Good evening! Definitely a cold day for my 39th birthday 🎂

I did something that I haven’t done in a long time — slept in late. But I also stayed up fairly late last night, until around 10 PM. But it just looked so cold outside, and my apartment was cold, so I was quite happy to stay home and inside today, just taking it slow and decompressing from the busy week and weekend that was last weekend. I might have to go into the office tomorrow, so I wasn’t in a rush to be a busy body, plus I didn’t want to get my truck covered with salt right after washing it on Tuesday earlier in the week. Going to get salty tomorrow when I go out to the folks house and maybe into the office, but hopefully not as bad as it would have been today.

Partly cloudy and 8 degrees in Delmar, NY. ⛅ Breezy, ️17 mph breeze from the northwest 🌬 . The current wind chill is -10. There are 5.5 inches of snow on the ground. ☃ ️Things will start to thaw out at Tuesday around 1 pm. 🌡️

We got a little bit of snow this morning, ❄️ but really not a lot. More like a dusting, maybe an inch or two on the existing snow. But the real story was just the continued cold and wind most of the day. What we didn’t get in snow was more then made up for by the cold. I was more then happy to stay snug in my bed 🛌 well into the morning hours, then spend the remainder of the day either next to heater and heating pad on my bed or working on some day on my computer.

Needless to say, I did not go out for my evening walk. 🍝 I did have a nice dinner of spaghetti and meatballs and garlic bread for dinner though. That’s about as fancy as I cook. Especially with inflation, always looking for ways to save money, that because my bank account only had $62 above the minimum. Granted I get paid next Tuesday, and all that matters is I maintain the minimum balance for the month, but it just seems like as soon as money comes in, it goes out to pay the rent, the heat, the food and fuel bills. ⛽ My credit card balance was lower this month, as I didn’t do any traveling 🏠 but money sure seemed to go out the door. Part of it was the big tax bill I had this month, to cover some of my dividend taxes, but I expect I will still end up owing money when I file my taxes.

I thought about going down to the library, 📚 but it just was so cold out, and I don’t like the whole muzzle thing, and I can find ways to entertain myself at home. Plus for a good portion of the day, my shoulder was super sore, 👤 it’s like I pulled a muscle in it or something last night. I wasn’t sure why my whole left side of body felt so awful — it’s the COVID of course — but then it went away. I don’t remember lifting anything heavy or doing anything to hurt my shoulder, but maybe I’m getting old.

Does my birthday feel any different then any other cold wintery Saturday in January? 👴 Really know, but I’ve come to realize birthdays like most holidays aren’t particularly special or noteworthy. It’s nice though when you have them off, although it just happened that this year was a Saturday. And I certainly needed the day to decompress after a busy week last week. There was a usual drove of Facebook comments, text messages and other kind words said to me on my birthday, 🎂 but I’m just more focused on surviving another day, in the cold awful winter ⛄ and making it to nicer days when it’s sunny and warm out during the summer.