This is turning into one of those slightly weird weeks.
On the kind-of down-side, the dancer missed her last major Christmas recital rehearsal today because of terrible roads. As the all-day performance (she’s in four concerts, as part of a competitive “touring” dance troupe) is on Saturday, and as there is still last-minute choreography going on, this caused some stress. No worries, I’m sure they’ll all pull it off, seasoned performance veterans that they are! She’ll be learning the missed bits moments before she hits the stage; keeps it interesting!
On the “oh, well, an unexpected day at home” up-side, we were all here together (rare-ish situation lately), so we went out into the snowstorm to hunt down a Christmas tree. Funny how our farm’s private forest of tiny perfect fir trees have grown so dramatically in the twenty-one years since our first expedition up the hill in December, to the point where it’s hard to find something small enough to fit in our low-ceilinged living room!
And on the really down-side, we’ve just found out that our family’s main pay cheque may be seriously disrupted; my husband’s workplace is unexpectedly under immediate strike notice as employee contract negotiations have hit a neither-side-wants-to-budge brick wall. As of December 18th he may have an unanticipated and not particularly well-timed “holiday”. Something we definitely never saw coming!
Fingers crossed that it gets sorted out.
Otherwise, life is pretty good. Just a wee bit surreal, thinking of alternate possibilities and coping strategies in case things do come crashing down, money-wise.
At least the tree is checked off the list!
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So sorry to hear about your husband’s work situation. It is never fun to be under strike notice but this is a particularly awful time of year for it. I’ll keep my fingers crossed for you.
Thank you for the kind words, Claire. I know we’ll be all right; he’s very employable elsewhere even if the worst should happen and it all goes ugly and job action shuts everything down here for any sort of a long term, but we’d be looking at an up-north camp job which he’s feeling a bit too old and settled for at this point in his life. It’s a strange situation which has escalated quickly beyond anyone’s ideas – neither side really wants a strike to happen but the line in the sand has been drawn so ???
Timing is about as bad as it gets, lol! Well, only a few more days & then we’ll know where we’re at. (Hopefully!)