Seven days later......

ANOTHER storm! Oy! This time, it started out as sleet and freezing rain....got about 3 inches of that last evening into the night. This morning it turned to snow......we'll see how much more we get before it stops! It was a bit hairy driving downtown for Sunday breakfast at the local restaurant this morning....they'd not plowed our road and only one other vehicle had been down/up the road since the snow/sleet. We're partway down (or up) a hill, so getting going sometimes is a challenge. (The plow truck went by for the first time at 10:30 am!)

Oh, heck...let's do a bad news/good news thing!

Bad news......both my reading lamp (one of those "true light" lamps, which I NEED) and our coffeemaker died on the same day last week.....AAARRRGGGHHH!!

Good news....I was able to replace the lamp more inexpensively than I thought I'd be able to.

Bad news...I couldn't find a coffeemaker I liked.

Good news....we have a spare, so I've time to shop around.

Bad news.....the guys that brought our new bed (a memory foam one) set it up with the mattress cover on upside down, which resulted in them putting the mattress on the box spring upside down, so we spent several nights trying to figure out why the *&^&* the bed was so uncomfortable.

Good news.....when we discovered the problem and flipped the mattress over, we discovered that it was much better! (imagine that!). We've slept on it (correctly) for almost a week now, and I think when we get used to it (they say 3 to 4 weeks) it's going to be even better than now. We're both sleeping better just due to the fact that it doesn't move when one of us is restless (me), so the other one (DH) isn't being woken up over and over in the night by a shaking bed.....once our backs get used to it, I think it's going to be wonderful....I HOPE!!

Bad news.....my niece was sick last week when I went shopping, so I didn't get to see her and grandniece....bummer!

Good news....for the first time in a long time, I was able to get nearly everything on my shopping list that day!

Bad news....we've STILL not had a chance to get out snowmobiling.

Good news...business seems to be picking up.

Bad news...the pickup we thought we could borrow until we buy one isn't available now.....the friend is having mechanical trouble with it. So....if we need stock on a non-delivery day that won't fit in my car, we're going to have to rent a pickup. That could be interesting...there are no car rental businesses in our area...hmmm....wonder if the guy that sells used cars does rentals.....hmmm! This also means we're not going to be able to get the door we need to the hobby/stock room until we get our own pickup....and we also aren't going to be able to get the house antenna until then, either. Sigh...figures!

Good news.....our office furniture has been shipped and is due to arrive Tuesday!!! YAY!!

Done Ramblin!