Here we are at Week 52 and I'm glad to see the end of 2015. While there were no major calamities, the garage tear-down and rebuild took more time, money, and emotional energy than anticipated. And it isn't finished as we're still waiting on the builder to install the garage door opener. I called and left a reminder on his voicemail yesterday and hinted rather strongly that I'd like to get this wrapped up by the end of the year or, if that isn't possible, by the middle of January. If that fails I'm going to Angie's List to look for someone who can do the job. Due to the way our garage was framed I'm not confident in our ability to do it ourselves (even though
Our aging cars were another source of frustration and financial woe. For a while we were making weekly trips to the auto repair and/or transmission shop. No sooner would we bring home one car than the other one would break. I'm knocking wood that the cars behave in 2016 as I doubt we'll be in a financial position to replace them until 2018.
Another major source of stress was dealing with my back/dropped foot and worrying about upcoming changes to our health insurance. I still don't know what is going to happen with either one although I'm certainly trying harder to lose weight and become more active.
Anyway, about Week 52. On Christmas Day
Saturday we slept in, played Ingress, and went shopping for the ingredients to make chili. Sunday was more of the same plus laundry and actually making the chili. (Not that I can take credit for the cooking -- that's
Monday was back to work, lots of rain, a bit of Ingress, then home to knit and finish watching the episode's of the Homicide Hunter I'd recorded during A Very Kenda Christmas.
Tuesday the plan was to get my allergy shots then go to work only the thermostat on the furnace refused to turn on so before leaving for work I had to call the Heating & Cooling guys (Robin Aire, who have always been wonderful to us). They made us their first or second call of the day and promised to be there within the next two hours. So I took myself off for my shot, the worst part of which was gingerly making my way down our icy driveway while worrying about slipping and falling. The main roads weren't bad (Sunday's rain had turned to sleet come Monday and had frozen overnight) but I fishtailed a bit while turning onto our street on the trip home. The furnace repair guy was working on our system when I returned home and had it up and running not twenty minutes later. He replaced the (still under warranty) thermostat so all we were out was the cost of a service call.
Then it was off to work for a day wrangling computers and trying to clear off my desk. Didn't manage to clear it yesterday and today isn't looking promising. After work
I think that's all I have to say about this week but as usual, if you have questions, ask away.
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