Happy birthday to my brother!

 The Kingston city was so excited they cleared the snowbanks! It was a long day with lots of meetings and things to do on my part.

Wrapping up

 James is looking forward to getting back on the ice. But he has a long drive to get there and I am not sure what the billet covid situation is.

Got to hang out with Kim for a bit today. 

Made potato and pork plate. Very tasty. James picked up KFC.

who knew when you turn 50

 I got a letter in the mail from a health agency asking me to send them my poo! That seems so strange to have these things in the mail. Is that a biohazard?

I went to loblaws in the morning before work and it was very quiet

frozen skating

 Today I went to Food basics. They still did not have juice.

Watched Rustle and elevation online. Rustle had the Bishop speaking! Holly was speaking at Elevation.

James went skating in the evening which was very cold. He came back frozen pretty solid but has defrosted now.

bear attack tip

 

google fit

 I added google fit and my phone now counts my steps. It only counts my steps outside when I am carrying my phone, not my steps inside. Yesterday it said 9000, today a bit less because Loblaws was closer than Food Basics.

I went to Loblaws later than usual but it still wasn't too busy. They didn't have the usual bread that I get but they had a second choice which was ok. When I go early there often is no bread at all!

Spent some time working on the end of year Rustle finances.

billet

 Today I went to Food Basics, they were missing quite a bit of stock so maybe the stock people were missing last night, otherwise there may be supply problems.

Today was a lot of managing email, working enrollments.

James' billet family has covid. He is supposed to be travelling back in 9 days so we'll have to see if he gets the all clear. I thought Grand Falls would be more protected.

finally wrapping up the Fall term

 We are still wrapping up all the deferred exams. Spent the day working through emails. Went to a timetabling summit. 

Made Samosa inspired chickpea plate which was very good. Used a lot of pans though.

James had physio today. His team has started meeting online to do workouts as well.

snow cleanup

 Today things started to clean up. I didn't have a lot of hope for the chef's plate because of the situation in Toronto where it needed to be packed. It didn't arrive so I made a chilli with leftovers, so that worked out. Hopefully the sidewalks are cleared tomorrow so I can run some errands.

lots of snow

 There certainly was a lot of snow. A few neighbour's ventured out to do some shoveling but there were no cars going on the road. Even the buses stopped running for a while. A few hours ago the street got plowed.

This was funny as not much has changed:

snowmaggedon 22

 Supposed to be snowy tomorrow. We'll see how much.

Today did some shopping, watched Rustle and Elevation. Did some work. Need to clean the house!

competition

 The competition was pretty fun but tight for time. Hopefully the students had fun.

It was very cold on the walk to Rustle but I kept well bundled up. There is some ice on the inside of my laundry room!

disagreeable

 On Wed night made mini turkey bites and something didn't agree with me. I wasn't sick at all but I had pain. There was nothing usual in the meal so I'm not sure what that was all about. It took about 12 hours to clear my system.

Yesterday I didn't eat much but today I was back to normal and made cheeseburger pasta- it was good!

Tomorrow I am judging an engineering competition and I have a meeting at Rustle so will need to juggle it all.

frozen solid

 It was a cold night and very cold out so I didn't want to go outside.

The chef's plate was frozen solid so I made the veggie meal- black bean tamale casserole that had biscuits on top. It was good.

Day 2 getting through!

freezing rain

 Yesterday I went out in the so called freezing rain but it was just warm enough that it was easy enough to grip in regular winter boots. Today the temperature had dropped and was much icier especially when there was a light covering of snow overtop.

Today was day 1 of the winter term. There were some challenges indeed but made it through. Tomorrow making a training video. Temperature is dropping so not sure about going out too much.

fuzzy

 It was -19 this morning when I went out in my new fleece lined pants. Not cold at all. 

Picked up more warm socks at Giant Tiger.

Still working on finishing up the fall term and starting the winter term.

hibernation

 Didn't go out again today but did manage to get through a lot of work. I got the some grades out and worked though the grade adjustments for another course. Tomorrow I have to notify students who failed, which is never fun.

I also need to tackle email, making up timetables for J-section and making sure everything is ready for the Winter term courses to begin on Monday.

I am however going to go to bed before 1am, which is a good thing!

inside day

 Today I didn't get outside at all, which was disappointing but I got through a lot of work which was encouraging. Tomorrow I have a presentation to do and I'll be trying to finish wrapping up the Fall term.

expiry

 I had one plan today to email the Faculty Advisors but with all the meetings and regular crises these emails got delayed until the evening and then I did get tired by 1:30am so I expired myself and will need to write the rest of them tomorrow. Luckily I now have a template so they should go faster in the morning.

even later

 Today did a lot of Mod 1 review and posting of grades. Worked even later. My arm is stiff from the work. I did walk to food basics in the morning to pick up spicy steak for the boy. He's a big fan despite everything else he eats being bland.

The other day when it was snowy I saw a tow truck pulling one of the sanding dump truck that was still FULL of sand. That must have been a heavy tow.

Today was the first day that an amazon package arrived in Glenburnie in the morning (4am) and wasn't delivered that day. Either they have more packages than normal or less drivers than normal.

Tomorrow have to sort out a bunch of things for mod 3 as well as more mod 1 review.

A long day back

 A long day but I got through a lot. Went to Canadian Tire first thing as James needed windshield wiper fluid.

Lots of email and sorting things out to get things in place for the course. Then the afternoon we did course reviews. Then got project allocations out in the evening and that caused a bit of an explosion of email. Got through it all for 1:15am. Have an early meeting tomorrow though.

Day 1

 The first day of 2022 was an ok start to the year. I did some reading, writing, dishes, laundry and walking as well as getting some work done. Made chicken for dinner. James went walking with friends. His ear is improving. Tomorrow I need to finalize the project teams. This should have been posted 30 days ago!

Appears to be snowing.

shoes

 

My boots with cleats (or without cleats) were making my feet raw- either because I hadn't worn them in a long time or because their padding is wearing out. So I switched to shoes. In December! To allow my feet to heal.

I went to Loblaws in the morning as James was having some ear pain and the telephone doctor thought it might be sinuses. Negative covid test, so not that! I picked up some of the medicine that the doctor recommended.

Worked during the day to finish the fall review. Will have a meeting with Brian on Monday to finalize everything.

Made messy beef naanwiches for dinner. Brownies for dessert as requested by James.

Watched the Praise party at elevation.

Happy new year!