Things that happened today (well yesterday now):

1) I definitely informed Dave this morning (publicly) that his cover of Achey Breaky Heart was NOT my favorite because country music twang gives me physical pain AND that the mullet is definitely NOT his best look (the mullet and the teasing about it in Crew being the reason for the cover choice) and that if he loved it that mattered most but I thought he could do better with his hair. Did he react by blocking me à la Britt for Delta Rae when being told that the country music at their shows was causing me enough pain not to attend further shows while it was any part of the band? No. He's a guy, not a petty tyrant who engages in female relational bullying. He laughed and told me he knew and had been trying to see how far he could push it before I was honest instead of polite and it was my own fault for telling him when he asked if he should cut it short or grow it out again that he should do what he wants with it because his hair looks good any way I've seen it.

Because not everyone is a defensive bully who treat their social media like a petty tyrant of their own small kingdom. And some musicians actually know how to treat fans who are willing to be honest with them.

2) Grandma was FINALLY discharged from Home Health Services today so I don't have to be over there all the time. She still has some very noticeable cognitive issues and I don't know how much longer it's RIGHT to let her live by herself not in a senior living situation...... But, she's healed up back enough to her normal self for me to feel comfortable enough not to be here on call constantly.

After Doug (her pt) left, she and I went to Craftsman for lunch of celebratory brisket sandwiches (and both got the orange rosemary chicken and wild rice soup.

3) After that I ran home to get a coupon I'd forgotten, and it happened to be right as maintenance was replacing the light above my stall in the garage. (it's no longer a flickery pink-purple fluorescent barely hanging onto life -- that was my fault, I got angry and it was already close to dying. It's been purply-pink since before Christmas.)  One of them was the maintenance guy I've talked to and joked with a lot for the last like 7 years or so and so he came up and knocked on my door to ask about the sign on the door on our floor and why the door was propped open. So I invited him in rather than talk in the hall and told him all about the incident(s) with Pamela over the dried mud from a shoe/boot she presumed was animal feces and her tirades about the place being unlivable and my assumption it was going from a house to condos that were once apartments she wasn't used to shared spaces etc. AND how I'd told both her and her husband that those were fire doors and legally they were supposed to be kept shut except while moving things in/out for safety.  So he took it down, said CMA maintenance official was that it was to be shut for fire safety and if they wanted it propped open or a sign put up, they needed to contact CMA maintenance properly.

I never did get around to sending that email, but I'm happier having told someone I have a good relationship with in person rather than having it in writing with people I don't know at all.

4) When I got to work, my new phone case was in (I FINALLY replaced my extraordinarily beat up old dreamcatcher one) and it makes me ridiculously happy!!!! it's teal with tree branches of lightly pink cherry blossoms on it! It's the one I almost ordered last time, lol.

5) I got angry that the snow was barely gonna miss us and we were going to get rain then maybe an inch of snow. Then most of Weds afternoon/night I slept through the shifting pressures of migraine inducing before these storms so my subconscious had the reins of, well, all my gifts....I woke up to winter storm watch/warning and ever increasing amounts of snow. Currently like freezing rain and up to 5" of snow for Friday night and then 6-11" of snow (with 40mph wind gusts) across Saturday afternoon/night. Whoops. Sorry not sorry -- I'm fucking fed up with so much of my winter not having fucking snow on the ground...... I intend to hermit at home and have a fire in the fireplace and read and clean and do laundry and cook something tasty and enjoy my winter wonderland ice storm I summoned.

6) tonight I told Miche & Jon that grandma was done with all her pt appointments, so I could do late February or not til April. Jon found me a ridiculous deal (via Madison even) so I now ahve my tickets to be in Seattle (well, Kirkland) from Feb. 18-Mar. 3. I don't yet know if I'm ACTUALLY going to Bellevue Bluegrass fest and/or Portland We Banjo 3 show with Nancy (she put me in her calendar for it, but that was back in Oct and we haven't talked since -- I need to double check with her) but I will be right out there while they're playing out there. Soooooo.... yeah.....

I'll be home for Valentine's Day (though all my plans are symphony with my 2 symphony friends I buy season tickets with) but if you were hoping to have me during  end of February for any reason, you'll have to come to Seattle area AND convince my very stubborn and adores me 4 year old Scorpio nephew (and 1.5 year old Leo niece) that you have a good right to borrow me during the short time they get Aunt Dani.It's doable. But you'll have to be very convincing. Maybe teach him how to play guitar or something. (He's FASCINATED by guitars has wanted to learn for a year or two now -- but not a metal guitar, a REAL guitar, a wooden guitar.)

Also. I don't intend to have a car at my disposal.

7) I read the Joyce Carol Oates book BEASTS tonight. It was the ickiest creeps under the skin makes you feel like scrubbing your soul book I've read since reading Chuck Pahlaniuk's Haunted. But I loved the ending.  But ugh. eww.