Feeling better, glad to say.
I do have an infection, but have to wait till Saturday to get the meds, as 1. I'm nearly broke, after paying the rent, and 2. I have to work 10 1/2 split shift, Friday, no way I'm going to spend my lunch hour hanging around the druggist, waiting for my script to be filled. I only have to work five hours Saturday, so it can wait 'till then. I'd go tomorrow, but have to spend the last of my spare cash at the laundromat, as I'm near out of clean clothes again. I miss my car so much, when it comes to little things like laundry and shopping. It takes so much longer to do simple chores and errands, when you've no car--cabs, buses, even walking...can take one an hour to two hours longer just to do ordinary stuff that way. But, it's not like I have a choice, do I? No use grumbling about it. I just have to face it--I'm a prisoner to the cab and bus companies.
Well, rainy day here--a good kind of rain, the kind we've been needing. Most of our rain, for the past month and a half, has come from storms--quick bursts of heavy rain. We've not had a good all-day soaker in quite some time. Some of the creek beds up north, I'm told, are nearly dry. So this should be good. Raining pretty good out there, right now. I'd rather the rain any day, then that gosh-awful tropical heat and humitity we had, before. That just zaps the very life-force out of you, that sort of weather.
I have to go out later--she groans. I'd rather take a nap--rainy days are good days for catching up on one's lost sleep, or, in my case catching up on my sleep AND recuperating my health. But, not today, alas. Have to go to the office supply store outside of town, and fax some stuff to my student lenders. Long afternoon ahead--it's only a mile away, but it can take half an hour just to get there, by bus. And another 45 minutes--standing around in the rain, getting back, because this is moronic Glens Falls, and there's no bus stop on the other side of the street--means I have to get on where I got off, travel in the opposite direction of where I live--ride the bus to the end of the line, and wait for it to head south again. That totally sucks. Totally. There's only two bus shelters in the entire transit system, as well--one downtown Glens Falls, and one in Queensbury at the Wal-Mart store.
So, yeah, gonna' get just a little wet, this afternoon. Oh, I don't mind much. Heck, if I could work outdoors all day with a 60 below ( minus 51 C) wind chill blowing in my face, I can handle getting wet. Outside of the tropical heat, and thunderstorms and ice storms, when it comes to weather, with me, it's six in one, half a dozen the other. Rain, sun, cold, snow, sub-zero temps, raging blizzards, pouring rain... whatever--no big deal. I'm a northeasterner...most weather's not going to stop me. Geez, this area has even held parades during snow storms...weather's weather, not much one can do about it, ey? I've even had people, at the amusement park, when I was running the rides, go on rides when it was snowing/pouring rain. Just another day, to us. Don't know why some people fuss so much about normal rain--now, last June, that was different. We were ready to start loading up the ark, ha-ha. Heaviest rainfall ever, in western NY state, since the 1860's...it poured down buckets of rain for three weeks straight! That was a bit of a drag--especially since the windscreen wipers on my car had ceased working! And I had a 35-mile drive to my job at the racetrack/casino. That was...a bit of a challenge, I must say.
I like the rain. Rainy days seldom get me down--except when mum and I had the flea market business...bit of a drag, selling in the rain and mud, that was.
Well, I'll be off in an hour or so, so must get on, make lunch and tidy up a bit. Cheers.
