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First Snow Day of Second Grade

The school district had already called the two-hour delay the night before, so I was already planning to drop Connor off at the centralized before-school Extended Time location used for weather delays and cancellations. As it happens, I overslept like stupid, so we hadn’t left the house yet when my pocket buzzed with a school cancellation notice.

I decided to work from home and let Connor have an actual snow day.

I used part of my lunch hour to go watch Connor play in the snow.

After lunch, I went back to doing actual work. Mei was super confused about why all of her humans were at home.

Connor played Atari with his Dad for a little while before he went out by himself to play in the snow. I finally called him back inside at 5:00pm, at sunset, and he still asked me why he had to come in.

I’m glad I threw Connor a bone and let him stay home for an honest-to-goodness snow day. He had a total blast.

 

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First Snow

Once again, I find myself with time to kill between appointments. Googled coffee shops between Point A and Point B… and here I am, at a new-to-me coffee shop that is so popular on the first snowy day of the season that I had to wait for a seat to open up.

Waiting for a seat at Sip Coffee

We’re supposed to get at least two inches of snow this afternoon and evening — possibly up to five inches. For the first snow event of 2019-2020. Of course I would pick today to take a half day off for a chiropractic adjustment and a thyroid ultrasound.

To be honest, I’m a little nervous about the ultrasound. I feel like my thyroid nodule has gotten bigger — in fact, I was having trouble swallowing a few months ago. I’m not sure if my voice has truly gotten more hoarse or if I’m imagining it.

The worst case scenario would be a hemithyroidectomy — removal of the left lobe of my thyroid. Then I’d have a synthroid medication to add to my current cocktail of antidepressant and ADHD stimulant.

I’d rather not.

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The snow has been falling steadily for the last hour or so, at least. I’m not convinced that I want to drive out to karate class after the sun sets and the roads freeze up good and proper. I’ve almost made up my mind to skip… but it’s still three hours off. We’ll see.

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Update: Doc says my thyroid is still fine — the nodule is 3.4cm or so in diameter, which is about the same as the last scan.

Also, we are so not going back out tonight. The roads are a sloppy mess, but it’s pretty to look at.

First Snow

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Exist.io: My Week In Notes

I’ve been using the Exist app for over two months, and it’s almost everything a data nerd like myself could hope for. It pulls in data from the four corners of the interwebs and aggregates it to give me a picture of how various factors affect my mood, my sleep, my weight, etc.

It’s also handy as a nightly microjournal, since I log my mood and a quick note. I haven’t decided if I’m going to make this a regular lazyblog category, but I do like the idea of sharing this quick summary of the past week.

Daily Notes from last week Daily notes from last week

All in all, last week was a good one. I especially enjoyed having Aaron home from work for a vacation week. 😀