The big snow from this past weekend is slowly melting. Thankfully, we only lost power for about 2-1/2 hours on Sunday afternoon. I know folks who went several days without power. The forecast calls for a lot of rain starting tomorrow afternoon/evening, so I imagine that will wash a lot of the remaining snow away.

Meanwhile … here are some random things:
– My anxiety level has been a bit crazy this week which always makes for fun days.
– In two weeks we will be headed to Toronto.
– I have been super unfocused/unmotivated in regards to work this week.
– I need to get off my ass and really learn my lines for that show I am doing in January.
– I have eaten too many holiday treats. Looking at my belly tells me so.
– I am not going to weigh myself until at least February.
– Today is David and I’s EIGHTH anniversary!
– I am not sure that last sentence was grammatically correct.

...MAJOR WINTER STORM TO IMPACT THE REGION THIS WEEKEND... 
 
.Cold high pressure along the East Coast will interact with a 
moist low pressure system moving out of the Gulf of Mexico 
Saturday night into Sunday. Moderate to heavy precipitation will 
fall as a mixture of snow, sleet, and freezing rain across the 
region. Accumulations are expected to be greatest in western 
North Carolina. 
 
...WINTER STORM WATCH NOW IN EFFECT FROM SATURDAY EVENING THROUGH 
MONDAY MORNING... 
 
* WHAT...Heavy mixed precipitation possible. Total snow and 
sleet accumulations of 1 to 8 inches are possible. Ice 
accumulations up to two tenths of an inch are also possible. 
 
* WHERE...The mountains and foothills of western North Carolina, 
along and west of the Blue Ridge Escarpment. The highest snow 
and sleet accumulations are expected to be at high elevations 
along the Escarpment. 
 
* WHEN...From Saturday evening through Monday morning. 
 
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Travel could become very difficult or even 
impossible. Road conditions could deteriorate as early as 
Saturday evening, with highway travel continuing to be impacted 
through early next week. Widespread, prolonged power outages 
are possible.

UPDATE!

At this point, here is what might be happening in my neck of the woods this coming weekend. We are several days out, so the forecast might change … but … OMG SNOW!!! I am not a size queen, but I will take that 10″-20″. Ha, ha.

What’s been going on? I lost the last couple of days because of being too drunk (and hungover) and being too full of dread and anxiety. Ugh.

The drunk part was mostly fun. Glenn and Stephen hosted their annual holiday party this past Saturday and the food and wine flowed a little too freely. I really do need to learn some self control measures. I don’t have to drink every day, but when I do drink, I have a hard time knowing when to stop. Needless to say, Sunday morning was a bit rough.

But, apparently, my brain was not fully satisfied with just being hung over. By Sunday afternoon I was feeling lots of generalized dread/anxiety. I really hate it. There never seems to be anything specific that fuels it. I just get this intense feeling that something bad is going going to happen but I don’t know what. Everything seems tinged with darkness around the edges. It’s a pretty yucky way to feel. Yesterday was somewhat better and today is even a little better. It usually takes several days to fully shake it.

Anyhoo.

Also over the weekend, I bought myself a fancy new carry-on/backpack for the trip to Toronto. I did not obsess for at least a week about making this purchase. The first test at packing it went pretty well and I think I should be able to get all the stuff I want to take with me in it. But I really do need to try over packing it just to see exactly how much stuff I can cram in it. Yay, travel.

The Christmas season is fully underway. We put up the Christmas tree on Sunday. Christmas presents are slowly filtering into the house. I need to get off my ass and get some wrapped and under said tree this afternoon. The egg nog I made over Thanksgiving is now ready to drink. Yum!

And … they are calling for snow this weekend! Yay. Right now the forecast is very up in the air about the amount of white stuff we will get. That should be more in focus in the next few days. Hopefully it will hold off until Saturday evening as we have a board game double date for Saturday afternoon. Whee!

Take a wild guess who ended up at an Old Tyme photo place in Gatlinburg yesterday. Oh, the things you do after too many moonshine tastings.

And suddenly there is a trip to Toronto planned for the end of December into the first of January. It’s pretty exciting as this will be my first trip out of the country and the first usage of my passport (obviously). It will also be the longest vacation I have had in a really long time. We will be in the city for five days. I now have a little over a month to obsess over maps, mass transit, packing, sites to see … and, most importantly, get super duper nervous about the trip there and back (because I hate flying). I don’t think the boyfriend has any idea just what a freak I can be on a trip like this … especially in regards to dealing with air travel. Buckle up!

I have been a bit unfocused for the last several days … well, since last Friday really. Friday sucked and I haven’t been able to get back into the swing of things. Generally, I just feel un-enthused. Blah.

Meanwhile, here are some random things that have happened:
– Bought New Shoes
– Ate Pizza
– Finished Netflix’s The Haunting of Hill House (more on this later)
– Hung Up Some Coat Hangers
– Bought a New Rice Cooker
– Finished Daredevil Season Three

Cold temps have arrived early here in the mountains. We seems to have skipped fall and gone right into winter. It’s been cold since Saturday and cold/dreary/rainy since Monday … and I am already sick of it. Something tells me this winter is going to be really, really, really, really long.

*grump*grump*