It suddenly turned wintery yesterday, and last night was our first hard freeze. When I came out of work at 9:00, it was 37 degrees. When I started the car, there was a dinging noise and a light came on on the dash. What the....? What could possibly be wrong with the car already? I had plenty of gas, I knew. But it was a little picture of a road with a big snowflake in it, and underneath, it said "possible icy roads"! I was really surprised - I had no idea that it would do that. People who have seen my car have said that it has some features that they have seen only on high-end cars (like the automatic windshield wipers that come on when needed and run as fast or as slow as they feel necessary) and I guess this is another example of that. It's a small thing, but I am impressed. We did not get ice last night, though my wasabi coleus went from green to brown and mushy.
Since I was working and Kym didn't get home from work till 7:00, I didn't buy any Halloween candy. I usually have about 100 trick or treaters, so I felt a little bad about being gone, but there was no way around it. Hey, I saved some money and I don't have any leftovers!
Today we gave each new bush in the yard - 10 all together - a fertilizer spike to help them through the winter, and I started raking the back yard, Blitz was outside playing with his ball and enjoying running around in his new coat. He quickly claimed one of the leaf piles as his own, and stood or laid in the middle of it with his toys. I just raked around him. There are lots of leaves still to fall, but last year we made the mistake of waiting too long before raking. Then we had a sudden early snow and they were frozen to the ground. Thus began the winter of 2013-2014, and it didn't let up until March. Not going to make that mistake again.
How did it get to be November already???
Training for the early part of the tax season is two weeks from today, and the regular training starts the next Monday. Still trying to figure out how the home improvement place and the tax place will fit together. For the early tax season, at least, I can work daytime hours and then still work at the other job at night. I can attend the daytime training classes and work evenings, too. The really busy part of the early season only lasts a week or two, anyway. But tax season is another matter.
I was originally told that part-time at the home improvement place had to be at least 10 hours. If I could do two five-hour days, that would work, but giving up three evenings a week might be difficult. There are plenty of weeks when it wouldn't hurt for me to be off in the evenings, but it's hard to guess when they would be. I'm afraid that it is all going to be kind of last minute, but at least I did tell them about the conflict. I know that I could quit totally until April with no hard feelings, but I really don't want to have to. I earn more at the tax place, so I don't want to give up hours there in order to keep the other job happy. One way or another, the next few weeks will make things more clear. I just hate not knowing how things will go.
Time to go set the clocks back (if I can remember which ones I have to do, and which do themselves). I plan to use my extra hour tonight sleeping! :)
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