Early Spring

Everytime the 'groundhog' tells us we are going to have an early spring, we don't.  For the first time this winter I am going to need to use my snow blower.

I am buried in work and have been for the last few weeks.  I had done really well this school year, up until a few weeks ago, to not work on the weekends.  But I have had to give up my weekends and will this weekend too. 

Thursday I will be heading down to Cincinnati to help my son...and the DIL...to pack up and be ready to load up on Saturday morning.  I hired 2 guys to help load the truck.  Like I can really afford that...but it will be worth it.  I am too old and over weight to do that kind of thing anymore.  If they lived in a 1st floor apartment it would be different.  But I am NOT moving furniture and a washer/dryer down a flight of stairs and then...it is SUCH a long walk from the building to the truck because it sits back away from the parking lot.

I am most concerned with the fact that the weather predictions keep changing.  As of today the weather prediction is that on Thursday it will be a wintry mix coming down all over the state.  And on Sunday too.  That would mean I would be driving in that going and coming.  I hope that changes.
Last weekend the weather prediction was MAYBE some rain on that Thursday, Saturday would be about 50 and Sunday was to be clear, too.  It, however, has changed drastically since then.  So, we shall keep watching and plan accordingly.  I may be going down on Wednesday night. 

I had to endure a lecture from my older sister as to 'what I am doing wrong'.  I have had to hear that all my life from my family...what's wrong with my wardrobe, my hair, my way of thinking, etc.  What is wrong with my decision making....

She said, "I'm going to tell you what you're doing wrong."  I said, 'Oh please, tell me what all I am wrong about."  She either doesn't recognize sarcasm or she just didn't care cuz she retorted with, "I'm going to!"  and she did.  According to her.

Well, it is what it is.  I don't think my kids are that terrible. They need to do some growing up yet in some ways but I do not know everything there is to know.  And I am not going to presume what is best for their lives. They have to make their own decisions and figure out what works for them.  I have gotten to the point that I say, "From my POV, I would think this would work......BUT, it is not my life, I am not living it and you are intelligent enough to figure it out.  I can give suggestions but it does not mean I am right."  And I approach my friends that way too. 

My friend Susan admits that she worries about other people's lives and wants to fix their lives for them all that time.  I told her that she can only do  so much and she has to acknowledge that they can work on their own lives and take care of them. It is nice she wants to 'fix' their problems but they are not her problems.

I will have cats to put up with.  I told my son that they are cute and I like them but I just don't want them as a pet for me.