What an eventful past week and a half!
I birthed (weird, but we'll go with it) the idea for this blog post a few days ago where this would have been started with "What an eventful past week!" but things got busy and my eyes and brain were tired after work, and so here we are on Saturday evening.
Monday, January 4 - Nate's official first day as an employee with his energy company here in the BigD! Woohoo! He's been working for them in a contractor-type position since April 2020, but then was made permanent by his headhunter guy as of October, and then shortly after asked to come on board as a true blue employee. I don't know what "true blue" means, but again...we'll go with it. ALSO - this was the 12th anniversary of our first date on 1/4/09. ;)
Tuesday, January 5 - My employer (The Doge) informed me that we qualified for the first round of the Covid-19 vaccine, so I hopped on that gravy train and booked my little tushiie to Parkland to get my arm shot-up with who knows what the good stuff. This is pretty crazy considering only frontline health workers, people with pretty serious conditions, and a few over the age of 70 or so were the only ones authorized to get the shot at this point. Considering I'm going into work either 2 or 3 days every week AND I don't want to risk getting the virus AND I don't want BigNate to get the virus, I didn't hesitate at the chance to go ahead and get it. I did not feel the shot at all (like for-realz), but then after I got home, I had a little bit of a headache, so I went to bed a tad early. I woke up mid-slumber with a sore arm, and my arm was PRETTY sore the whole next day. But then I was back to normal on Thursday. They went ahead and scheduled me an appt. three weeks later (on 1/26) to get the second dose of the shot.
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| Discreet purse shot whilst waiting the 10 min. after the shot was administered to make sure I didn't drop dead. |
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Unbelievable. Saddening. Sickening. Other wordly. Before even hardly any of the pictures and footage were released and Nathan remarked to me while sitting at the kitchen table, teleworking (3pm our time) "Some people just broke into the Capitol," I still couldn't have imagined this.
Thursday, January 7 - My brother-in-law turned the big 33! Still some joy in the chaos and confusion.
Sunday, January 10 - It snowed in the BigD! Other parts of North TX (and Shreveport - go figure!) received a substantial white covering on the ground and trees and whatnot, but sadly, we didn't. It definitelly fell and was really pretty floating down from the heavens, but it'd been rainy before that, so it just turned to water on the ground. Still pretty rad, though!
Monday, January 11 - We signed a renewal on our lease on the ole Gaston! Not that memorable, but it's kind of crazy that we're about to hit our 1-year mark in Dallas. (I bet you thought I was going to say "The BigD" there. ;)) Cheers to the nexty year filled with (hopefully!) waaaaay more exploring, waaaaay more socializing, and waaaaay less social distancing, mask wearing, hospitalizations, and death.
Tuesday, January 12 - My niece, and daughter of said brother-in-law turned the big 4! She's such a cutie!
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| A PawPatrol-filled Christmas |
Not much eventfulness after Tuesday besides just learning more about the Capitol Riots and Trump officially being banned from Twitter (thank God!), but everyone is worried about Biden's inaugurations, which is scheduled for Wednesday, 1/20. They're sending in lots of National Guard troops to stand ready, and tons have already been deployed to the Capitol.
So wild. I remarked to Nathan on Wednesday when he told me about the Capitol chaos..."what country are we living in???!? Seriously??"
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