A new kind of crazy.........

Has the craziness of Christmas successfully morphed into the craziness of the mundane, along with the frigid weather of Upstate NY?

My plow guy retired his business this year and I put off dealing with the dilemma until the first real snow fell.  Then I hired a company who I am sure will be wonderful, but I am thinking that I am paying for a whole season of plowing when there will truly be very little to plow.  But who can take that chance, right?

And, I pulled into my garage, lifted the tail gate to my Mazda, took out my groceries and when I clicked the button for the door to retract, well....nothing.  Just nothing.  Not gears grinding.  Not an ineffective hum of the motor.  Just nothing.  Now I can raise and lower the door manually - which I don't want to do and that is the reason I had a garage door opener installed....ergo, I can use the garage which I have been since this seasonal yet cold weather hit, but.......really?  I have to find someone to look at this?

The final carton of basic boxes and wrappng paper is ready to put on the shelf, and the tree is dismantled.  I like to keep my snowmen decorations up for a while, but I'm getting tired of the whole thing.

I am supposed to submit my plans for vacation for 2016.  Who can think of vacation?  Well, I know, we are all thinking of vacation but not the particulars.  Since I rarely do the same thing year after year this requires that I actually have an idea of what I want to do.  Nada.  Nothing.  Going to New Orleans to sit in the Churchwide Assembly for 6 days, so I'm tacking a few days onto the front of that, but beyond that and my usual Thanksgiving stuff, I don't know.

And taxes.  Since I am clergy and we fall into a strange category in the tax code, I am (believe it or not) considered 'self-employed' which requires a different level of bookkeeping and receipt keeping and adding up of figures to send to my accountant.  That is in progress.

And I turn 65 in February (shall we pause here for a deep breath and amazement that someone who looks so young could really be applying for Medicare......)  Finally made myself read all the stuff that my health provider sent and with trepidation went on the Social Security website to register, and....it took 5 minutes of very easy questions.  Of course I don't understand it all, but at least the first steps are done.

And the horrific cold I had through the first half of December morphed into a horrendous cold for my daughter living with me and I'm not sure I am completely over it all....

The craziness of the mundane is fully upon me.

I am ever so thankful that Jesus' love can cover even all the above added to my complaining.  I am ever so thankful that even the mundane is held in the hands of God.