That post I keep meaning to make...

So very much on my mind, and this is likely just going to be snippets to be enlarged upon later. If it does turn out to be a full braindump then I'll cut-tag it.

• First of all, hugs to the mousie and the visiting squeeze. Nice to know that something is working out somewhere.
• For those that keep track of such things, I'm currently in the forsaken snowscape that Maryland has become. The snowmageddon, snowpocalypse, snOMG, and snowverkill hash tags all apply to this mess, for those that are Twitter minded. This is awkward and damned inconvenient; Katsucon starts Friday and as it's likely to be my last con for a good while it leaves me facing dragging someone I love out onto the roads to shuttle my fat ass down to the hotel. I'm not thrilled about that. Neither is my proposed ride.
• My sister (the older of them) and her family stand on the raw edge of dissolution. Things have been bad due to the ongoing financial disaster and have been exacerbated by being house-bound all together for a week. Nagging issues that were slowly growing (and were going to have to be sorted out eventually) all decided to explode at once, and the resulting screaming match have him on the brink of leaving. I'm hoping things will hold until Crystal can get over there this weekend and yell at ALL of them (no one person is at fault, they've all contributed as can be expected) over being utter buttheads. I'm a bit too close to things, so it's just as well that I'll be absent for that particular intervention. Crystal is direct and blunt and angry... I'm all that plus an overly healthy dose of 'mean'. Enough is enough, you know? I'm at the point of wanting to throttle them all.
• I'm still on a cane. This makes navigating through snow and ice just EVER so much fun. *grumbles*

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So all of that was keyed last night. The immediate problem is snow, and lots of it, that undid all of the digging out we'd done in the wake of the last storm. Thanks to the heavy winds, nearly all of the new snow was deposited in the areas we'd dug out already, leaving us locked in again. Having gotten out and worked with the shovel, I know now that I won't be getting out today unless I get a minor miracle. I've had to stop for a rest; my back and hips are screaming what I'm guessing are profanities in languages I don't even recognize. Crystal manages almost twice what I can in a burst, and Kelly is the John Henry of snow shovelers. All I can do is keep piddling along and try to help, or at least stay out of the way, and pray that the neighbor with the snow blower comes to our rescue again. I need this con, this vacation, desperately to prevent a personal implosion. Katsucon was supposed to be my 'last ride' for a while, and losing it would be very very bad for me. *curls up in a ball and prays for the snow to go away*