A Frustrating Day

 Yesterday's weather was not the most pleasant. It snowed, it rained, and then it settled in and snowed for many, many hours. This high got to -1C. This morning it is snowing lightly and -8C. Today is suppose to be a mix of sun, clouds and flurries with a high of -10C. 

Lifestyle

The winter solstice brought a lot of snow with it. My neighbour used his snow blower on the driveway and his son came over to finish scrapping it off. I went out to do the sidewalk and landing and it was slippery. I threw salt out on the top half of the driveway to make it safe to walk on. At noon, daughter-in-law and grandson shovelled the driveway again and it needs doing this morning. The municipality plowed the roads 3 times in 12 hours and may have done it late last night. We get to dig ourselves out from this storm only to be under a storm warning for Christmas Eve. 

I did do 2 loads of laundry yesterday. I also did a tiny bit of housework as most of my time was spent trying to cut paper on the Cricut. It was not my day. I ruined 2 pieces of paper after doing 5 cuts to no avail. I cleaned the blade and tried again on lighter paper. It took 2 cuts for those sheets. I got 6 snowflakes made. 

I was frustrated to say the least as this job should have been done in less than 2 hours. 

I do like that I could show case the snowman on the Lindt chocolates. 

I played with the memory book trying to set up the center page. I used the cut outs from the snowflakes daughter-in-law and I made the day before. 

I wanted to cut out dark blue music notes and found what I wanted. Cricut Design Space would not upload them onto the canvas. I tried free ones from design space to no avail. I have changed settings from live to beta, rebooted my computer and reinstalled Design Space. Nothing worked. I sent a email to them letting them know and I will phone them tomorrow. I started to think it wasn't my day to use the Cricut. 

I didn't knit last night as I wasn't in the mood. I was still upset about not being able to use Design Space. I was also worrying about the snow on the driveway.

Thoughts

    This is the earliest I have seen a lot of snow fall in Nova Scotia. To be under two snow warnings in a few days is unreal. I am a bit worried as I will be out Christmas Eve and then on Christmas Day. I do not like driving after dark in the snow. I will do it but will be a wreck by the time I travel the 3 miles home. 

    I have only to bind the quilt and I will have all my projects done for this year. I put several items I started on hold until the new year. I am going to spend time cleaning up my mess in the basement after Christmas. I am embarrassed how messy it is and need to deal with it. Once it is done, I will start sewing and crafting. If winter has come early, I will be sewing and crafting a lot as I don't go out much in this kind of weather. 

    My soreness is going away slowly. I am still having the one SI joint pop into place when I stretch in bed. I am not doing as much as I would like to. I don't want to be dealing with the pain and trying to see a physiotherapist when it is Christmas. I do what I can and leave the rest for others to tackle for me.

    In my frustration over the Cricut, I left a bigger mess in the family room. I am not happy that I did that but I couldn't clean up as I needed to leave the room. I was frustrated and couldn't have cared less about the mess. When I looked at it this morning, I was embarrassed. I will do a bit of paper tidying up today.  

Today

I am going to shovel some snow this morning, tidy up the paper mess in the family room, and then work on the quilt binding. I would like to start hand sewing it down so I can finish it by Dec. 25. If I am not too tired I will force myself to knit tonight. I need to keep busy in the evenings. 

Until the next time.......................................................................