You guys. When I heard the snow was going to be followed by a few hours of freezing rain/sleet, I was SO SURE my power was going to go off.
I thought everything was going to stick to the trees and the power lines, which would have been an almost guaranteed power outage.
But nothing stuck to the trees! Or the power lines! Amazing.
So, thankfully, my power stayed on. And since I’d already braced myself for a chilly outage, this felt like a serious blessing. Yay!
In other thankful news, I am grateful:
for my sweet neighbors Donna and Hank
I thoroughly dug my van out on Sunday, but overnight, freezing rain came down, and on Monday morning when I tried to go to work, I promptly got stuck in a snowdrift on the other side of the street.
Hank and Donna had told me I could wake them up if I needed help getting to work, so I sheepishly rang their doorbell at 6:30 am.
“My van is stuck in the road!!”
Thankfully, they helped me get my van BACK onto the parking pad.
Then the three of us worked together to dig out their driveway and their 4-wheel drive truck. Then Hank kindly drove me to work and also picked me up afterward.
I have never been late to work in my life, but I was an hour and a half late on Monday. I had called ahead, of course, and when I arrived (very late!) they were honestly just happy I showed up at all. Ha.
that I can get out now
I volunteered to swap a later-in-the-week shift so that I could go in on Tuesday to help out, and thankfully that time I was able to successfully get on to the road. Woohoo!
that I still have my van
I love my Civic, of course, but my van is much better for the current circumstances because it is much higher up off the ground. I’m so glad I hung onto it.
My Civic is actually still snowed in/iced in, and I’m just going to leave it for now. My van can get me through until things melt more.
for my metal shovel
Book Club Elaine’s husband gave me one of his extra shovels a while back, and boy, was I grateful for it this week! The freezing rain left a very thick coating of ice atop the snow, and a regular snow shovel is no good with the ice.
Zoe and I had to work together to get it done; I broke up the ice with the metal shovel and tossed the big chunks out of the way, and she followed me with the regular snow shovel.
Thank you for the shovel, Mr. Book Club Elaine!
that my gym provided shelter
We are in the midst of a streak of unusually cold weather for our area.
So, when I made it back to the gym yesterday, and my heart was warmed to see that the auxiliary gym was full of cots so that people without homes could sleep there.
(My gym is a city-run rec center, which is why they can do things like this.)
Do you ever see instances of people helping others and just find it so moving? I teared up at the sight of the aux gym setup, thinking what a relief it must be for these people to have a warm place to go.
Helping others is beautiful, beautiful, beautiful.
for friends who listen to my frustrations
I have a wide collection of friends that I can text when I need to vent, and I am grateful. You know how sometimes you need to engage in a very specific vent session, and it’s over something not everyone would understand? It’s so great to have someone at the ready who will immediately “get” it.
(I hope it goes without saying, but since this is the internet, where things are often incorrectly assumed, I’ll clarify: I am, of course, always willing to be on the receiving end of this for my friends as well.)
for my Snoopy keychain
Zoe had given me a Snoopy keychain at Christmas, and the other day I realized the perfect use for it: corralling my work clamps and scissors.
This makes it pretty hard to accidentally leave them behind. And even if I DO leave them behind in a room, my coworkers will immediately know who these scissors belong to.
And that’s because I am the Snoopy-est nurse on the unit!
What are you thankful for this week?
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