Ice, Ice, Baby!

I woke up this morning with an ear infection and freezing rain. I left for work even with the ear infection and then got north of town and turned around because freezing rain started and there were reports of an inch of ice on the ground in the county where I work, so I turned around and came home. I just get tired of having my commute take 3 plus hours to get to work when it should only take 45 minutes because I get halfway there and find out that it is worse than I expected on the other side of the border. It is only Feb 10th and this is the fourth day this month where I have either had snow or ice or both to deal with and this ear infection is the last straw. I've had chronic ear infections all my life, so getting one this weekend was the last straw. I still have medicine from the last time so I put some of that in and if it doesn't clear up then I am going to drag my ass in to the doctor's office.

So what does a girl do when she has a yucky day outside and a yucky ear infection? Well, I am going to curl up on the couch and read my sock knitting books and listen to Amy Winehouse on my laptop. No ear buds with my ear infection. That would not be cool. I don't think I am going to cast on the socks yet, I might wait until this afternoon.

I did have a good weekend though. Yesterday afternoon it was warm enough to walk to the library so my sister and I walked over there and I checked out Fieldwork by Mischa Berlinski which was a National Book Award Finalist. It seems like it has a mystery/thriller element to it but just from reading the back cover, I think it is going to be different than anything else I have read in those genres.