Sunday

[magid]

+ Clearing most of my sidewalk with that mighty ice-clearing tool, the workboot. We'd run out of ice melt stuff Friday, but the ice was riddled enough that I could hit it with my heel, and the newly-exposed edges got more amenable to breakage by the time I'd worked my way back to them. It took over an hour, but it was incredibly satisfying.
- Wet workboots and socks.
- Not making it to yoga class at the gym.
+ Clearing my car off.
- Not being able to free my car from the ice below it.
+ French toast from snazzy breads (green olive and hot cherry pepper; cranberry, orange, and pistachio).
- Setting off the smoke detector while doing so. I turned on the fan above the stovetop, opened the door to the porch and a window, set up another fan, and Theora kindly fanned the smoke detector, and it eventually calmed down, enough so that I could close the door before too many flakes from the snow shower made their way in.
+ Returning a futon to Queue.
- Trying to figure out what to put in that space instead.
- Not having (or perhaps not knowing where I have) allen wrenches.
+ Making it to the play in time.
- Not walking there.
+ Walking back.
+ Seeing the play with Breedingimperf and Carolyn (who also ran into a high school friend and her aunt).
+ Staying for the talkback session.
- The closest of my bank's ATMs is broken, long enough to have acquired a number of annoyed notes on the official notice.
+ Making dinner for two (including the green salad I didn't get around to on Shabbat with sunflower seeds instead of nuts; it's a keeper).
- Salt notwithstanding, car still persisting in the state of car-sicle.
+ More time to talk, walking.
+ Being walked back as well.
- Not making it to the gathering I'd planned to attend afterward, given the car issue and the location.
- Realizing that something's gone wrong with my thermostat, since I can't override the current settings (my usual plan is to keep it cool, then override when I'm actually home). Not sure whether replacing the batteries will do it (since there's no 'replace batteries' warning on), but that's first line of defense. Until then, even more layers than usual...

Though it might not look like it, on balance, it was a pretty good day. If I can't get my car out, I am inconvenienced today, but won't need it until next week after that, so I can hope it'll melt by then.

edit and one weird thing: pulling a whole toothpick out of my sock.