Good Friday

The roads were deserted, the office is deserted... why am I here?  I really should have taken today off.  At least the sun is out and it's kinda warm.

Holidays have gotten wonky since Dad died.  The first Thanksgiving found me driving Mom to Maine.  I hate travelling on holidays but her youngest son wanted her (not me, just her) in Maine for Thanksgiving.  So, I drove. Not a good time and I refused to do it again last year.  Christmas, birthdays, Easter... all have drifted from family gathering at our parents to everyone doing their own thing.  It's funny, Dad turned out to be the glue that kept eveyrone together. 

This Easter Mom's youngest son will be in Manhattan for the weekend and she's planning on taking the train into the City and having dinner out with he and his wife and Gretchen is going with her.  I won't be going.  I think it will be a nice, quiet crochet/knitting marathon in front of the television.  Gretchen is planning on doing Palm Sunday festivities with the kids the last weekend in April.  I'm all... WTF?  It's just weird.  I could have done it with the kids last weekend but no one else was available (except the kids), so I let it go.

Yet more crappy weather on tap

I heard on the radio DC has shut down due to the snow.  What is their excuse when there is no snow?

Hugo Chavez has died: NYT Op-Ed In the end, an awful manager. 

His death has a profound iimpact on Cuba as well, which is interesting.

Chavez' VEEP announced yesterday the CIA gave Chavez cancer.  I guess the US doesn't hold the corner on crazy politians after all.

Somehow I don't find that re-assuring.

The DOW went over it's all time high yesterday and I'm not sure that is a good thing - irrational exuberance to quote Greenspan. As the sequester cuts start to kick in and effect not only state governments but also individuals, I think we might see the DOW crater over the summer.

Not much crocheting got done last night as I was watching NCIS.  I don't multitask well.

More than two years

and so many changes in my life.

At the end of January 2011 I was fired - due to the "economic downturn".

March of 2011 the last of my three grandmothers died, at the age of almost 99.

May 2011 I started a new job with a long commute and far less money.

May 2011 old car literally flamed out - bought new car.

August 2011 Dad died at the age of 72.

November 2011 the job moved and now I have a 75 mile daily commute.

2012 was chaotic, frantic, hectic... but death free. And, I kept my job, so that's a plus.

2013 has brought two suicides... and it's only the 5th of March. (Happy Saint Piran's Day!)

I feel like the hamster on the wheel and no one will let me off. I keep telling myself this is going to get better, but I think I might be a congenital liar.

This is going to get better.

Really.

Anyway... for sanity's sake the needles, hooks, yarn, thread, canvas, etc., came out of storage late last year and I'm knitting, crocheting, stitching up a storm.

So I don't crazy and start beating random people on the street.

Yarn therapy.

Because I can't afford meds.

If I can get the camera to work, I'll upload some pictures of what I'm working on.