I give up trying to sleep anymore today! Ben’s alarm went at 3:45 AM. He and 5 buddies are off to Jasper to go snowboarding in the mountains for 2 days. He went with a really good group of guys, or I would never have let him go. He and 2 of the other guys that are going, are all instructors here, so they get to ski for free (which is a $100 savings) and they also get their hotel room 1/2 off. They’re going to freeze their knuckles off though as it’s -21 Celsius this morning!

I just nicely got back to sleep when hubby’s alarm went off at 6:00. He just has 4 more days of work left at his current store.

Sarah’s alarm just went now at 7:00, as she’s off to work too. Yay for having the house to myself! Laundry is finished, and house is clean, so I’m not sure what I’ll do today.

I do have to phone our mechanic today to see if the heater fan knob for my car came in. Sarah had borrowed it (you’d think I’d learn), and it snapped off in her hand! Fortunately it broke off when it was on “low”. I can’t imagine if it had broken in HIGH! whew! But now that it has gotten so cold, that pissy little amount of fan can’t keep my windows defrosted, and Sarah and I nearly froze our feet going to the hockey game the other night! LOL

We’ve also decided to spend another $1000 to get the air bags all properly re-installed in my car. I guess legally it’s a wise thing to do, but more than that, the interior of my car was obviously held together with the stuffing of the air bags! not unlike a turkey LOL Now my steering wheel is all “hollow” as is the dash board, so it looks like it’s been driven by a bunch of wild nuts for 15 years! My car was in mint condition, and very low mileage. My plan was to drive it for another 5 years, buy a new one, pay it off and then retire. As it is now, it makes me so mad looking at all the mess, that I just want to drive it to the junk yard! I’ll be much more content to drive the bugger until one of us croaks if it isn’t falling to pieces!