*Snow Day*

When I was getting ready to leave this morning, it wasn't snowing when I looked out the window at 7am, but by the time I was outside putting my purse in the car and scraping the windows, it was snowing really quite heavily and beginning to stick.  Since last night the Weather Network had put up a snow warning for east Vancouver Island stretching from Campbell River to Nanaimo (for 5-10 cm of snow), and this morning they'd update that to be from Comox to Parksville (for up to 5 cm of snow), and since we don't have our winter tires on the car (waiting for our Tuesday appointment), I woke Maxx up and asked if he'd drive me to work.

By the time we got to work, it wasn't snowing any more, but when Maxx got home it was snowing quite hard still, and when he got up to come back to work to pick me up for 1pm, it was snowing heavily at home and snowing really heavily at work ... although by the time we got back to the south end of time the snow was gone.

My back's been bothering me quite a bit since our last trip to the pool, and this morning at work I was in agony sitting and chatting for 5 hours in the work computer chairs, so we popped down to the doctor's office, and I was actually able to sneak into an appointment with only a 20 minute wait  ... we love our new doctor's office!  The doctor actually thinks I may have slipped a disk, and put me on prescription pain medication to take twice a day, as well as muscle relaxants to take at night ... and thought I should maybe be away from work for the weekend.  I want to go back tomorrow, so I have a note for the second part of my shift today that I couldn't make (I did call in to work while waiting for my prescription), and the doctor said if I was still in a fair amount of pain tomorrow to come in and see him during his drop in clinic from 10am-4pm, and he'd give me another note.  I only have (*had*) four hours of sick time left, though, so I'm as of this evening over 1 hour (not counting the two unpaid sick days I had off in January), so I'm really hoping that by tomorrow morning bending over to do things such as put on nylons and undies and deal with shoes is much less painful.  We'll see!  You should have seen me yesterday when we did some errands, and found some new slippers for me (two pairs for $15), with me struggling not just to stay upright on one leg to try them on, but to bend far enough to reach the ends of my feet to take off my shoes and try on the slippers!

So, tonight I'm hoping Angel will dive under the covers and curl up against my back, that always makes me feel better!