Winter Still Blasting Through Our Lives

Today we are having another storm. The last remnants of a northeaster that has moved inland from the coast. I am not looking forward to shoveling, but once I am out in it, it is fun! Snow is going to help. (Snow is my daughter, the actual weather snow won't be helping much. ;) ) I took my full walk this morning forwards and backwards in spite of the weather conditions. Once I'm out there, I usually want to do it, but the starting, that can be hard.

In other news, today is pi day. I think I am going to make some diverse hand pies 'cause I really don't have a plan, and making a big whole pie sounds bothersome. Truthfully, making pie crust dough sounds bothersome, but I think once I start, it will be enjoyable, and I'll definitely like eating it. I don't have any meat thawed out currently, but I might just stuff it with jelly and maybe some sort of homemade fruit fillings, or boxed mac & cheese, and/or something with breakfast sausage.

I keep thinking about the fight I had with Diana. It has left its mark. It was just a stress argument, no big deal, but it has been so long since anything like that has happened, and when it did, I completely lost every ounce of sanity, and I was so scared. I doubted my whole very self. I doubted Diana. What is real? It is so hard to feel safe and connected, so much work, but definitely worth it!

Some of my plans for this week include an Adventure-on-Wednesday surprise along with a beautiful ritual to welcome spring, and some sort of lucky-Irish St. Patrick's Day dessert on the 17th. There are so many reasons why St. Pat's day is problematic, but it makes my partner happy to have special foods for days that her family traditionally observed, and in the end, that is important to me.

On the lunch plate: lots of leftovers - meatloaf, mashed potatoes with gravy, broccoli

On the dinner plate: Not sure! Maybe lots of handpies, maybe boxed mac & cheese with tuna, maybe even pizza. We'll see!

In the glass: Polar cranberry-lime seltzer

Reading: Love and Olives by Jenna Evans Welch, The Collected Poems by Sylvia Plath

To do: sweep kitchen, vacuum living room

Listening: Fall Out Boy, AJR, Panic! At The Disco