random thoughts – Day 1,739 – (Friday) – relaxing

The morning was normal. The alarm went off. Air was blowing from the vent in the bedroom and the house was the correct temperature. Fridays are casual days so it was quick dressing in jeans and a chunky turtleneck.

The traffic was an extra special gift. There was none. The ride to the garage was annoyance free and smooth sailing. It was a pre-Christmas miracle. In the lobby of the building, the idyllic morning started to face a wrinkle and weirdness kicked in when my access card didn’t work. I couldn’t access the elevator to go upstairs or access the stairwell. Panic flashed through me and I wondered for a second if maybe I didn't work there anymore and someone forgot to tell me. 

Luckily, my colleagues who sit in the suite off the lobby were in and helped me get upstairs to my own department. A service ticket was entered for the nonfunctional access card. Security informed me it was still showing as active and might just be worn out. It’s several years old, so that would track. I got a new card and can once again move freely about the workplace. Whew!

Snowy roof on Shattuck Street.

I hadn’t read the weather forecast this morning, and bounced out of the house with my hood removed from my coat, leather gloves that aren’t warm, and boots with a higher heel than I would wear for snow. At 2:00, when I remembered I wanted to go to the downtown jeweler for batteries for two watches and saw it was snowing, I was caught a little off guard. I didn’t go to the jeweler.

It was still snowing at 5:00. The roofs and cobblestones on Shattuck Street were coated, but heavily traveled Merrimack Street was wet and shiny. The walk to the garage featured benches, wreaths, and streetlamps dusted in snow. It was pretty. The first snow is always pretty.

Front yard bunny!

At home, a bunny sat in the snow in the front yard, startled and on high alert as I parked the car. He froze and I tried to get some decent photos, but bunny was small and probably 15 feet away across the yard and it was nighttime dark, so the images weren’t that clear. When I moved to enter the house, bunny bolted out of the yard to the neighbors. 

It took less than five minutes for me to shed the coat and hat, greet Kiki, and march upstairs to change into the official staying in on the couch fleece pants. They are aqua with little penguins wearing scarves all over them and are super soft and cozy and the perfect relax at home and unwind after a stressful and expensive week. 

If I could just convince Kiki to join me on the couch, it would be the perfect picture of domestic bliss. Someday.