not again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I cannot frickin' believe this! I HATE HATE HATE this weather! Oh yeah, it is lovely outside, just a few degrees below zero, a few lovely flakes of snow falling quietly outside. The wind seems down, after blowing all night. and here I sit again--the highway a sheet of ice, according to the hotline. Bruce is sick today, otherwise I would have just got up and obediantly gotten in the car and we would have somehow made it because he is great that way. Now I have to decide what to do (eg. just before getting dressed, I checked the computer again to see if it had gotten better and it had gotten worse....)The storm missed us yesterday, I was so glad, there was only the wind, followed by a covering of snow on the car when the wind went down. I was not anticipating this. The chunk of highway that is just south of the city, is always worse, that one is labelled travel not recommended, but I was thinking, it is only ten miles, surely I can manage that. But now that the most recent update is that the rest of the highway is ice covered, makes me wimp out again. I thought icy patches was bad enough. Now is a sheet of ice again and I have to sit here and wait and see if it gets better....really I am sitting and waiting to for the time when I can call work and someone will be there to answer the phone.....AAARRRRGGGGHHHHH! (I had such a nice hot bubble bath that was waiting for me too, this a.m. but I had to get out fast and get ready for work; I let it all go down the drain, sigh!) My back has been hurting for a week, some days worse than others. Before that it was my neck and shoulder...my shoulder for about a month or so for whatever reason. I am thinking maybe I did something to it in a vigorous aquacize class. My foot problem comes and goes, funny how the back thing makes me not notice the foot thing.....I think the back thing is from too much sitting and sitting improperly at work here. The chair is too big for me, and although I put a pillow behind my back, I tend to perch and then the desk area is set up for reaching and stretching. My chair swivels but has developed this horrid shreiking squeal when it swivels, this past couple weeks, so I wonder if I am somehow making my back swivel and not the chair, so as to avoid the earsplitting shreik. I have WD-40'd everything I can see under there, but I am starting to think the noisy part is sealed in a rubber thing. GAck, such small miseries in the grand scheme of things but I am wallowing in the discomfort of my life today.

I should have left for work ten min ago....I can still make it in time for my program if I leave before 9.....I will wait half an hour and then check the hotline again, but I don't anticipate any good change. Then I will call work, where I have a newish, temporary boss, who is very kind and understanding (as opposed to being screamed at, I know she will be kind on the phone, but I feel so guilty) I have already missed more work this year than any other. I am just so scared of ice.

Last week it was so nice, dry highways, and the streets were wet but it was too warm to be icy. Our mountains of snow disappeared like magic over the course of the last few days...I drove all over with nary a care. Silly me to start relaxing. I knew winter isn't over yet. I actually wish it was blizzarding, then I would feel like I had a legitimate excuse.

The other thing is that my co-worker and I have hardly seen each other this month, imbetween me missing days due to bad roads and her son being sick and then she was sick. We managed to see each other on tuesday for a couple hours to discuss some stuff and now here we go again. I am so falling behind in my work. I hate this time of year. Why can't we just go to spring?

Okay this is a big enough rant. Not sure what I can feel thankful for today, other than the safe warm home and the computer to keep me company. I may have to play some computer scrabble to take out my frustration.
May life improve tommorrow.
D.