Rainy Days & Fridays…

Angela

Nov 2

Okay, so today is actually Thursday, but it is my work Friday and I am now officially enjoying the start of my weekend. In some ways this was a good work week, while in other ways it was a little tough. A beloved old regular customer, who I haven't more than a couple of times since the start of the pandemic, came in yesterday. I was so excited to see her, but then she told me that her husband passed away just a few weeks ago. She began to tear up, and so did I. I came out from behind the counter to give her a big hug and chat with her about how she is doing. Len wasn't a young many anymore, so his passing shouldn't really be all that surprising but it is. Even now as I type, my eyes are tearing up again. Today I learned that a work partner just lost her young child to cancer, and that breaks my heart all over again. Loss is always hard. While I do not know these people well enough to personally share in their grief and I don't have the experience to truly know what they're going through, my empathic tender heart feels so deeply for them.

There were whispers of rain and possibly snow last night, so I wasn't too surprised to wake up to a steady, dreary rain very early this morning. The temperature has dipped below freezing for the past several days, but last night was just warm enough to keep the rain from turning to ice or snow. One of my biggest dislikes about winter is needing to brush snow off the car or scrape frost from the windows. Actually, brushing snow off the car isn't so bad. It's really scraping the ice that annoys me most. Not all frost is the same, and some is easier to scrape off than others. With an elbow and shoulder that are on and off again bothersome, the scraping effort can actually be a real pain or at least physically awkward. After needing to scrape the windows the past couple of work mornings, I was more than happy to take the rain this morning, even if I might have wished I had worn my contacts instead of my glasses.