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midnightsjaneThe most annoying noise in the universe, guaranteed to raise the hair on the back of my neck.........EEEEEK, EEEEEEK, as the windshield wipers scrape their way across the windshield of my car. All the way home tonight, over an hour of that horrible high pitched squeeeeek. It was raining (obviously) just hard enough that the intermittent speed wasn't enough, and by the time I got home and turned off the engine I was ready to rip the damned wipers off the car with my bare hands. Guess I need new blades or something. Longest drive home ever.
It's been another busy week here. I don't know where the time goes; all of a sudden it's February, and I hardly got used to January! Before we know it, it will be spring. I don't mind that, it will mean we're that much closer to starting the house. The barn should be completed by April, and the house will come down in May, and then the new house will be started. The timeline has us all settled in by November. I'm starting to look around my place and think about what I want to bring, and what to toss or donate. Biggest job will be going through all my books and deciding whether to keep them all or not. I may do a clear out of the ones I know I won't want to read again; the hospital auxiliary is always eager to get donations for the patient book cart, so I may just do that. I know it's a bit early to start packing but it's not too early to start planning. I don't have a lot of stuff, really. Every move I've made over the past 20 years has been to a smaller space, so I've gotten rid of a lot from move to move. This time I'm going to be moving into a bigger space, from what the architect says. Haven't seen the plans yet, so it's hard to visualize how my stuff will fit in to my new place. Lots of time yet.
I had to renew my nursing license this week; it's one of those things I have to do, no choice if I want to work, but it makes me seriously annoyed. The College of Nurses is the regulatory body, but other than a crappy newsletter and some occasional emails, I really don't see much that they do for me personally. Unlike the Union, which actually negotiates our contracts, the College seems to be an entity that's there just for its own sake. For that priviledge, I have to pay them almost $500 a year, grrrrr.
Came home and had the last piece of the lasagna that I made this week. It was really delicious. I was pleased to find that those oven ready noodles really do turn out - makes lasagna making a lot less fuss. Washed the dishes, watched an interesting documentary about Queen Elizabeth's mother-in-law, Princess Alice of Greece, who was a woman of some controversy. Her family actually had her locked away for a few years in a Swiss clinic for the mentally ill; she spent the war years in Athens where she hid a family of Greek Jews from the Nazis, eventually became a nun and started her own order, then came to London to live in Buckingham Palace in her final years, reuniting with her son, Prince Phillip. It was quite fascinating.
Watched Downton Abbey, too. I'm still quite hooked on it.
Time for bed. It's almost 11 p.m., and I'm trying to keep my New Year's resolution to go to bed earlier. I need my beauty sleep to keep up with my busy days!
It's been another busy week here. I don't know where the time goes; all of a sudden it's February, and I hardly got used to January! Before we know it, it will be spring. I don't mind that, it will mean we're that much closer to starting the house. The barn should be completed by April, and the house will come down in May, and then the new house will be started. The timeline has us all settled in by November. I'm starting to look around my place and think about what I want to bring, and what to toss or donate. Biggest job will be going through all my books and deciding whether to keep them all or not. I may do a clear out of the ones I know I won't want to read again; the hospital auxiliary is always eager to get donations for the patient book cart, so I may just do that. I know it's a bit early to start packing but it's not too early to start planning. I don't have a lot of stuff, really. Every move I've made over the past 20 years has been to a smaller space, so I've gotten rid of a lot from move to move. This time I'm going to be moving into a bigger space, from what the architect says. Haven't seen the plans yet, so it's hard to visualize how my stuff will fit in to my new place. Lots of time yet.
I had to renew my nursing license this week; it's one of those things I have to do, no choice if I want to work, but it makes me seriously annoyed. The College of Nurses is the regulatory body, but other than a crappy newsletter and some occasional emails, I really don't see much that they do for me personally. Unlike the Union, which actually negotiates our contracts, the College seems to be an entity that's there just for its own sake. For that priviledge, I have to pay them almost $500 a year, grrrrr.
Came home and had the last piece of the lasagna that I made this week. It was really delicious. I was pleased to find that those oven ready noodles really do turn out - makes lasagna making a lot less fuss. Washed the dishes, watched an interesting documentary about Queen Elizabeth's mother-in-law, Princess Alice of Greece, who was a woman of some controversy. Her family actually had her locked away for a few years in a Swiss clinic for the mentally ill; she spent the war years in Athens where she hid a family of Greek Jews from the Nazis, eventually became a nun and started her own order, then came to London to live in Buckingham Palace in her final years, reuniting with her son, Prince Phillip. It was quite fascinating.
Watched Downton Abbey, too. I'm still quite hooked on it.
Time for bed. It's almost 11 p.m., and I'm trying to keep my New Year's resolution to go to bed earlier. I need my beauty sleep to keep up with my busy days!
