As I Was Saying....A Couple Of Years Ago

So, here we are in this epic weather pattern since before the holidays.  I've held up incredibly well under the snow and ice.  My car is nestled in the garage, hibernating, since I didn't dare shovel her out.  I've held up well under this "house arrest" due to the weather.  But the one thing that I'm losing hair over is the MAIL!  What the what?  He's not making his appointed rounds neither snow nor rain, nor heat or gloom of night?  He doesn't even come in the sunshine!  But in all honesty, if and when he does comes it is in the" gloom of night".  What do you do with a mail delivery at 7pm or 8:30pm?  He also picks up mail at that time since we no longer have mailboxes?  That picked up mail is not going anywhere that time of night.  Additionally, he's not very good in bringing the circulars so that I can at least catch some sales.  I have never experienced such poor postal service.  The poor guy is wearing one of those lights strapped to his head like those brave souls that work in mines.  It's so not righteous.

The never ending snow and arctic air has made me realize how I can move forward through the vast avenues of technology.  You can order groceries on-line and they are delivered.  Prescription medicine can only be delivered on Monday, Wednesday and Friday from my pharmacy.  I can take photographs of checks and they are magically “delicious” and deposited into the bank.  It's like living in a semi-utopia for a recluse, save the bills.  With letters almost 50 cents a pop to mail the decision to start paying on-line must be considered carefully.

Since we last spoke, I got a new boarder in my home...and it's not a puppy.

It's my jaw-dropping aunt.  Since she came, it's been a year that keeps looping the last dramatic scene on the cliffs in "North by Northwest".

She's in the early stages of many things that have already lead to arguments over her disenchantment with my cooking, at first, and then she asked for Nutrisystem to the point of ad naseum and has proclaimed that she will not "eat chemical food" for the rest of her life.  She hasn't lost an ounce because she wants her Nutrisystem with french fries and Chinese takeout.

She also requires lots and lots of Pine-Sol.