Woohoo! I finally got the promotion I’d been waiting for for almost two years! It’s just a title bump (and the associated raise was...5%, so barely more than COLA) but I’d sworn up and down if they didn’t give it to me this year I’d leave. Whew.

I'll keep being patient and doing the right thing, living my life of extreme introversion and masking, often double-masking, when I have to go out, but I sure hope the vaccine goalposts start moving in the right direction, or at least stay still, sometime soon.

ETA Huzzah, meara!

Great news, meara!!!

Congratulations, meara!

Congratulations, meara!!!

Have you filed a claim with the moving company, Toddson? That's so frustrating.

Congratulations, meara!

Yay for the new house, JenP!

Fingers crossed for wonderful offers, Laura!

Now I want Taco Bell.

Congratulations, meara!

I got my first vaccine shot on Saturday. CA has started on educators and I'm teaching and Kristin pointed me at a site to track down vaccinations at Walgreens and I was able to drive up to Lancaster and get one on Saturday. I'm glad to have mine, but it shouldn't take the same type of process as getting a recently released Xbox. Seriously, I got an Xbox Series X for Kristin for Christmas/Birthday and I was just able to do it after months of having trackers running to show exactly when they pop up, and finally I was sitting at my computer when they became available on the Microsoft site for 3 minutes and I snagged one.

For the vaccine there is a site that monitors Walgreens and Rite aid and gives you up to the minute reports of which ones in which zip codes have appointments so that you can log onto the Walgreens site and put in the suitable zip code in order to get an appointment. This is crazypants.

The day I got our appointments, I spent hours refreshing the CVS and HEB sites, along with periodically checking other sites that forced me to go through the whole process each time.

I don't think FL is doing any under 65 people. DH isn't on any wait lists. My sister in FL goes Wednesday for her 1st, and my sister in NY has had both hers. My NY niece and nephew have also had both theirs because she is a teacher and he is EMS. My brother the wacko of course won't get one. Because he does love the conspiracy theory. Sigh.

Laura, did I miss where you all are moving to? Is this your second move in only a few years or am I mid-remembering?

I've owned this house for 22 years, but spent a year or so in Pompano Beach while DH was working on this house. There is little available for sale right in this neighborhood and the potential buyer reached out to me directly although it isn't listed. He and his wife really seemed to like it a lot and I think they are only looking at one other place, which is not as nicely located, but cheaper. So since this is their retirement destination let's hope they thin it is worth the extra $. From my google~fu I am sure they can afford it. And they liked it. So make me an offer I can't refuse already. Wife was clearly ready to be a Floridian as she showed up to view the house in super short cutoffs, and barefoot, he in golf type outfit. They were here for a holiday weekend for her birthday, and house hunting, so I was amused. I didn't tell her she wouldn't love my tile floors so much over time if she goes barefoot.