Tomorrow's the day

 Back in January, before I knew I was going to get an "early" (for my cohort) shot, I was really cranky about my upcoming birthday: "What's the point," I said "in accepting that I am another year older if I literally cannot do anything to celebrate it?" (this was when we were starting to hear about Variants Of Concern, and also that vaccine distribution still had a lot of problems). I thought, "Well, if it's not cold or rainy, MAYBE I could go to Chickasaw and hike around a little, but I can't count on that, because there's  a good chance the weather will be lousy" and the fastest way for me to become cranky and unable to enjoy any alternative is to have a plan in place that I cannot do.

Well, fast forward to the 11th, when classes were inexplicably cancelled (weather HERE was okay though south of us they did have ice) and people who had made appointments with our "pod" couldn't make it, and I got very lucky.

(Heck, back in January, I was saying "All I want for my birthday is for my MOM to get a vaccine appointment" and told myself I'd be content with six more months of waiting if that was what it took for me to get the vaccine. And she had her second shot today.)

So - two weeks out from the vaccine, seeing good news about how it's giving you good immunity at that point AND ALSO after two doses it looks like it cuts transmission, maybe I celebrate a little. So I do plan to go to Sherman, buy a little minky and stuffing beads for the dino pattern, look at yarn, look at books and magazines, look at spring/Easter decorations and maybe consider buying something, maybe go to Ulta, maybe even go to the bookstore?

(Yes, I will mask up, I will continue to do that until official word is we can dispense with them, because I don't want to look like "that a-hole." And I will try to distance; I mostly did in the before-times anyway because I am unsure of people I do not know. But I will go). 

If I get lunch-hungry while down there, there are a couple decent places that do drive-through and either eating in my car or, if it's warm enough, finding an outdoor table, would work for once. 

And I am going to Kroger for groceries, but also expecting - since we're only a week out from Snowmageddon - to not be too unhappy if they don't have some of the things I want. But if they have their halfway-decent slices of cake (or one of their "frozen for one" desserts) I will get it, and have it with whatever I choose to do for dinner (I already got my 'carry out barbecue dinner' - that was last night, after counseling, I was tired and didn't want to cook). But maybe now I can start going back like once a month or so and not have to depend so much on little Pruett's and do without some products I like or use? And perhaps, even, at low-busy times, go back to Wal-mart and go IN? It's nice that things are beginning to change a little and improve; it was getting to the point where "hang on for just another month" was not something I trusted any more, that it felt like forever.

I also have a few Amazon packages that I presume are gifts; the only thing I ordered recently were more of the Mitsubishi pencils I like and those came today and it was pretty obvious it was them.