Need Spring Now

I seriously am sick of the cold. I'm no lover of heat or anything, but I need Spring to happen...NOW!

Not exactly winter doldrums going on, but I do have a hard time finding energy for stuff right now. My body is ready for Spring, dammit. Besides, I'm ready to start working on the house...and that's hard to do when I can't open windows to remove paint fumes, et cetera.

Smacky has been sick since Thursday...which sucks, both for her and for me. She's spent the entire weekend wrapped in blankets and drinking tea. I spent Friday out with Nemo, Alan, and Anita. Fun times, despite the wife being ill. We went to the Louisville Orchestra's performance of Beethoven's 9th. While not perfect, it was impressive. The soprano soloist was unbelievable. Add to that getting to spend time with Alan and Anita, and my Friday was great.

Work has been hectic lately. I have a lot of smallish projects, most of them inter-twined with my larger projects, and none of them are complete, mostly because of red-tape/delays. Which leaves me with more and more open work and no ability to close them out. Grrrr. But at least all my co-workers are great and I don't hate life after leaving there.

Today was Doing-The-Taxes Day, and it sucked as much as I thought it would. The reduced salary meant less of a refund (I left my witholdings the same after buying our house since it means a yearly influx of money I can apply in bulk to pay off debt). But we might still be 100% out of debt (except for the mortgage) after the refund. I'll know more in a few days of time spent navigating through Turbo Tax. Blah. It shouldn't be so hard...