picked me up Friday morning as a thank you. I didn't even have to wait until Hubby got off work to go home; buddy was kind enough to offer to bring me home - after taking me grocery shopping even! (He's a guy with a 4WD - I really think he just wanted to get out on the country roads so he could play lol!) He took me to Aldi so I could stock up on 1/2 &1/2 and lemonade, plus a few treats. I found some yummy looking frozen veggie options - potatoes and green beans with rosemary, and potatoes, snap peas, red peppers with garlic herbs - I plan to fix one of them along with grilled Italian seasoned chicken breast and peach dumplings for supper tonight. And a pan of cornbread since someone just had to go and mention it and it sounded good
If things get worse financially - which I fully expect them to with Democrats in office - we shouldn't go too hungry, at least for meat. I went out to fill the birdfeeders and there were deer tracks everywhere in the snow in my yard. Most were coming in from the south, but they were coming in from all 4 directions. Lots of rabbit and squirrel tracks - even a few raccoon tracks.
Daughter just called to see if I wanted the grandsons this weekend; told her sure - IF she borrowed oldest grandson's 4WD truck and brought 'em out since Hubby took ours to work today and won't be home until evening. The roads are plowed about 1.5 truck width wide and have a lot of frozen ruts (temps still in the teens) so I'm not risking my boys on them in the van. Sadly, the battery died in grandson's truck the morning the snow began; he has been out on calls and hasn't had time to replace it; and the places that will come to your house to do it have been swamped with emergency calls. He's hoping to go off call this weekend and get it taken care of - but I don't see that happening with the current temps and the wind blowing the way it is.
We changed insurance at work this year - and all of my co-workers are complaining about it, so I'm going to try to get on to the site while I'm off on vacation this week and see if I need to change anything. Also need to get on our new wellness site (you get a break on insurance if you jump through some wellness hoops) and figure out what I need to do for that. I'm also going to try to get some mandated education taken care of while I'm off work.
I'm not going to spend my whole vacation dealing with dreary work things though - the pool opened back up so I plan to be up there every day during the week, and I am going to get the last of my seed & plant orders in. Somehow, my seed starting shelf migrated to the machine shed and is holding motorcycle stuff, so a trip to the Evil Empire is on my list for a replacement one. I also need to figure out where I hid my flip-chart sized graph paper from youngest grandson so that I can get the gardens plotted out - gotta make sure to keep the raspberries far enough away from the clothesline...
Well, I've taken three phone calls and made a trip outside to fill the birdfeeders (a woodpecker was trying to drill a hole in my porch siding) since I started this, so I reckon I should just get it posted and get to work on some housekeeping chores. You folks all take care; stay safe out there!