Wow...things are quiet here at LJ lately (among my f-list)! I too have been busy with other things, and there hasn't been much going on otherwise. Just a few items of note.

One tidbit I forgot about in my previous catch-up post was that I wound up with a flat tire coming home from R's brother's the night of the 1st. Turned out to be a screw, about 1¾" long! Who knows where I got it; it's not the first time I've picked something up when there's been major snow, and we had a lot that morning. So Saturday, after I did my taxes, I took R's truck, got a can of Fix-a-flat, and put it in my tire; limped to Firestone and they said they wouldn't fix a tire that had Fix-a-flat in it! NICE! R called around and found a hole-in-the-wall tire shop in town that said they would ... and they did, for a whopping $15! Beats the heck out of paying for a new tire!

Valentine's Day – R made his world-famous (okay, maybe not world-famous, but it should be) spaghetti sauce ... with heart-shaped meatballs! LOL! If you're a romantic, you're thinking, "how sweet;" if you're not, you're thinking, "oh, barf!" His spaghetti has become a Valentine's tradition for us, and it was good as usual!

If anyone has a Facebook profile and wants to "friend" me there, let me know and I'll privately post my email here. So far I'm up to 8 friends, some of whom are people from my college years with whom I had lost contact years ago ... so that's pretty neat! Also friended a cousin, Thad (Ralph's son) in Columbus!

On a final note, R and I are 11 days smoke-free! That's right! I think we have it down this time, although I'm having a rougher time this week at work than I did last week; and it's strange since I'm not particularly stressed-out this week. Hopefully the anxiety will pass ... and SOON! Not experiencing it at home so much, so it's really strange. I'll just sit here and eat Tic Tacs the remainder of the day!

Going through another really cold snap here ... hoping that will pass soon too! And hopefully will catch some of the lunar eclipse tonight!