Finished listening to The Home For Unwanted Girls by Joanna Goodman. Loved it.

Awake since 4, up at 4:30. Wasn't I supposed to be waking up later, not earlier, because of the time shift?? Actually it was the wind that kept me awake, it is slamming the house with 50mph gusts and my anxiety from living at honey's, fearful of the diseased trees falling on the house, remains. Even though there are no trees close enough to fall on this house. It's the creaking and squeaking with each gust that kept me awake. So I finally just got up for the day.

Looked at more vacation possibilities. I'm leaning toward the Upper Peninsula again, the far western part this time by the Porcupine Mountains and closer to the Apostle Islands. I'll check with the kids and see if any of them want to join me. The last time I was there was three years ago where I developed the inner ear infection that turned into what we now refer to as 'the dizzy' that turned into 2 months of loss of balance with vertigo, CAT scans and brain MRI's, and 6 weeks of physical therapy to be able to retrain my eyes and walk in a straight line again. I still can't tilt my head back to look up or lay flat on my back without the room spinning. Such fun. But back out of that wormhole... I've found some cabins facing west on Lake Superior that would be ideal. And I told honey last night that I wasn't going to buy 2 tour tickets if he wouldn't commit, so if he does decide to come at the last minute, i couldn't guarantee he'd get to do the island cruise.

I really want to learn how to kayak.

It is Pi Day tomorrow and I am determined to make a pie, dammit.

And more snow on the way Sat night-Sun. It's anyone's guess how much at this point. I've seen 3-9 inches and 1-2 feet. It all depends on where it will track. Oh please oh please oh please track south. I just can't bear more snow. I just can't. I am so done with winter.

And I will have to get all my errands run tonight and Saturday.

I need a vacation.

I had to tell one of my team members that she didn't have enough time off available to take Tuesday off. She just asked yesterday if she could take it off. She already has today and Monday off. I'm being a hardass about it. Why should she get more time off than what she is allotted? If she were hospitalized, sure. But personal time? She needs to balance it out better. This woman uses every hour as it becomes available. This is the first time I've told her no. Just so she is aware that what her previous supervisor allowed wasn't going to pass with me. It's about fairness. The others on the team all have at least 100 hrs banked. Hardass. Whatever. I don't care what she thinks about me. She's the weakest link in our team and will be the first to go if our team has to lay off people like other depts did.