Whew

So much snow in the driveway that I got the car stuck right at the street. Spent 40 minutes digging and rocking the car. Now it's sitting in the street, waiting for the plow guy to come for the driveway. I'm very tired. It's not safe to drive today, not going to be going anywhere.

Call it a victory

Feb 14th is bad where I live for house emergencies. A few years ago we had a huge snowstorm which triggered a depression episode for me. There was a couple feet of snow in our driveway and it needed to be shoveled to get out. Couldn't drag myself out of bed.

Today I woke up to a call from our tenants. Melting ice ripped a gutter off the entire side of the house, downing a bunch of lines running to the house. Called police and they and the fire department came out and said it was phone/cable lines. I got the driveway cleared, let our tenants know, and went to get some donuts (morning was already off to a bad start so why not). Only to find the donut store didn't have any donuts... at all. Something had broken or something. So went over to Panera and got muffins instead. Called the phone company and they will be out today to take care of the downed lines.

Still here

Friday
Had a three hour interview a few days ago, so much fun :-) I spoke with 5 different people one on one. Basically I gave 90% the same interview 5 times. Being shuffled from person to person gave me a bit to collect myself in between. Felt fine enough to go grab some vietnamese from a restaurant near our old house for lunch. Was mentally tired for most of the rest of the day.

With another interview the previous week, maybe I will be employed again soon. Tired today, but hanging in there despite not being productive. Feel like I could use a nap. Acupuncture later today.

Saturday
Went and did the Farmers market, making this now a weekly trip as I've been the past 4 weeks in a row. Better weather, less people, how does that work? Anyway the merchants I've been buying from seem to recognize me. And the anxiety level of going is down/gone.

Sunday
Spent 20-25 minutes at ping pong and worked up a sweat against a very enthusiastic opponent. He must be one of the Wednesday people as I haven't seen him before. Need to keep up the activity level.

Monday
Woke up to a call from the tenants, icefall had taken out the gutter and lines running to the house from a utility pole. Called police in case it was power lines even though we had power. Police and fire identified them as phone/cable lines. So I cleared the mess from the driveway, getting good excercise in before 8am. Figured I deserved a donut for that. Went to the donut place and they didn't have anything at all, broken oven or no delivery to them or something, went to Panera for a muffin instead. Well deserved after the morning's work. Then called the phone/cable companies to get them to come out and reattach their lines to the house.

I tried to view this as a test of my progress since it was Valentines day several years ago that I had couldn't get out of bed depression because a huge snowstorm had left several feet of snow in our driveway. Anyway once this was all done (at least what I could do, no reconnecting cables to utility poles) I felt like I'd passed a test.

Up early

Drip drip drip coming from inside the house woke me up at 6. Water inside the windowpane of one window. I went up to the attic and can see the spot where it's getting in, but it's tucked into a spot that's out of reach. Also I see the water getting in, but don't see an actual hole or anything.

For now it's just a pot to catch it as there doesn't seem to be much I can do to address the leak itself. It's in the roof, or where the roof and the gutter meet. Can't look at it from the outside since it's the second floor level and there's that pesky ice storm.