23 days and counting...

Booooo..... DBF left again today. For 23 days. Did I mention boooooooo? At least he gets to go to Florida and gets a few days of leave. Something new and hopefully fun for him.

While I stay here in the cold and snow....grrrr....booooooo some more.

Of course, yesterday it snowed...and snowed some more... so we had to dig ourselves out of the driveway this morning. Good way to get the heart pumping at 7am!

Our road had been plowed a few times overnight so we figured that it would be smooth driving down to the dockyard. My car does handle just fine in the packed snow and slush...it's front wheel drive with good tires, but I'm still pretty uncomfortable out there. The main roads weren't near as clear as we had expected and although everyone was going at a reasonable pace and mostly keeping their distance I still felt like I shouldn't be out there.

I was fine until we got to the big hill that leads down to the dockyard. It was super slushy and gross and I ended up making DBF drive those last few blocks. It was fine and I will get used to this eventually but that was too much for me to deal with that early in the morning.

Because of the stupid-doody weather we were running behind so our farewell was just a quick hug and kiss on the side of the road. Booooooo. How romantic!

My biggest worry was getting out of the dockyard. All roads leading out go uphill. All with stoplights at the top. I had visions of getting part way up and having to stop for the light....then sitting there spinning my wheels and not moving when it was time to go. Luckily the light stayed in my favor and I just drove right on through. The roads were still pretty shitty most of the way, but thankfully it wasn't busy and I just drove at my own pace (which was still basically the speed limit anyway) and didn't have any trouble.

I'm actually better at it than I give myself credit for. I just need to learn to relax and trust the car.

Have a good trip honey!! Hurry home!

Stuff

While out running a few errands, these are things I noticed:

- there are A LOT of NASTY potholes out there
- I need a cuter toque
- Starbucks always serves their bevvies with the lids on here
- the bank machine was on the outside of the bank (which I find odd because it's a helluva lot colder here)
- customer service types are super-duper friendly here